5fast Tips: How to Perform Better on Exams - without (more) study
Channel: begin2dig
Date: 2016-05-16

Here's five fast science-tested tips GUARANTEED to improve your exam performance - effortlessly. The easiest way  to perform better on exams - that will make your studying more effective and efficient - is to focus not just on the brain, but on the rest of the body that works with the brain. These five tips about 
 
1. Learn one simple thing you can do to improve exam performance by 2-10%
2. Find out how your heart rate before your exam can improve your performance in your exams
3. Learn this simple test if you got enough sleep for maximum recall 
4. Learn What food in the morning is guaranteed to keep your brain at prime functioning throughout the afternoon
5.Find out how your eyes and light will help manage your stress

Here's some references used in the above video

about blueberries (and flavonoids)
http://www.reading.ac.uk/food/about/news/foodnut-news-2009-07.aspx

CHEAP TIP: Frozen blueberries are an awesome, cost effective way, to have mega berries around and get all the goodness of fresh (year round) without the cost of fresh - especially when out of season.

about sleep deprivation and exam performance
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07448489709595597
this is just one example 
what’s great is that folks sleep deprived perform significantly worse BUT think they’ve done significantly better.

water in exams 
http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1013601

elevated heart rate before exams
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24911975
this is just ONE example article on this topic.
The cool trend is the fitter you are over time, the better your cognitive performance.

on syncing your body clocks with sunlight and the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) (through the eye)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2691600/

BONUS: - how to get to sleep at night even easier - use sun glasses at night rather than during the day - here's why/how
http://www.slideshare.net/mcphoo/use-light-creativity-for-free-tip-one


all the best on your exams. 
mc
@mcphoo