Study hacks for students- Informative Article shared by Prof Damanjeet Kaur

 Study Hacks for Students

Study means when a person tries to learn about a particular topic, subject of his or her educational course mainly by reading the books related to the subject.

Study can be done offline or in online mode in today’s technically advanced environment. Most of the students have access to the internet and can search for different valuable things or material related to their subjects.

But the problem that most of the students face is lack of concentration, online distractions, unable to understand the basic concepts of any subject. Few study hacks can be followed by the students for making their study interesting and for better understanding of the concepts.

1.      Your teachers are the people that make your study material ready for you and expect outcomes from you so talk to your teachers without hesitation about what they are expecting from you on your tests.

2.      Make your own sequences or flow charts for a particular topic and it will help you understand better than anything. Use of mnemonic codes can also be helpful.

3.      To avoid online distractions, put your phones, tablets, laptops etc into another room or switch them off. If you do not have self restraint, then free apps that will restrict your access to specified websites can also be useful.

4.       When you have a lengthy topic, it can be broken into small portions. It will reduce your stress level of studying for a long time and increase productivity.

5.      Most of the time students get bored of studying into an environment daily. You can try a different room or a different place in your house.

6.      Reading your notes loudly will help you remember things better and it will also help your study partner.

7.      Reading before the teacher’s lecture can be a way of understanding things better because you will get a better understanding of already read topics.

8.      If you are studying online, make your notes’ font a little different than arial or times new roman. it will help you in a way, the more you concentrate while reading, the more you grab.

9.      Make order of your topics. It will help you in more understanding the concepts.

10.  Take a walk outside in nature, it will help you freshen yourself.

Hope these hacks help you to study with more concentration and bring out more productivity and good results.