Article: Think about which environmental factors and study skills help you retain information and do your best on exams. Decide whether you prefer to work in a quiet space by yourself or if a public place like a library or coffee shop helps keep you on task. Reflect on whether you remember facts better when for you to review your own lecture notes or when you skim the textbook and old class assignments. Figure out what combination of factors will bring out your most positive, productive, and focused self so you can implement this system into all future study sessions. Think back to past study sessions that went especially well, and others that didn't go well at all, to assess which factors help and hinder your progress. If you're able to develop a personalized study system, studying will be a lot less stressful for you. Studying day after day can be grueling, but rather than fixating on the negatives, get yourself in a positive frame of mind by visualizing all the good that your hard work will bring. Imagine yourself getting a good score on a test, receiving praise from your teacher, or feeling proud of your end-of-term grades. Let these good feelings wash over you as you reframe your perspective on studying. If you're hoping to attend college or earn a scholarship, think about how each small study session will get you 1 step closer to your dreams. Use your long-term goals as motivation to keep pushing yourself. Set concrete goals for your study session. Divide your larger studying goals into small, manageable steps. Identify specific, achievable goals that you can work on one at a time. This way, you can make good progress and achieving each goal will make you feel accomplished at the end of your study session. It's easy to get overwhelmed by a huge amount of homework and seemingly endless assignments. But rather than worrying, "How will I ever finish this assignment?" ask yourself, "How much of this assignment can I accomplish in 2 hours?" Instead of trying to read a whole book in 1 sitting, set a goal to read 1 chapter or 50 pages at a time. When prepping for a test, review your lecture notes from just the first week of the semester today, then focus your notes from the second week tomorrow. Depending on how much resistance you're experiencing, or how tough your subjects are, you can select an ordering system that lessens the stress and enables you to keep moving forward. Try working from the shortest to the most time-intensive task, work from easiest project to the hardest, or start by tackling the most difficult assignment first so things get easier as you go along. Or attack your subjects in order of your class schedule. If you've selected a logical system to follow, it will help reduce decision fatigue and you'll find it easier to shift from one task to the next. Once you've broken down your study load into bite-sized goals, it's time to fit them into a schedule that works for you. Those who prefer a more rigid schedule can assign a start and end time to each task. But those who prefer having some flexibility might want to budget out a time limit for each activity and determine the order based on how they're feeling. Whichever method you choose, reserve a specific block of time each day for studying. Telling yourself, "I'll have to study sometime this week" will encourage procrastination, but "I'm going to study from 6 PM to 9 PM on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday" will help you stick to your plan. Try sticking to a regular schedule, but feel free to break your usual routine if you need to shake things up. For instance, get a good night's sleep and set your alarm for 5:00 AM to study on Sunday morning. It might be easier to get up and get started right away since you've planned it in advance. The more specific and intentional you can be about scheduling out your study tasks, the more success you'll have with your studies and time management.

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Assess which study habits bring you the most success. Focus on your long-term goals and what you'll achieve by studying. Break down your studying into smaller tasks or goals. Order your tasks from easiest-to-hardest or shortest-to-longest. Assign each task a time limit or a slot in your schedule.