how dou u cope?

Question

exams!? i got soo many revision to do... but procrastination is my problem? how do i keep relax but do the work at the same time?

Answer 1

First of all, just take a few minutes to make yourself a workable and easy-going timetable that you'll stick to. Make time to do your work, basing it on how much you know you must do a day.
For example, if you know that you're capable of doing at least 8 hours of work a day, or that you know you must do at least 8 hours a day, then plan to do 8 hours of work each day.

To your timetable, add the times of your meals.
Add in those regular breaks that'll help to refresh your mind. One or two of these could be your meal times. I find that if some of your work involved you doing research, the mealtime is a good time to read over those notes because it sticks in more.
Your breaks should be no more than 15 minutes to half an hour. Mealtimes, obviously, are longer; don't rush your food to get back to work!

Tips:

Stick your timetable just above your desk, or somewhere that you can see it and that makes you stick to it!
**If you fail to keep to your timetable, you have to see a way around it that you can complete comfortably. Remember, this is your future and if you don't do it now... (I hate to emphasize the pressure, but this is as important as it gets!)

Try and make your revision fun and durable, like sitting with a friend who takes the same class, to help. Ask each other questions, etc... Play easy music, quietly, in the background as you work, as it helps keep you patient and soothed. I'm not suggesting that you go out and pay a phenomenal amount of money on doplhin music if that's not your style, but just slow, quiet music. Make use of the clasical station on the radio, its what it's there for afterall; to soothe...

Make sure that as the weeks get closer to your exams - make sure that you get your sleep. Its no good you making this timetable to do vital revision if you're constantly tired!

When you go to bed, go to sleep without thinking about your work too much because this can generate broken sleep or even sleeplessness!

Now that the summers' here, (if you're British) you may be tempted to take longer breaks or get irritated because you're not out enjoying the sun. Make a few changes, work outside in the shade providing its not too hot. But also be prepared to make a few sacrifices because one day, after your exams are over, you can have all the time back!

Endeaver to reward yourself after a long days' work. For example, set yourself a treat which could be your favourite comeday with some ice cream that you'll have if you do the work. It helps to keep an open mind, and helps you relax.

A sensible, balanced diet of three-four meals a day is useful. I know from experience that hard work and long hours encourages you to snack more often on junk, usually, which is not good as most of the time you're going to be sitting around during this period.

Finally, as it is summertime, drink water and fruit juice often. You don't wanna dehydrate!

Finally, finally (I Lied); keep a level head and don't think about how much you've got to do, but think more on how you're going to achieve it, i.e., your timetable! It's a much more, workable approach that should cut the stress in half.
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Good luck and best wishes for your exams!
~ Jazzycake

Answer 2

In addition to the techniques mentioned above, sit down where there is sufficient air and sun. This is where you should study. After you have sat down, close your eyes, relax, and breathe in deeply a few times. Only when you are in a relaxed state will your mind absorb anything.

With theory subjects, you should summarise your work. If you do not yet have summaries, I would suggest you first start by picking out only a few facts in each chapter. It is okay if you leave out a lot of facts the first time round. It will help build your confidence if you have very basic summaries of each chapter. Now study those summaries and explain them to yourself and to other people as best you can.

Go back and add a little more detail to your summaries. Then study this. Keep on doing this and you will find your confidence has grown and there is no learning monster under the bed.

When you summarise and study, keep motivating yourself that the subject is interesting. Try to be interested. Ask yourself questions about what the text is about and why the author has said what they have said. Ask yourself if you agree or disagree. Ask yourself things that you are curious about. For example, if you are studying Tax law, you could ask how the government will stop people from making sales under the table and thus not declaring their profits.

Also give yourself a reward every time you finish a summary, every time you commit one to memory and every time you reach a goal you have set.

Now, go learn, relax and enjoy it.

Answer 3

I feel your pain, I'm a procrastinator too. There's not much you can do right now, but next year, everyday after classes, type out your notes on the computer and say them out loud as you do this. This is just like reviewing your notes 3 times at once. You have visual review, auditory review, and tactile review. This will solidify the concepts very quickly and help you to remember them longer than normal note taking. If you don't understand something that you typed out, meet with your teacher and figure it out the next day. when it comes to exams, you'll only have to review for about an hour to be ready because you'll know everything solidly. Trust me, it works. Every single course in my master's degree was 100% 4.0. I only studied for a hour for those exams. Good luck.

Answer 4

First of all, place your exam preparation first on the priority list. Then establish workstations round the place of your residence, each allocated specifically for each subject area. Do not move books or other study material around between places; for example, from shelves unto your various workstations. Keep them at their allocated places selected according to the contents of your study, move yourself instead. The purpose here is to stabilise the learning structure in your mind and break down things in your mind that are causal and that keep you restless and making you run away from work, things like sitting hours in the end watching TV etc.

Now, observe a cat, and copy all its movements. You books are now the rats, and the contents the juicy flesh inside. I hope this will disgust you well, and I ask you, are you already not? Stare like a cat and also walk like one, on all four, round your book, taught, focused, relaxed and yet fully alert. You know now that you are facing a very distracting enemy, that is you own mind, control it at an instinctive level, then when your instincts signal, pounce and enjoy the fruit of your hunt hours at the end.

It is never easy to study for exams, and for that purpose you efforts of draw up study plan in fact would be the chief distraction; your study plan is: study all the time and then rest after the exams. Once you get used to studying most of the time, once the first thing in morning that you remember is the last thing you study before going to sleep, and once you start dreaming about most things you study, you will know that you mind has melted into you purpose; it would then be like a tame horse, broken in just in time to enjoy a nice ride through exams, that could have been an absolute jungle.

Answer 5

My top tips:
Sit down at your desk and make sure you're comfortable
- make sure there is no tv or people to distract you
- organise your notes into subjects and topics so you know what you have to cover (but don't spend too long - that's my weakness spending ages pretending to revise but actually just sorting my notes)
- get a drink and something to nibble on (I usually have a dry cereal otherwise I bite my nails)
- putting music on can help but not too loud, too fast or anything you'll want to dance or sing along to - but music helps you relax
- break it up into chunks and don't get up and wander off until you've gone over everything you aimed to
- take breaks so you don't end up living like a hermit in your room - but don't get distracted in your breaks
- try different methods - reading notes, writing things out, flash cards, colour-coding, spidergrams of basic ideas, reciting things or even making a song!!
- don't stay up too late - nothing will go in and you'll feel even more stressed

Good luck! Try not to get too stressed and remeber to stay organised but take breaks. And remember, the good results are so worth a few weeks of major revision.

Answer 6

You can't relax and do the work at the same time when you procrastinate. Well... most of my friends if they're not finish with their projects on the last day, they fake an absence the next day to turn the project in without any penalties. But always remember, procrastination in higher classes can sometimes kill you.

Answer 7

You have my sympathy! Give yourself a time limit "I'll do one hour and then I'll spend 20 minutes on the phone to my mate" or whatever you like to do. After the 20 minutes you then have to do another hour etc. Physical activity helps clear the brain too so 20 minutes dancing or walking outside is valiuable. Good Luck!

Answer 8

try to start by doing the things you like, for instance if you've got some revision's to do in a particular subject that you enjoy, then do those first and set aside the "harder" ones for later, so you can enjoy and have even a little bit of fun while doing your work.

Answer 9

If you live in the UK and are doing your gcse's or KS3 sats then buy some cgp revision books www.cgpbooks.co.uk they are the best things that I've ever used for exams. (eating jaffa cakes when revising also helps me!!) Good Luck

Answer 10

This is on the memo pads at my former employers.
"Plan Your Work.....Work Your Plan"
I still use this method even after having retired. It is quite simple.
Plan what and how you are going to keep from procrastinating and follow
that plan.