How to Study for Exams? The Powerful Method To Make You a Topper.

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Some students will be studying always, spending long hours, but they never used to get good grades; whereas, some students take less time to study, but they will get very good grades. Today, let us see the mistakes of the students who learn all the time and why they couldn’t get good grades. Also, we will see how a change in the study style will help them get good marks. And also let us see the study habits of the students who get better grades even though they spend less time learning.

Generally, if I ask you what is the toughest part of your student life, then most of the students will say reading the textbook is the most difficult part of the school or college days. Anybody can read a book, but remembering and recalling what you have read is difficult. Especially this is true when it is a very difficult book. This video is about the hard work of trying to concentrate on your reading.

Let us take two students, student – A and student – B. Both are hardworking students, trying their best to excel in their studies. But student B’s study habits are different from student A. While studying, student A does something right that makes him get good grades, whereas student B does some mistakes that make him get lower grades. We need to find out the secret habits of Student A and how he could remember everything?

First, let us see what student B does? Student B is learning all the time. He is always with the books in his hands and plans his learning for two hours at a stretch. He wants to learn everything together at the same time. In general, whenever we begin to learn something, our energy level will be higher because we are excited. But, after some time, our energy level will decline slowly. Usually, when we are about to finish learning, we will have a burst of energy and we will learn well. This is because we will have lots of plans to do after learning, like playing, checking social media, or watching TV and many more. Just thinking about this will give us energy bursts and make us learn faster at the end of our planned learning time. So, at the beginning and the end we will learn well, whereas in the middle we won’t be able to concentrate that much.

So what happens and how the Student B learns during his two hours of learning time? He could learn and understand well in the first ten minutes in the beginning, and he can learn better in the last five minutes of his learning. But, in the middle 105 minutes, he may not learn well, because his concentration level is very low. This happens because usually in this “middle time” we tend to think about our future plans or past happenings. Essentially, we are daydreaming. This means the first ten minutes and the last five minutes, so in total, he could efficiently learn only for 15 minutes and the remaining 105 minutes is not utilised well or in fact wasted. So, student B is trying hard to focus and learn for two hours but he ends up in remembering just 15 minutes.

Now, let us see how does the student A studies. Whenever he plans his studies he never plans for more than 30 minutes. He plans his study by splitting his day with several 30 minute study periods or better just 25-minute study cycles. So the first 10 minutes he could grasp very well as well as the last 5 or 10 minutes. But the middle 5 minutes he may not concentrate well. Nevertheless, this five minutes time is far less than the 105 minutes of student B.

So, whenever you plan your studies don’t plan for more than 30 minutes. Because just thinking about the time period of 30 minutes will make you happy because the time involved is less. You will be very enthusiastic to study. You can plan for thirty minutes or twenty-five minutes or even better twenty minutes. The fact is our brain cannot concentrate on something more than thirty minutes continuously. Only very few people could be able to concentrate on studies for more than thirty minutes. If I give you a choice between learning 30 minutes and learning 120 minutes, most of you will choose 30 minutes, because it consists of less time.

But, whenever you finish studying, you should do something very important. That is recalling what you have studied. So spend at least 5 minutes time to recall what you have studied. Recalling what you have learned helps you remember better for your exams.

So, plan your study time for just 20 minutes; then take five minutes to revise and recall and then take a 5 or 10 minutes break. Again spend another 20 minutes to study.

Studying in shorter bursts keeps your mind healthy and energetic and you will grasp the things far better.

Studying for long hours without a break makes you depressed and will tire you faster.