Study Strategies & Efficiency!

Right as you sit down to study, you should do this:

• Organize and set out your materials

• Set a study objective or goal

• Make sure your environment is comfortable and distraction-free

• All of the above

Poor time management skills can lead to stress. 

• True
• False

Determining what is most important and focusing the majority of your time on those things is called ___________

• Prioritizing
• Minimizing
• Organizing
• Agonizing

Which word means to delay or put off doing something by wasting your time on less important tasks?

• Procrastinate
• Postpone
• Abandon
• Cancel

The ability to plan, execute, and fulfill obligations in a timely manner is

• professionalism.
• organization.
• being cool like that.
• time management.

what are the benefits of effective time-management?

• you improve your ability to make desicions
• you develop a sense of self-discipline
• you reduce stress
• all of the above

What should you do when you are studying, and your attention starts to wane or fade?

• Push through!

• Take a nap

• Take a short (5 min) break with a pleasurable reward

• Quit for the day

What does the research say is the optimum time that your brain can stay focused during study, lecture, etc. (unless of course, you've practiced and gotten really good at it)

• 5-10 min

• 10-20 min

• 2 hours

• around 25 min

At the end of your study time, you should do this:

• give yourself a reward!

• go get more studying done

• fall asleep

• read War and Peace

Using a time management tool, such as a calendar, can give you more of this:

• work to do

• something else to carry around or check

• more efficient and intentional use of your time

• hours in the day