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Playing with puppies and kittens relieves stress and can help you perform better on exams.
10 Tips for Pulling an All-Nighter
Work at a desk and chair and not a couch, floor, or bed to make sure you avoid falling asleep at all costs.
Make sure to work in a well-lit area. Cramming alone in your room with a tiny little lamp on is just asking for you to fall asleep.
A big dose of fresh air is a great way to make you feel refreshed and alert.
Minimize your distractions. That’s right, that means turning your phone off or at least putting it on silent, and refraining from social networks and YouTube videos.
Only use coffee and energy drinks as a last resort. If your body is not used to large amounts of caffeine, you may experience a caffeine crash.
Take a 10–15-minute break every 60–90 minutes. Make sure this includes getting out of your chair to get your blood flowing again.
Listen to stimulating music in headphones. Classical music without lyrics is said to make you more productive.
Get a study buddy. It’s a lot harder to fall asleep when you have someone there to smack you every time you start nod off.
Switch up your tasks and/or subjects. If you have a bunch of different things to do, switch from one to the other occasionally. This will keep things fresh and interesting.
Have a 15–20-minute nap just before the sun comes up. This will reset your body’s internal clock.
Looking for some new music to study to? Musicovery.com is a site where you can find new music based on your current mood.
Studying for 30–50 minutes at a time (with 10-minute breaks in between) is the most effective way to retain information.
Have a paper due? Finding it hard to not get distracted by the Internet? KeepMeOut.com lets you block sites for certain periods of time, so you’ll stay focused on the task at hand.
When doing long assignments, set a 30-minute timer and race it. This will prevent you from procrastination.
How to easily convert gallons, pints, quarts, and cups.
You can remember the value of pi (3.1415926) by counting each word’s letters in “May I have a large container of coffee?”
Eating chocolate while studying helps the brain retain new information more easily, and has been directly linked to higher test scores.
How to make an essay longer: Hit CTRL + F and search for “.” and change the font size of the periods from 12 to 14. They look exactly the same, but will make your paper significantly longer!
Want to get smarter without realizing it? Play some Tetris. It’s been known to increase your brainpower by almost 150%.
Take notes on your professor’s ideologies and use them to your advantage when writing essays.
Believing you have a good memory actually helps you to have a better memory.
If you can’t imagine dropping the mic after the final sentence in your essay, your conclusion needs to be stronger.
Effective study technique: Read through a page of your notes once, then try to recall as much of what you read as possible. Do this for every page you need to study until you are happy. Past recollection makes future recalling easier.
Studying in your room? Keep your shoes on. Your mind associates having your shoes on with being busy, so you’ll be less distracted.
Chew gum when you’re studying, and then chew the same flavor when you take the test. This has been known to improve memory.
Writing papers is a formula. An 8-page paper is roughly 16 paragraphs. If you write an introductory paragraph and a conclusion, that leaves you with 14 body paragraphs left to write. Make a list of 14 arguments that support your thesis, and then rearrange them to make sense chronologically. Once you break them down, papers become a lot easier.
Accidentally type half your essay with caps lock on? In Word, shift + F3 will change anything from caps to no caps and vice versa.
The EasyBib iPhone app will give you a bibliography on any book if you simply scan the barcode.
Leave studying
Playing with puppies and kittens relieves stress and can help you perform better on exams.
10 Tips for Pulling an All-Nighter
Work at a desk and chair and not a couch, floor, or bed to make sure you avoid falling asleep at all costs.
Make sure to work in a well-lit area. Cramming alone in your room with a tiny little lamp on is just asking for you to fall asleep.
A big dose of fresh air is a great way to make you feel refreshed and alert.
Minimize your distractions. That’s right, that means turning your phone off or at least putting it on silent, and refraining from social networks and YouTube videos.
Only use coffee and energy drinks as a last resort. If your body is not used to large amounts of caffeine, you may experience a caffeine crash.
Take a 10–15-minute break every 60–90 minutes. Make sure this includes getting out of your chair to get your blood flowing again.
Listen to stimulating music in headphones. Classical music without lyrics is said to make you more productive.
Get a study buddy. It’s a lot harder to fall asleep when you have someone there to smack you every time you start nod off.
Switch up your tasks and/or subjects. If you have a bunch of different things to do, switch from one to the other occasionally. This will keep things fresh and interesting.
Have a 15–20-minute nap just before the sun comes up. This will reset your body’s internal clock.
Looking for some new music to study to? Musicovery.com is a site where you can find new music based on your current mood.
Studying for 30–50 minutes at a time (with 10-minute breaks in between) is the most effective way to retain information.
Have a paper due? Finding it hard to not get distracted by the Internet? KeepMeOut.com lets you block sites for certain periods of time, so you’ll stay focused on the task at hand.
When doing long assignments, set a 30-minute timer and race it. This will prevent you from procrastination.
How to easily convert gallons, pints, quarts, and cups.
You can remember the value of pi (3.1415926) by counting each word’s letters in “May I have a large container of coffee?”
Eating chocolate while studying helps the brain retain new information more easily, and has been directly linked to higher test scores.
How to make an essay longer: Hit CTRL + F and search for “.” and change the font size of the periods from 12 to 14. They look exactly the same, but will make your paper significantly longer!
Want to get smarter without realizing it? Play some Tetris. It’s been known to increase your brainpower by almost 150%.
Take notes on your professor’s ideologies and use them to your advantage when writing essays.
Believing you have a good memory actually helps you to have a better memory.
If you can’t imagine dropping the mic after the final sentence in your essay, your conclusion needs to be stronger.
Effective study technique: Read through a page of your notes once, then try to recall as much of what you read as possible. Do this for every page you need to study until you are happy. Past recollection makes future recalling easier.
Studying in your room? Keep your shoes on. Your mind associates having your shoes on with being busy, so you’ll be less distracted.
Chew gum when you’re studying, and then chew the same flavor when you take the test. This has been known to improve memory.
Writing papers is a formula. An 8-page paper is roughly 16 paragraphs. If you write an introductory paragraph and a conclusion, that leaves you with 14 body paragraphs left to write. Make a list of 14 arguments that support your thesis, and then rearrange them to make sense chronologically. Once you break them down, papers become a lot easier.
Accidentally type half your essay with caps lock on? In Word, shift + F3 will change anything from caps to no caps and vice versa.
The EasyBib iPhone app will give you a bibliography on any book if you simply scan the barcode.
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