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10 Tips To Get Better Grades
3 min readMar 17, 2022
- Schedule Shorter Sessions — Looking at your schedule and seeing the 6 hour study session would demotivate anyone. 6 hours of the same thing, that isn’t fun… who would willingly do that? If you plan it in 15 minute intervals instead you can change them up. First is Ch. 1, then maybe answering some questions, then going over your notes, then a short 15 minute break, followed by Ch. 2…. This will make the day seem way more interesting and you will get a lot more study time in, instead of wasting it staring out the window hoping that time would pass faster.
- Take More Breaks — 45 seconds — 1 minute. Drop your pen, lean back in your chair, close your eyes and breathe a couple deep breaths. Let your mind wander off to anything but school and just take a moment of silence for yourself. Then get back more energetic than you were before and nail the next 15 minutes of your study session!
- Write Down Things That Rob You Of Focus — While you have to do grocery shopping, have your sport tonight and want to play video games, you cannot do it now. Write down when you will do it, set a time for when you will go, when you will take the break for whatever you need, and whenever you think about it again just refer to what you wrote down. The thoughts will stop bothering you.
- Speedread Texts — Most Textbooks have the most important information around the key…
