Don’t study hard, be smart enough to study.

Vishwaniketan Institutes
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6 min readMay 7, 2021

-Study tips to stay you focused!!!!!

To be smart enough, the person who is reading these, I’m sure that you would be feeling bored while studying… you would not be having any interest in studying… you would be unable to focus on your studies… you would not be feeling to do your study… you won’t be getting good marks in your exam… etc… etc… Am I right??

Get chilled, I will surely try to provide you all important tips that will make you focused on your studies. This few minutes reading will surely offer you some tips for your effective study. Read it and try to bring them in yourselves.

Become your own teacher :
When you study, mostly try doing it by yourself. When you try solving by yourself you will come to know about your mistakes. Thus try solving again and again. When you solve again, try to improve your previous mistake. And thus solving it again and again will surely make you Mr. Perfect. Thus, it is said to become your own teacher. Re-do the problems that give you trouble. Try to explain the material in your own words, as if you are the teacher. You can do this in a study group, with a study partner, or on your own. Saying the material aloud will point out where you are confused and need more information and will help you retain the information. As you are explaining the material, use examples and make connections between concepts (just as a teacher does).
Start making quizzes for yourself. Creating a quiz for yourself will help you to think like your professor. Quizzing yourself is a highly effective study technique. Identify the questions that you don’t know and quiz yourself on only those questions. Say your answers aloud. This will help you to retain the information and make corrections where they are needed. At first, you may need to rely on your notes to explain the material, but eventually you’ll be able to teach it without your notes.

Shyness is the enemy of clarity :
According to my experience 80% of students shy to ask a doubt to teacher. When teacher teaches many of them get doubts but only 20% students clear it. Others just don’t ask just because they get shy. Just because you shy your doubt remains uncleared. When you go home and open the same page you just close it because you were having doubt. We even don’t try solving it ourselves and keep it as doubt. It’s necessary to clear doubt as soon as you can because that doubt doesn’t clear your further concepts. Slowly your interest in study also decreases, your focus gets lost. Thus, your score in the exam also decreases. Thus, you can just imagine that one doubt; how much will it affect in your studies. Thus, shyness is an enemy of clarity, don’t shy be much confident. Let it be your doubt silly, doesn’t matter just understand that your doubt matters a lot. Clear it on time.

Just Reading doesn’t mean studying :

Simply reading and re-reading texts or notes is not actively engaging in the material. It is simply re-reading your notes. Only ‘doing’ the readings for class is not studying. It is simply doing the reading for class. Re-reading leads to quick forgetting. Think of reading as an important part of pre-studying, but learning information requires actively engaging in the material. Active studying does not mean highlighting or underlining text, re-reading, or rote memorization. Though these activities may help to keep you engaged in the task, they are not considered active studying techniques and are weakly related to improved learning. Creating study guide, formulating questions and problems, creating quiz, becoming your own teacher, making maps and diagrams to make easy for study, developing symbols, learning some topics in music tone, studying in terms of question, evidence and conclusion and many more are some ideas for active studying.

Health is wealth :
Health is the blessing in one’s life that a sick person can only notice it. Health is the first most important thing than all. Eat healthy to be healthy to study. Some foods improve our ability to stay focused, while other food can leave us feeling tired and sluggish. Knowing that your diet has an impact on your brain’s capacity to perform at its best makes having a healthy diet an essential part of your study plan.

Consider your learning style :
In order to figure out what style works best for you, think about how you best like to absorb information. Visual learners, Auditory learners, Kinesthetic or tactile learners. Most of us fit into more than one category, and our learning styles vary depending on the subject or environment we are in. Finding a learning style that you think will work for you is a step to take early on when preparing to study. Identify your learning style to help tailor your study technique.

Create a positive study environment :
Keep your study environment far away from any loud noises, hallways, or places where your focus will be disrupted by people and sounds. Nothing will make your mind feel fuzzier than having a messy desk. Having a tidy desk space will help your brain feel less clogged and confused, so you can focus on your study. Nothing will make your mind feel fuzzier than having a messy desk. Having a tidy desk space will help your brain feel less clogged and confused, so you can focus on your study. If you’re in need of some added inspiration, hang a vision board or mood board on the wall that depicts your dreams and goals for the future. Whenever you start to feel a little stressed or overwhelmed, take a deep breath and gain some motivation and inspiration from the board.

Setting goals for study time :
Sometimes studying can feel like an endless endeavor. Your brain can start to feel full, and there seems to be no foreseeable end to all the hard work. The best way to combat this and to stay positive is by setting goals and celebrations for when you achieve these goals. One important aspect to goal setting is rewarding yourself when you achieve your goals. Often when setting goals without a reward, it can be difficult to find the incentive to push through. Set both general goals like “complete four hours of study each day” or “grasp a new concept”, and specific goals such as “write all my notes around subject X by Friday” to make the most of your study time.

Practice makes man perfect :
Worksheets are a fun, digestible way to stay focused when you feel like you’ve been sitting at your desk for hours on end. You’ll also find that once you’ve graded your own work, it can be rewarding to see how much you’ve learned and how far you’ve come. Don’t worry if you get things wrong, as this will help you start to assess the gaps in your knowledge. Make sure that your worksheets cover only a small aspect of each subject at a time. If you try and include a semester’s worth of topics into one worksheet it could get easy to miss important details you’ll need to remember later. Make sure your worksheet is easy to navigate. Use text boxes and make sure you leave plenty of room for long answers.

Stay motivated :
Make sure your worksheet is easy to navigate. Use text boxes and make sure you leave plenty of room for long answers. One tried-and-tested method is to write a list of reasons why you want to achieve something. When creating a list, take a moment when you’re refreshed and list all the reasons the exam can help you and your future goals. Once you have your list, refer back to it when you’re lacking motivation.

These were some tips which can surely help you for studies. Many more are there. You can point out them below:

-Establish a routine
-Get knowledge from different books
-Organize study groups
-Track own progress
-Test it yourself
-Visualize topics
-Refer your own notes
-Make notes in your own words
-Make quizzes for solving
-Focus on skills not grades
-Create a study ritual
-Make a calendar for help
-Reconsider multitasking
-Make friend to your problem

I hope that this read of a few minutes reading will surely help you for your studies, and you will do good in your study. Just manage your time the way you can to study different from you are doing.

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