Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog! This is my first actual blog post so yay! Today I decided to show you some tips to help you with your exams. My exams are starting this Tuesday (17/05) and we have a week off to study. So these are some tips I actually use while studying for my exams and I hope they help you too!
Before you start doing anything, you'll have to plan your studying schedule. It will be less stressful if you know that you have time to study and that you won't have to do that the night before. Try and plan studying for your subject a couple of days before, and have one more extra day just to revise everything you studied those days.
Find a comfortable space.
Next, you have to find your studying spot. Sometimes your desk is not the most comfortable place for you to study on. So, some alternatives I suggest are your bed or throwing some pillows on the floor to sit on. I personally study on a big pouf that I've got. But honestly, it's up to you.
Get away from any destruction.
I don't know about you, but I find this the most difficult part of the whole "studying for exams" thing. What you can do is mute your phone, log off your accounts or even delete the applications. Though, it will be a lot of work to download them all back, so I don't really suggest that last one. You can give it to your parents and tell them not to give it back to you for another hour or something. Just try to block everything that can destruct you.
A lot of times, books have a lot of extra information you probably don't need to know for your exam. So the best thing to do is underline the things you have to learn. Personally speaking, I vary my ways of underlining, depending on what is important for me to learn. I underline with a highlighter all of the important things whilst I underline with pencil the less important ones. I also do a little wave under all the examples and the dates and I circle the things that I need to know the definition of. Afterwards, you can also underline with markers of different colours the things you know really well, things that confuse you still and things like that.
For any definitions you have to study, even if those are word or science definitions, you should make flash cards to help you with studying. Write the word in the one side and the definition on the other.
You have to let your mind breathe a little bit. Have 2-minute or 5-minute breaks once in a while to have a snack and drink something. Just don't start doing something during the break that is going to make it longer, so I'd suggest to not use your phone during the break, but it's up to you.
Have a snack and a glass of water near you.
In case you don't want to waste any time, you can have your favourite snack near you. Either that's some fruit or potato chips. Also, it's important for you to stay hydrated, so it would be good if you had a glass of water as well.
The morning before you take your exam, spend some time revising what you've learnt. If you're planning to study chapters you hadn't already studied, that will be difficult, but you can do it. Still, it will be much more relieving if you know that you have finished with studying, so that's one of the reasons managing your time is important.
I really hope you enjoyed this post, and I hope I have helped you! Tweet me which is your first exam and also tweet me if you have anymore tips!
Bye and see you soon!
p.s. I might be uploading every Sunday so I can have a specific schedule, what do you think?
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