Next, develop a plan to spend quality time on your priorities. You need to build a realistic time schedule that budgets time for attending classes, studying, reviewing, and other assignments. Get to know your prime working times. If you can only read effectively for 30 minutes, don t try to schedule an hour of reading in which the last 30 minutes is wasted. Finally, you must make a commitment to stick to your time schedule.
Many students employ the cramming method of studying for exams.
They wait until the last night or two before the big test and then stay up until 2 a.m. studying. There are several problems with this method. First, by cramming at the last minute you are likely to feel exhausted and not at your sharpest for the test. In your memory chapter, you will learn about Hermann Ebbinghaus, a scientist who used himself as a memory subject. He found that practicing a list of information once a day for several days resulted in better memory than practicing a list of information in one long session.