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Cramming sis terribly inefficient; four hours of cramming is worse than four hours of study spread out over several weeks or months. This is how memory works in general; we want information to stay in our long-term memory since retrieving it will be much simpler than if we store it in our short term memory
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how to prepare well for exams or in general learn effectively is something nobody teaches us in school or university. Try tactics such as Active Recall and spaced repetition. These tactics can effectively free up a large amount of your time.
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There is a belief that because studying is so difficult and stressful, you think you need three hours each night to unwind and that time must be spent watching TV and browsing Instagram because that is what you count as your "Self care time." This belief is valid, but it's also acceptable to experiment a little and to raise doubts about your beliefs regarding how much quick self-care you actually require. What i am trying to say in short is try spending 30 minutes less on your self care time and you'll see a difference.
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How would you prefer to spend your time if you could design your life anyway you wanted, and then compare that to how you're really spending your time right now. Then ask yourself why your present life isn't like that and what techniques you might take to move your current life closer to your ideal li
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Revision schedules are a complete fiction, they're a terrible waste of time, they're simply a method for us to postpone and procrastinate, they're a way for us to feel good about the fact that we're intending to do all this revision but then when we get down to it, we don't actually follow the revision timetable. Unless you're one of the rare diligent students who adheres to a revision schedule, in which case you probably wouldn't be reading this idea on time management.
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I discovered that anytime I remained up until 2 a.m. to hang out with friends or do anything relaxing, nothing positive came of it. I believe 2 a.m. is the time at which you realize you've had your profound chats from 10 P.m. to 2 a.m.. Nothing nice happens between the hours of 2 and 6 a.m. It basically means you screwed yourself for the following day because you're now burnt out, fatigued, and exhausted, and you have to go to lectures, where you're falling asleep, and it all becomes a nightmare.
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It's exhausting trying to remember all you need to accomplish. Another advantage of utilizing a calendar is that it allows you to be more thoughtful about how you spend your time. Whether you decide that one of the things you want to accomplish at university is participate in an extra project or whatever, you may look at your schedule and see if you actually have the time to do so. It's so easy to beat ourselves up because we believe we should be doing a hundred other things, but if you run your life on a calendar, and your calendar is somewhat accurate.
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you can physically see if you have the time to accomplish this. Let's assume I want to do my sports, my socializing, and my self-care, how many hours are legitimately left in the day to do other things, and if you run your life through a calendar, you'll have a good idea of what that is, and if you don't, you can wind up wasting a lot of time and You can also find yourself beating yourself up and flagellating yourself for not doing enough when, in reality, you're accomplishing a lot but aren't aware of it since you don't use a calendar.
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When you schedule things, you may start using the time you save to accomplish something deliberate rather than something unintentional. In general, scrolling Instagram or Tiktok is an unintentional way to spend time; it's just one of those things you end up doing because you have like 12 minutes and you're like, well, you can't do any work in 12 minutes so you might as well just scroll Instagram that's not like intentional and the thing I always try to tell myself is time is the only thing we have, time is the only resource we can't make more of.
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So why am I wasting my time on this world, my valuable time on this earth, doing something I don't honestly want to do, and so what I discovered is that when I arrange things using a calendar and find these tiny blocks of time, I also try not to squander those minutes.
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I used to beat myself up when I didn't feel productive enough that day or when I didn't get through the subjects on my crappy revision timetable, and I realized that beating myself up doesn't actually change how much work I've managed to do, it doesn't change anything about how effective my studying was, all it does is make me feel bad for the rest of the evening and make me struggle to sleep, and it doesn't even help me like it doesn't even galvanise my motivation to do more work the next day because it's like every day is an individual day and if I did poorly one day,
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I'm not any more likely to do well the next day and so the real hack here is whatever you manage to do, however much studying you manage to do at the end of the day, you can choose to be satisfied with what you have done
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