Some of these skills are mentioned and briefly discussed here. Organizing Your Time You will have a large amount of work to do and a limited amount of time in which to do it. In this situation, you need to use your time effectively. A good way to do that is to make yourself a weekly study schedule. Allot specified periods of time each day for studying.
Graduate students can assume at least three hours, and perhaps more.
Fill in your study schedule accordingly. Then follow the study schedule. If it appears later that your schedule is out of balance, with too much time devoted to some courses and not enough to others, modify your schedule and adhere to the new one. When you see the length of the reading lists your instructors give you, you will realize that it is not possible to memorize all of your reading materials for the quarter, or even to study them in reasonable depth. That is not what you are expected to do.