. Time management is key to studying for a test or tests. If you plan out your time, you'll feel less rushed and hurried. You'd be able to avoid a Sunday night, 3 AM cram session. Plan out the week before the test to use your time most effectively. Analyse how many things you have to study and try to calculate how much you have to study each day/week to cover everything. You can quickly test how long it takes you study one page and calculate the amount of time you need to study everything afterwards. Try to study over the course of a week, not just one night. Revisiting the information moves it from short-term memory (the kind that disappears almost immediately) to long-term memory, where you can retrieve it for later. Ideally, take a look at the content a little bit every day. If you start on top of things, you'll never have to worry about catching up. Read the textbook assignments, do the homework, and go to class. The studying you do on your own time will then be that much easier. Organize a notebook and folder for the class. Keep all your papers together when you need to pull them out three months later. Keep your syllabus accessible to use it as a rough outline for the class. Don't forget to keep up the studying on a daily basis, don't leave it for the last minute! what things she/he want you to study. Remember, any little detail on a test can become a question! . Alright, so we already covered how you should sleep instead of changing your normal routine to wake up early to study because it can ruin your REM cycles. Get as close to 8 hours as possible. Your grades (and parents) will thank you for it. Before you go to bed , hit the hardest concepts. Then when you do hit the hay, your brain has hours and hours to let it sink in. The fluff can be tackled mid-afternoon -- let the difficult stuff stew overnight for maximum retention. . Studies show that students who eat breakfast before a test do better consistently. But you want to keep it to something light and healthy -- focusing on that lump of eggs, bacon, and cheese in your stomach won't do you any favors. Stick to fruits, veggies, whole grains, and light dairy products. In fact, research says that your diet the week before the test matters, too! Students that were placed on a high-fat, high-carb diet did worse than those loading up on fruits, veggies, and complex, whole grains. Do yourself, your body, and your mind a favor by eating right. By eating right, you can get the right nutrients that your body needs, and you will be able to retain information better. . Studying the night before the test will make it even more difficult -- you'll be sleep deprived, groggy, and your mind will not be firing on all pistons. You don't want to gather heaps of information in one night; it's impossible to absorb that much info at once. Straight up, you'll do worse. If you don't see the logic, believe the science. Studies show that late-night crammers get average grades. If you're looking for a C, cram away. But if you're looking for something a bit better, avoid it. In the morning, your mind is fresh and clear. Though you wouldn't think it works this way (so simple!), your mind seems to have more room to absorb information right when you wake up. At night, your brain secretes chemicals to cement the information into your memory, so studying right before bed (and when you wake up) is a safe bet. When you know the patterns of your brain, you can take advantage of them! Research shows that the closer the information is taken in relative to sleep, the more it'll stay in. So review right before bed! What's more, it also shows that getting a good night's rest leads to greater levels of retention. Remember how we said don't cram? There you go.
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One-sentence summary -- Make a study schedule Start as soon as possible. Ask your teacher Get some sleep Make time for breakfast Avoid the last minute cram session Study right after waking and just before bed.

Private messages, pictures, texts, and other content aren't truly private. Once they're out there, a bully could get hold of a copy and use it to harm you. It's best not to post anything inappropriate, embarrassing, or overly personal online. Try the "grandma test" as a rule of thumb: before sharing anything online, ask yourself if you would also show it to you grandmother. If not, it's probably best to keep it private. Most social networking sites and similar services allow you to control who sees what you post online. For instance, you can make your profile and posts private, so that only followers you accept can see your content. Making your accounts private will limit outsiders from accessing your information, but won't keep it totally secure. It's easy to connect with lots of people online through social networking sites and in other ways. If you keep your online circles limited to people you know and trust, however, you are more likely to avoid being cyberbullied. You don't have to accept friend requests, messages, invitations, etc. from people you don't know or trust. If any of your online friends/followers begin to show bullying behavior online, you can defriend or stop following them right away. If you make it easy for someone to hijack your information, social media accounts, or devices, this could lead to problems. If a bully is able to log in to your social media accounts, for instance, they could post mean things under your name or harass your friends. To prevent this, do things like: Don't write passwords down, store them in your phone, or share them with anyone else. Change your passwords regularly. Choose passwords that are difficult to guess. Be careful not to let a would-be bully get access to your files or accounts and use that information to harass you. For instance, log out completely whenever you use a public or shared computer. Likewise, don't let anyone you don't know or trust use your personal devices.
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One-sentence summary -- Don't post anything online you want to keep private. Make use of privacy settings on social media. Limit your online friends. Protect your passwords. Limit access to your devices and accounts.

There is some evidence that adding heat to your lower back can help relieve pain there,as heat can release tension in muscles. To use your heating pad for this simply lay it on your lower back, or the part of your back which is sore. Leave it there for fifteen to twenty minutes. Heating pads can also be used for headaches and migraines in a similar way as for back pain. The heat relaxes tense muscles which can ease the pain in your head which is caused by a headache or migraine. Just place the pad on your head or neck to feel the benefits. As the heat from your heating pad relaxes muscles, you can use to it to relieve pain anywhere on your body that you feel discomfort or aching. Pads like this are often used to ease tense neck and shoulder muscles as well as back pain. You can also use the same heating pad as a cold press, simply by cooling it in the freezer first. There is less proof that cold will be as effective for lower back pain as heat will be. If you are using a plastic bag, be sure to wrap it in a towel before applying it to your skin.
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Use it for lower back pain. Use it for headaches. Use your heating pad for other aches and pains. Consider using it as a cold press.