20 Top Studying Tips

**shining_angel** · #1 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 12:57 PM

Found this while I was tidying my room up, something my teacher gave me long time ago

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1. Our brain works better in the morning than at night - wake up early and start revising.

2. Pray when you wake, before you study and give thanks to God for giving you discipline and concentration to study [Obviously don't have to do if you're not a Christian]

3. Set a study plan or a daily outline. Don't forget your breaks and meals!

4. Find a comfy pen to use for studying and exam time. Hand cramp = not good

5. Find a quiet place to study without distractions.

6. Study a mixture of the things you know and things you don't. Don't do all the hard subjects all at once.

7. Don't be afraid to ask for help from your family and friends coz God has given people in your life for a reason.

8. Make studying notes you understand. Learn and write as you go along.

9. FOCUS. Don't make pointless notes.

10. Suss out what you are meant to study - check past papers and your syllabus.

11. Don't overdo the studying. Recharge your batteries - take breaks!

12. Variety beats boredom. Use different colored pens if you are creative.

13. Drink plenty of water. Your head works better when if it's not dehydrated.

14. Read your notes out loud or sing if you want - it's one way of getting them to register

15. Get your beauty sleep! You don't want to fall asleep on your exam paper do you?

16. Pray for guidance and strength before the exam.

17. Be confident, place all your worries on God

18. Bring spare pens, pencils and equipment. You never know what may happen.

19. Don't w a f f l e - keep to the point of the Qs!

20. And remember: Check through your answers before the end of the exam.

Good luck!

**asdfghjkl** · #2 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 04:11 PM

Thanks SA, but i broke heaps of the rules.
I dnt think anybody follows rule 1??

**shining_angel** · #3 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 05:56 PM

^ Yeah I agree that no one really follows the first rule, but let's just say it's better to study early than to study at like midnight

**Sacreble** · #4 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 05:59 PM

lol I know all of those tip long ago already..I never follow them except the first one. I study in the morning because I know I have good memory in the morning

but I forget as learn.

**kittycat1314** · #5 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 08:23 PM

LMoa! I broke most of them already, especially numba 1 cause in the morning my brain is at its worst. I can't do anything

**hyorin** · #6 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 11:16 PM

#1 is so true... i was doing practise questions late at night and i was always getting the wrong answer but when i wake up and tried the questions again i got the right answers =o

#13... my teacher told us that in this course to how to get good marks.. she also said that you need at least 7 and 1/2 hours of sleep to be awake for the whole day

**Aeris** · #7 (**permalink**) 12-02-2007, 05:01 AM

I agree with most of your tips, especially waking up early to study, but not the religious ones.

**Sacreble** · #8 (**permalink**) 12-02-2007, 04:31 PM

LOL..I must comment that I'm the living material that proves that number 1 is working. Today at chinese class we had a writing/speling test... I got a few wrong, but I studied ONCE and that was in the morning. The girl that I have chinese class wish had 2 wrong but she studied over 10 times

**Kyo** · #9 (**permalink**) 12-02-2007, 09:16 PM

A lot of those points comes down to time management. It takes a lot of discipline to be able to do it. In regards to #5 and another thread in the education sub-forum, I'd like to add that studying in the library is a great place. It's free from distraction and has a studious environment.

The first thing you should do on an exam is to quickly skim over all the questions and get an idea of which questions u can and can't do, and how long it will take to do each question. It's easier than it sounds. When you read the question you'll either think "hey, I've done this in the review/assignment/practice exam" or "this looks familiar I can probably figure this out with a bit of thinking" or @@. Also, by having gone through the questions, your mind will begin subconsciously working on them so when you do get back to them, you may have more ideas. Try to do the ones you can do quickly first.

In regards to the last point about checking your questions over after an exam, this isn't always possible. Sometimes you don't have enough times, other times the exam is intentionally longer than can be completed within the time limit. In those cases, you don't have time to be second guessing yourself. Just go with your first instinct and proceed.

Finally, always bring a bottle of water, extra pens/pencils, and your student ID to an exam.