Useful Study Tips You Didn't Think Of!

Tips

• Keep a water bottle/snack/both near your study desk or where ever you choose to study so that you don't have to keep getting up every time you are thirsty and/or hungry. This will just disrupt your flow and concentration and you probably don't want that to happen if you want to remember what you read.
• If you have trouble concentrating for a long duration, try out the Pomodoro Technique, click here to go to the post on my other blog about the technique if you don't know what the Pomodoro Technique is. Personally, however, the Pomodoro technique didn't quite do the thing for me, click here to see what I thought were the pros and cons of the technique and why the technique may not be for everyone.
• Make your own notes if you have the time to do so! Writing your own notes will help you understand better and remember better compared to just reading online notes or someone else's notes.
• Make your notes neat and clear so that when you are revising, you actually feel like studying.

And finally, the biggest lesson I've learnt, is that if you are unsure whether something will appear on your exam, do it! Most of the time, something related to what you thought could be unimportant, will come! There is nothing as worse as the feeling that you could've just spent another minute reading the text but didn't do so and lost a mark or more on your test. Unless you have a very straightforward syllabus, you should definitely listen to this tip! (Also note that the syllabus may be straightforward but it may not mention every single detail you need to know in a concept, so learning a little extra, even if not helpful, won't hurt!