Ahmed Shaami
Some of the students breeze through school with minimal effort but for some students, it becomes extremely hard. For them, the one or two hours of studying is not sufficient to advance in their education. But if you know how to study smarter instead of studying harder, you can successfully achieve your success.
Following are the key strategies that are applied by highly effective students that you can also develop to take your grades up, increase your knowledge, and improve your ability to learn and assimilate important information:
Plan your study:
You may have never considered planning your studies but it is the key habit of some of the highly successful students. You must schedule specific times for your study throughout the week and then stick with it.
Study over shorter periods:
For a highly effective student, longer periods of study are not beneficial. It is because they plan to space their work out over shorter periods of time. They also do not try to cram their entire content in one session and have shorter but regular periods of consistent studying.
Keeping the same time:
When you want to study smarter, you must set a specific time for it as well. It is because, like any routine, studying should become your daily routine. Set a specific time to study and it will become your daily habit which will make you mentally and emotionally prepared each time you open your books.
Have a specific goal:
Goals are not just for your career or business; you need to have a specific direction for studying as well. Every period that you dedicate towards studying should have a clear goal in your mind that you want to achieve. Keep a specific work you want to get done with and then proceed with your efforts.
Don’t procrastinate:
It is very easy to procrastinate during your study sessions and puts you off from your track for a longer period of time. It happens mostly when you are not interested in a subject. But it is a very common habit of highly successful students that they don’t procrastinate. It makes studying less effective and nothing gets accomplished.
Begin with the most uninteresting subject:
There can be no running from a subject that is difficult that is why successful students start with the toughest. It is because a difficult subject requires more mental energy which is at its peak when you begin studying. Once you complete the most difficult work, it becomes much easier for the rest of the day and the effectiveness of your academic performance improves.
Review notes:
Before you start your study session, always make sure that you have proper notes to review what your next work is about. Reviewing your notes will help you better understand what your assignment is and the study you are doing is in the right direction.
Don’t get distracted:
Make sure that there are no such things around you that get you distracted such as your mobile phone or a TV. Study at a place where you have no such distractions and have no thoughts that get you distracted from your study session.
