It is only natural for high school students to think about the future, especially those high school students that are appearing for an exam as competitive as the JEE mains.

As important as planning for the future may be, it is crucial to do this with a limit and in a way that it doesn’t do...

I will tell you two approaches for this, here is the 1st one:

• You can decide and customize the breaks you take according to how you study.
• You can study and divide your time in blocks of say, an hour or 45 minutes.
• After each of these blocks, take a break.

You can do this is two ways:

• Speak to a mentor – could be your parents, brother or sister, friends, teachers!
• Read motivational quotes – Motivational quotes simply work when you are running low on your motivation levels.

Don’t let studies overshadow your hobbies and extra – curricular activities. Since your study time is yours to personalize, you can break the time in 2 – 5 hour slots and go running in the evening or play your favorite sport, if that’s your thing.

If you plan on dedicating more than ten hours for serious studying daily, you will often find that eating will slip off your radar.

Studying such long hours requires mental stamina and for this, getting the right amount of nutrition at the right intervals is essential and so is stay...