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Link to 101 Study Tips

Some of these tips contradict the past 101 tips, be willing to change your study routine, it might be more successful for you

If you have to live through an all nighter then play music that keeps you awake, house music is good at this

Only use other peoples notes as a reference for yours, make your own notes

Making flashcards for your entire course at the end of the year, trust me it helps

Or a word document

If you make a word document don’t send any to your classmates until you have finished them all, because they definitely will ask you for notes

Coming up to exams set a number of hours you are studying so there’s a concrete goal

Or if you revise subject by subject make sure these goals are concrete

Actively focus on each word as you read

Don’t lose this focus

When all else fails with remembering statistics, just write them out on a whiteboard until you remember them

This goes for sequences as well, I don’t know how else you could remember the Ornithine Cycle

Organise your notes by class, keep them clearly separate

The same goes for subjects, if it’s a large amount of notes for your subject, have a notebook for each topic area or module

If it’s a shorter subject, separate your book with bookmarks

When revising at the end of the year, go through your notebook and put tabs on the pages of things you don’t understand as much

Go through these tabs first, or focus on them more heavily, whilst covering everything else

If you can’t keep up an aesthetic bullet journal have a cute one you do at the end of the day and then your schedule journal that’s more plain or on your phone

Go back and do your highlighting or decoration of notes the day after

Set up some general goals at the start of each term of month

Write out things that will make you feel better and motivate you in your folder or somewhere you can get them

Look for failures by ‘perfect’ students, don’t judge them for it, just remember everyone fails sometimes

Try and keep your study space bright

A lot of people find it encouraging to have a pretty study space

Exercise a little in your study breaks

Or socialise, it helps

Read a bit of a book or long publication every day to keep your reading skills sharp

Learn to appreciate subjects that are not yours

Think of what you’re learning outside of your subject, say you’re studying Climate Change, look at things other than what’s specified in your course

Print out articles or journals you need to read

Or otherwise store them in a folder on your phone or computer

Bring your food with you when you’re studying

But don’t eat it straight away as you’ll have no food

Clear your study space before every studying session

The night before you go into school or college, plan what studying you’ll do with your library or free time

Put things that need resources in college first

Reducing the amount of books you need to bring in is also a factor, there’s no point bringing in your massive English Lit folder when you could do your Maths that you have a lesson for anyway

If you don’t work well at home, search for library spaces for as many hours of the day and days of the week as possible

Don’t starve yourself of things you like or want to do. If you just want to stalk Instagram then plan this to be in your break

Put your phone on silent and turn it upside down if you don’t want to turn it off

Set yourself a goal to take studyblr pictures, the pressure of getting a picture has made me study every day last year, even though I always got too embarrassed to take any

Studying outside is refreshing if you can put up with the bugs

It’s also usually quieter than inside spaces if you’re struggling

If comfort helps you wear something comfy

If looking good gives you confidence, then do that. Also, winged eyeliner has a magical ability to make something casual or weird into ‘a look’

Always have tissues in your bag

If carrying several binders is too much, have one binder that you take out and keep the others at home

Power naps are possible and great if you have the willpower

If you can, scan relevant articles to your subject and put them into your folder with your notes

Look for cheap notebooks for your lecture notes, you’ll probably bin them anyway

Aim to have all the work that was set that week done by the weekend

Or alternatively, by the Friday night so you can go out and get hammered without regrets

If you catch yourself procrastinating stop whatever you’re doing, even if it was unfinished. A few minutes to finish will become hours

Use textbooks from different exam boards to yours to get a fuller picture

Buy one of those large bags of pens, somehow they all disappear during the year

Work out how many hours you should and could be doing a week. 

Treat studying like your job, do as many hours you would do if you were working

Work out if breaks for several hours a day or a whole day off is a better type of rest for you

For group projects take the lead straight away if no one else does

Have a group discussion or document, put things onto it often, keep bugging people until they do something. 

Try to understand where everyone else is coming from on the group projects

And don’t do everything. If you ask someone to do something, don’t go and do it for them after they’ve done it.

Group chats for your classes can also be good. Sometimes it is just banter but a lot of good resources can also be shared

Honestly use your student support services as much as possible

Ignore that they are sometimes patronising, if you stop asking for their help then it might be harder to get when you really need it. 

Start studying as soon as you get home. 

When scheduling, schedule in the stuff you like doing and do for a rest as well

Do as few hours at work as you can. Get enough money to live comfortably, but be willing to turn down overtime if you’re busy studying

Don’t get so drunk that you can’t work the next day if you really need to. 

Be realistic about how much you’re doing. Don’t underestimate it, it only stresses you out more. 

Sign up to sites that are there to help students with studying, money, jobs, the next step, etc. 

Ask for student discount everywhere. Most places just need a photo and expiry dates for it to be valid. 

Ask people on tumblr for advice. 

Scratch that, ask lots of people on tumblr for advice, as they will all give you different options and advice, so you can try out several things

Learn touch-typing. Or at least learn part of it. Even if you don’t learn everything, you’ll probably incorporate into your typing and be faster. 

Do the assigned reading, but not the extra reading. Unless you have a lot of time to do so. 

Don’t study too much on the day of your exam. Save your energy. 

Always look for the less time consuming and efficient method

Learn from your failures and identify what went wrong

But also remember what you learnt from your failures, how you were improved by it

If you get rejected by your dream university, don’t let this stop you studying, get on with it and get the best thing possible for you

Do your referencing as you go, it saves a lot of time

Check if your resources are reliable, credible publishers, medical organisations and universities often are most reliable

Use sticky notes to highlight the most important facts in your notes

Sticky notes are also good for taking notes inside of a textbook

Keep all your flashcards in one place so they don’t get everywhere

If you’re not sure of an answer in a test then go for your gut feeling

Read everything in your test through twice

When choosing essay questions, write a short plan for each and decide which one is best

Exercise in the mornings to wake you up, even if this is just walking to somewhere

Change up your study space if you’ve been studying in the same spot in the library for 7 hours, go to a different desk

Space out when you schedule your working enough that you don’t get burnt out from doing 4 essays in two days

When you schedule to do something, finish it. Don’t leave that unfinished

Do your work before you do your leisure, if you can

Don’t listen too much to what people who aren’t studying your subject are saying. Often they are just making it up from their presumptions

But do listen to people who would know, your tutors, lecturers, teachers, older students. 

Keep your revision notes from exams and look over them before term starts again in holidays

Start doing this a few weeks before, you can’t do it all the night before

Drink plenty of water so you don’t get dehydrated. Have a bottle so you don’t have to pay for it while you’re out

Always keep the next step in mind when you’re working, what will be happening in a year, two years?

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