Tip 1: organizing
My first tip is an easy one make a planner and first off write down when your finals are and then start planning your study periods and also make time for some breaks.
Tip 2: eat
The second tip is one that we all love to do: eat. There are some foods that are great for your brain and improve your brain to remember I prefer chocolate, blue berries and nuts. The chocolate isn't healty but stimulates some parts of your brain to remember and the rest is just healthy for your body and mind. And antother thing to do whilest studying is chew some chewing gum in a specific flavour and right before your examen chew the same flavor, your brain then associates that flavor with the things you learned and makes you remember them better.
Tip 3: study place
The third tip is to find a good study place. Personally I prefer to study in my living room, I know that there are a lot of distractions there but I give myself a goal, like a specific chapter I need to get done before I take a break and my parents know that so they can tell me to stay focused. And to get away from those distractions I let play some music that helps me calm down and stay focused.
Tip 4: breaks
The fourth one is one we all look forward to once we start studying, it's taking a break. I plan my breaks every half hour, and don't study for longer than 50 minutes because our brain can't focus at one thing for more than an hour (that's also why the periods at school are only 50 minutes (well at least where I live)). When you take a break go outside, if you have a pool take a swim, go for a walk, let your dog out if you have one, do the dishes (if you don't have a dishwasher like me) so something completely else than what you were working on.
Tip 5: exercise
If you have an exam coming up with a lot of exercises, you should write down exercises from your textbook and remake them, this is my ultimate tip, if I wouldn't do this I would never get trough my accountancy, maths or informatics. The day before my informatics exam I am sitting the whole afternoon behind my computer remaking old exercices from the begining of the schoolyear 'cause they still ask those things on your final exams.
Tip 6: the internet
oh yes you read it correctly, use the internet! You can use the site 'Quizlet' which is an amazing site where you can create online flashcards and you can learn everything by playing games, and making online tests, it just a lot of fun and I use it a lot for my tests and it very handy if you have a big vocabulary test coming up. And another tip is if you need to look something up for your finals don't use the usual Google but use Google schoolar, it will give you more internet pages used for students and give you pages with an easy explanation.
Tip 7: notes
Of course you can not get trough finals in a decent way if you didn't take notes during the school year. Of course you can make copies of people that did took notes but not everyone wants to lend there notes so take notes yourself! And another thing HIGHLIGHT the most important things, I need to admit I did sometimes highlight a complete page, but seriously not the best idea. You just need to highlight the most important things like defenitions, formula's etc.
Tip 8: music
The most people say that it's not good to listen to music whilest you're studying,but that's wrong. It just depends on what kind of music you're listening. It's indeed not good to listen to music with lyrics if you're studying especially when you're studying for your English, French, Spanish or whatever languauge that you learn exam. My tip is to go to Study Music Project for music to listen to whilest you're studying.
I hope you find my tips usefull!
Tip 3: study place
The third tip is to find a good study place. Personally I prefer to study in my living room, I know that there are a lot of distractions there but I give myself a goal, like a specific chapter I need to get done before I take a break and my parents know that so they can tell me to stay focused. And to get away from those distractions I let play some music that helps me calm down and stay focused.
Tip 4: breaks
The fourth one is one we all look forward to once we start studying, it's taking a break. I plan my breaks every half hour, and don't study for longer than 50 minutes because our brain can't focus at one thing for more than an hour (that's also why the periods at school are only 50 minutes (well at least where I live)). When you take a break go outside, if you have a pool take a swim, go for a walk, let your dog out if you have one, do the dishes (if you don't have a dishwasher like me) so something completely else than what you were working on.
Tip 5: exercise
If you have an exam coming up with a lot of exercises, you should write down exercises from your textbook and remake them, this is my ultimate tip, if I wouldn't do this I would never get trough my accountancy, maths or informatics. The day before my informatics exam I am sitting the whole afternoon behind my computer remaking old exercices from the begining of the schoolyear 'cause they still ask those things on your final exams.
Tip 6: the internet
oh yes you read it correctly, use the internet! You can use the site 'Quizlet' which is an amazing site where you can create online flashcards and you can learn everything by playing games, and making online tests, it just a lot of fun and I use it a lot for my tests and it very handy if you have a big vocabulary test coming up. And another tip is if you need to look something up for your finals don't use the usual Google but use Google schoolar, it will give you more internet pages used for students and give you pages with an easy explanation.
Tip 7: notes
Of course you can not get trough finals in a decent way if you didn't take notes during the school year. Of course you can make copies of people that did took notes but not everyone wants to lend there notes so take notes yourself! And another thing HIGHLIGHT the most important things, I need to admit I did sometimes highlight a complete page, but seriously not the best idea. You just need to highlight the most important things like defenitions, formula's etc.
Tip 8: music
The most people say that it's not good to listen to music whilest you're studying,but that's wrong. It just depends on what kind of music you're listening. It's indeed not good to listen to music with lyrics if you're studying especially when you're studying for your English, French, Spanish or whatever languauge that you learn exam. My tip is to go to Study Music Project for music to listen to whilest you're studying.
I hope you find my tips usefull!
