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How do you cure procrastination any ideas? Better study techniques please help...its worse I'm a college student... any Ideas Please help lets say got 3 finals due and speech due monday... I Have a problem...Please HELP ?!!!! :(

Answer 1

How to Study
Try to relate what you are learning to your personal experience. Talk about what you are studying with your friends, parents and teachers. Consider peer tutoring - teaching fellow students. It may sound like a big commitment which benefits someone else, but we learn best what we have to teach. Discussing difficult concepts with others often provides details which you can use as 'anchors' to help you remember them better. The more time you spend concentrating on the subject, the better will be your recall. That's ACTIVE studying.
"But I studied my notes, my tests, last year's exam and the textbook!!" (see What to Study)
Classic passive study technique - “reading my notes” or “reading the text”
What’s wrong with that?

1. Takes too long (or not, if you have lousy notes).
2. You spend as much time on trivia as on key information, on what you already know as what you don’t know.
3. You are using someone else’s organization and language, which may be meaningless to you - “in one ear and out the other”.
4. You aren’t doing what the test will demand - on the test you will have recall and write, not read!
5. You don’t find out what you really know until you write the test, when it’s too late to do anything about it!
6. You’ll probably put yourself to sleep.

Active studying:

1. Is multi-sensory - see it, say it , hear it, touch it, write it.
2. Is regular and frequent - repetition is needed to move material from short term to long term memory.
3. Requires thinking to select, organize and condense high value information so it can be mastered.
4. Active study produces products which can be used over and over at odd moments
5. Active studying makes use of the way the human memory works.

Memory Characteristics

Written language has led us to neglect our long term memory.
Meaningless information is difficult to memorize.
We remember the beginning and end of a list better.
We remember lists better if we know how many items are in the list.
We remember better things that are linked or associated.

Active Study Techniques

* create lists and use mnemonics to memorize them
* write study notes (cheat sheets!)
* create charts
* make jigsaws, pin on labels to study diagrams and maps
* practice skills
* work with a partner!

Methods of Study
1. Cover and test method
This method is good for spelling, definitions, vocabulary lists, etc.

a) Read the material

b) Cover the material; either say it or write it.

c) Check to see which facts you omitted.

d) Cover and repeat.

2. Studying with a partner
This technique involves asking a friend, brother, sister, or parent to question you from your notes. This can be effective only if you have a complete set of notes and if you can stay on topic. It can reinforce what you leave already learned and help to get the facts sorted into a logical sequence.
This technique will not be effective if you use it as a first step in studying. It is important that you have already tried one of the other study methods by yourself first.

3. Recite aloud
Just as reading aloud improves your concentration, reciting aloud will enable you to learn faster. For example, if you are trying to memorize something, repeat it several times aloud. Your mind will have to concentrate to recall, and you will be listening to what you are saying.

4. Overlearning
Most students can easily recite the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty", and yet they find it difficult to remember facts learned in class the day before. Why is this so? As a child, you recited it so many times after learning it that it became impossible to forget. This is called overlearning. If you frequently review material after learning it thoroughly in study, you will overlearn and never forget!

5. Study Notes
Put the main heading at the top of the page. In the margin put the sub-heading (or word to be defined). Beside it, put the facts or (or definition) in point form. Finally cover the points and test yourself as you look only at what is in the margin.


6. Be a Teacher -- Test Yourself
One of the most effective study methods is to prepare and then answer your own questions.
a) Study your notes well.
b) Prepare questions which you think the teacher could ask on the test. Get these questions f rom tests, f rom questions you make up, from homework questions.
c) Without looking at your notes, answer the questions.
d) Use you notes to "mark" you test.
e) Correct your errors.
f) If you have a friend in the same course, do each other's tests.

You will be surprised at the number of questions you made up that are the same as those on the real test! Remember: This technique works only after you have spent some time in actual study.

7. SQ4R Study Method
SURVEY
Preview the book and chapters. Look at the table of contents, index, chapters, headings, graphs, tables, diagrams, and questions at the end of a particular chapter. Get an overall view of the book or chapter or selection.
QUESTION
Change chapter and sectional headings to questions. Write out questions, and see if you can answer any.
READ
Keep the questions in mind as you read and attempt to answer them.
RECALL
Think about what you just read, and see if you can recall the important points.
WRITE
Jot down the major ideas and clues you may wish to remember. Write the answers to the questions.
REVIEW
Examine your answers, correct or fill in more detail. Observe any errors or weak spots. Return to the material and re-write if necessary. Have you understood the material, can you delineate the general and main ideas, and supporting details? Do you have a good idea of the sequence and the concepts? Do you feel you now have understood and can recall the answers to the questions, and the central ideas? It may be necessary to repeat some of the steps.

Answer 2

First, fear of success or failure. The anxiety that sets in at the onset of a project causes some people to foolishly put off getting started. The discomfort is heightened when you feel incompetent or not up to the task. Some worry so much about producing a perfect product that they wait until every drop of research has been done or every avenue explored. Others engage in elaborate preparatory or avoidance activities before beginning a task, such as deciding that all the dishes must be washed and put away before you start your paper. The urge to tidy up always hits me before a big project. Luckily I recognize this procrastination tactic.

Second, overestimating the time left to complete a task. When your teacher assigns a research project the first week of school do you begin on it right away or wait for fifteen weeks until it is due? Many students see that long semester stretching ahead of them and believe they have plenty time. They fail to take into account the pile of other homework and life tasks they must manage during the semester.

Third, underestimating the time required to complete tasks. Many students don't have a realistic concept of how much time it will take to look up sources, take notes, extract the information and formulate a paper. When they run into snags and time delays, they often feel the universe is working against them, when in fact it's their own procrastination that is the enemy. People with a poor concept of time also think they can drive a 30 minute trip in ten minutes.

i would advice to not to take these many tensions dont think that it is only my life try to enjoy each and every moment of the life whether it may be sorrow or happy i know that it is easy to say but hard to work it out but try ur level; best one or the other day will help u

i will pray that ur problem should be solved ok bye take care !

Answer 3

Procrastination is a time management problem, which means your priorities and your discipline are your main challenges. Maybe you could calendar your school work and exams and designate times for school work and studying. Then, you just have to make yourself do it. The best thing is that you will feel in control, especially as you get used to it. After a while, you won't know how you managed without your calendar. This will be critical if you go on to medical or law school. Good Luck.

Answer 4

Come up with a to-do list. It really helps and is much easier to accomplish things when you prioritize the things you have to do and set a deadline for yourself.

Or better yet a “have-done list”.

Start with only a few items first, so it won't be hard.
Keep a scrap of paper or a notebook handy in order to record the things you HAVE done.
It's like a record of accomplishments and it will help you feel good about yourself every time you accomplishment something!

Good luck!!!

Answer 5

I found this website helpful. http://www.how-to-study.com/pqr.htm It has some ideas on how to cure procrastination.

Answer 6

I have the same problem when it comes to doing house work. Just take it a little at a time.

Answer 7

if you know your subjects their is no need to procrastinate ,just say or write whats on your mind.as you know procrastination is very time consuming,probably time you dont have