First: Find a Study Zone
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Set aside a fixed place for studying and nothing but studying. This area needs to be shaped in such a way that it becomes the best environment for studying. It should be reasonably quiet and relatively free of distractions like radio, TV, and people. Several surveys suggest that 80 percent of a student's studying is done in his or her own room, not in a library or study hall.
Having a place that you can designate for studying and nothing else will help create an environment of habit where your instincts will focus on review. Then, whenever you sit down in that particular niche in the world, you'll feel like going right to work. Look at it this way; when you come into a classroom, you sit down and go to work by paying attention to the instructor. Your attitude and attention and behavior are automatic because in the past, the room has been associated with attentive listening and not much else. If you can arrange the same kind of situation for the place where you study, you will find it easier to sit down and start studying.
Having a place that you can designate for studying and nothing else will help create an environment of habit where your instincts will focus on review. Then, whenever you sit down in that particular niche in the world, you'll feel like going right to work. Look at it this way; when you come into a classroom, you sit down and go to work by paying attention to the instructor. Your attitude and attention and behavior are automatic because in the past, the room has been associated with attentive listening and not much else. If you can arrange the same kind of situation for the place where you study, you will find it easier to sit down and start studying.
Set Study Goals
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Before you begin an assignment, write down on a sheet of paper the time you expect to finish. Setting small goals will make the workload easier to split up and finish. Keep a record of your goal setting. This step will not take much time at all, however, it can be extremely effective. It may put just the slightest bit of pressure on you, enough so that your study behavior will become instantly more efficient. Keep the record of your goals as a measure of your study efficiency. Try setting slightly higher goals in successive evenings. Don't try to make fantastic increases in rate. Just increase the goal a bit at a time.
Set small, short-range goals for yourself. Divide your assignment into subsections and set a time for when you will have each section finished. If you are doing math, set a time goal for the solution of each problem, if you are reading, set a goal for each page or chapter. You will find that this is a way to increase your ability to study without daydreaming.
Set small, short-range goals for yourself. Divide your assignment into subsections and set a time for when you will have each section finished. If you are doing math, set a time goal for the solution of each problem, if you are reading, set a goal for each page or chapter. You will find that this is a way to increase your ability to study without daydreaming.
Make Studying a habit
Set aside a certain time to begin studying. Certain behaviors are usually habitual at certain times of the day. If you examine your day carefully, you'll find that you tend to do certain things at predictable times. There may be changes from day to day, but, generally, parts of your behavior are habitual and time controlled. If you’re honest with yourself, you will find that time controlled behavior is fairly easy to start. The point is that if you can make studying – or at least some of your studying – habitual, it will be a lot easier to start. If the behavior is started at a habitual time, you will find that it is easier to start without daydreaming or thinking about other things.