Learners have the tendency to relax throughout the year. They only start to worry about their studies during exam time. Writing exams can be stressful if you have not studied during the year; you will find yourself overloaded and panicking for each test, having to study late into the night. With precise time management during the school year, you will not only reduce your stress at exam time, but improve your productivity and results!

Time is the most important resource a student has. It is also one of the most wasted resources. You have a limited time to study and you will have to make careful choices about how you spend that time. Avoiding study is easy to do but the guilty feelings you have as you do it will spoil your fun anyway. Rather just prepare a schedule for everything you want and need to do and stick to it. A schedule is a plan for how you intend to use your time. Remember this is your life, your time and your future, so plan carefully.

It is wise to free your schedule as much as you can.  Work fewer hours, and postpone most social events and entertainment.   Save most of your available time for study, but do allocate some time for relaxation too.  Your body and mind will benefit from being given a break from time to time.

You must also bear in mind that there are no miracles for success. Your success depends on your capability and your dedication to hard work.  At the moment, this refers to studying hard.  Later in life, you will use the same methods to succeed in your career.  Learn the correct lessons now, and they will stand you in good stead for the rest of your life

Finally, we believe that the top secret for success is optimism. You must believe in yourself and acknowledge that people are different.  For example, your friend's study techniques might be different from yours, but you have to stick to what suits you.

Thousands of school and college students have followed the SQ3R steps to achieve higher grades with less stress.  Here are the fundamentals of this method. 

Survey - get the best overall picture of what you're going to study BEFORE you study it in any detail.

Question - ask questions for learning. The important things to learn are usually answers to questions.

Read - Read/ research to answer questions you have asked yourself or questions the instructor or author has asked.

Recite - When you recite, you stop reading periodically to recall what you have read.

Review - A review is a survey of what you have covered. It is a review of what you are supposed to accomplish, not what you are going to do. Re-reading is an important part of the review process.

It is wise to buy a notebook for each subject so that as you finish a chapter in class, you immediately write notes and summaries in that book. The classwork will still be fresh in your mind so at exam time you merely have to take the notebook home from school. Write down the key points you learned from each lesson onto a cue card. This helps your mind to retain the day's important facts. On the weekends look over the cue cards. Get your parents or friends to quiz you on them. 

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• Adprima
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• Essortment
• Wisegeek
• E-how

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