Setting Study Goals

A goal is target you want to achieve. Goal setting is important in academic life as it gives some targets to achieve. Goal setting also helps you in achieving new heights in our lives. Goals setting can be of two types. Short-term and long-term.  A short-­term goal is a target you want to achieve in one or two month. Examples of short-term goals are finishing your homework and doing well in coming tests. A long-term goal is a target you want to achieve within one year. Examples of long-term goals are passing the class with highest marks.

To set right goals, you must know what is exactly you want to accomplish. Then you must write down specific and clearly stated goals with a specific date. If you don’t have clear and specific goals your efforts will lack direction and focus.

Features of Appropriate Goals

Your goals should be:

1. Set goals which are within your skills and abilities. Before setting goals know your strengths and weaknesses and set goals accordingly. It will help you to set right goals.
2. Realistic. Your goals should be realistic. This means they should be achievable. Setting goals of learning five new words is a right goal. Trying to learn 100 new words each day is unrealistic goal.
3. Flexible. Sometimes things do not go as thought and you may need to change your goals according to changed circumstances. So keep your goals flexible so that you can change them as situation arises.
4. Measurable. You must measure your progress toward a goal. It is important to recognize when you have accomplished your goal and when you need to set new goals to accomplish further. Failure to measure your progress will result in effort that is misdirected and wasted.
5. Time bound. Your goal should have a specific time to achieve it. Without time bound, it is difficult to achieve a goal.  
6. Within your control. Your goals should be under your control. No other person should have control on your goals. This means if you are involving some of your friends in your goals but at last moment they did not help you in achieving your goals. Then you should take responsibility of situation and achieve goals yourself. Nobody else should have control on your goals.

Sometimes your parents and faculty members set goals for you. Accept these goals and achieve them. These people always want good for you, and goals set by these people will only help you to achieve success in your academic years.

Set goals in your academic years to get right direction which will lead you to success.

Tips for Remembering

To keep things remembering is a tricky business. Sometimes we remember tough things for long times on the other hand we forget easy things we learned yesterday. There is no definite way for remembering. Here are 10 tips which you can use to keep remember for long time.

1. First of all while trying to remember something, try to understand it. Understanding the content will allow you to remember the information for long time.
2. Form an association between the information you want to remember and how it can be related to a person, object, situation and place.
3. When you want to remember large amount of information, try to break it in smaller, more manageable categories. Then try to remember the information from each category.
4. Create the graphics of information to remember it. Graphics helps in remembering information for long time.
5. Bring personal touch to the information you want to remember, try to relate the information to something about you; it will make it easier to remember.
6. Frequently recite the information and write it many times to remember it for long time.
7. Apply the information in daily use to remember it. For example if you want to remember some new English words then apply those words in your daily life you can remember them easily.
8. Try to visualize the information you want to remember, visualization will help you to remember information for long time.
9. To remember information for long time you can test yourself. To test, write a question related to information on one page and then try to answer the question on next page. This technique will surely help you.
10. Make remembering a fun activity by creating some games related to your information. 

So use these techniques to remember things for long time not in your academic years but through out your life. 

Speed reading - Increase your speed of reading

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How to be active in class

10 Tips to get active and involved in class

Being active in the class will help you to learn faster. In many cases, participating in class is an important criterion that teachers use to assign final grades. Many students do not participate in the class due to the fear of being judged and criticized. Here i am giving you some suggestion to participate in class and get recognized by teacher.

1. Come prepared to the class everyday. Complete all assignments and readings and review notes form previous class. This will help you to avoid from asking inappropriate questions and making uninformed comments. 
2. Sit in the front row of the class, this way it will be difficult for you to stay uninvolved in class.
3. Put your words in front of the class with confidence, it will leave a good impression on teacher and you will be recognized in the class. 
4. Raise good and meaningful questions in class which will help you to increase your knowledge base.
5. When raising an issue be sure that it is relevant to the class topic. Don't waste the time of teacher and other students by raising off track issues. 
6. When getting ready for the class, think about important questions and concerns that may come up in class. Be prepared to handle these.
7. Don't be a person who has opinion on all the topics, it will not leave a good impression on teacher as well as class mates. 
8. Don't be afraid to be wrong while replying on some topic. Sometimes you can even learn form your mistakes. 
9. Be positive while reacting to the comments of other students. You can disagree, but don't be harsh with other students. 
10. Don't take it personally if others disagree with what you say. Your class should be a good platform for exchanging ideas.

Be active in your classes. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by participating.

How to Take Notes in School

Here i am posting a great video on How to take notes in class. Learn form it.

How to concentrate on study (Video)

A great Video on How to concentrate on Study.

Improving concentration for study

Many students lack concentration while they sit for study.  Concentration is very necessary for good study as well as to get good marks in exams. Here are 10 tips to improve concentration.

1. Study in a quite and comfortable environment which is free from distractions and interruptions. Try to get select a place where you can study peacefully. 
2. Choose a study time where you feel, you learn most. Some students learn more in morning while others in nights, so choose the best time accordingly. 
3. Try to study using a time-table it will help you to organize your study as well as your mind will be ready for study according to time-table.
4. Ensure that when you sit for study, you are not feeling hungry  or tired. Otherwise you will not be having energy to concentrate on study.  
5. Try to develop an interest in what you are studying, try to relate it with your everyday life and other practical situations. It will ultimately help you to understand your subject thoroughly. 
6. Have a break when you feel fatigued. There is no set formula for a break, try to understand your level and accordingly set a break time.
7. To have a great concentration, focus only single task at once. Focusing more than one task will not give you great results. 
8. To concentrate better break large tasks into a series of smaller tasks that you can complete one at a time. If you will try to complete a large task in one go, it may make you overwhelmed and you may find difficult to keep your concentration level. 
9. When you are feeling tensed, do not sit for study. Better sit for study when you are relaxed. 
10.  For a good concentration clear your mind from worrisome thoughts. Mental peace is very necessary for a good concentration. To get rid of worrisome thoughts read some motivational literature. it will help you to calm down your mind. 
    

Studying without concentration is like trying to fill a tank with water when the  tank has a hole in its bottom. It doesn't work.

How to motivate yourself for study

Sometimes you do not find any motivation to study. You think that i will not pass my exams and their are many other negative thoughts which comes to your mind regarding study. These negative thoughts hinders your study.

For good study Motivation is very necessary. Motivation helps you to be focused on study and helps in building concentration.  

Here are 10 tips which will help you to keep yourself motivated:

1. Studying with your friends will make study easy and you will learn rapidly. You can discuss various study related problems too with your friends.
2. It will be a good idea to reward yourself with some chocolates and other gifts once you achieve some study targets.
3. Eliminate the number of distractions which you face once you sit for study. 
4. Read some motivational literature in the morning time, it will give you motivation for whole day.
5. Take regular breaks it will help you to concentrate more on study. It is advisable to take a 10 minutes break after  one hour's study.
6. Try to develop interest in what you study. It will help you to understand the subject easily.
7. Study in a comfortable environment. A comfortable environment will help you to study for long time. 
8. Set study goals. Set long-term and short-term goals. These goals will help you to keep focus on study.
9. Paste some motivational posters in your room. These posters will help you to keep motivated. 
10. Whenever feeling frustrated with some topic take a break and discuss the topic with related faculty member. They will help you to solve the problem.

Whenever you feel difficulty sitting down to study, follow the suggestions above to motivate yourself to do what you have to do.

How to select a good study place

Here are 10 tips to choose a right study place:

1. Your study place should be away from distractions. Their should not be any type of noise at study place.
2. Your study place should have all the necessary study material, so that you need not to go again and again here and their to search your study material.
3. Your study place should be available to you whenever you need it for study. 
4. Your study place should consist a table and chair for study.
5. Your study place should have enough space to store all your books and necessary articles.
6. Your study place should have enough light, so that you can study for long hours without straining your eyes.
7. Your study place should have a proper ventilation facility for air.
8. The room temperature of study place matters a lot so if possible keep it normal.
9. Ask your parents not to disturb you while you are in your study place. 
10. Your study place should be clean and make sure you clean it every day. 

 

Ten study habits to become a good student

Ten study habits to become a good student 

1. Plan a proper time for study and make a time-table
2. Plan a quite and comfortable place for study
3. Have a proper plan of study
4. Try to study same time every day
5. Study difficult subjects in the morning time as our mind is fresh in morning time. Study math and science or any other difficult subject in morning.
6. Ask your friends not to call during your study time
7. Take the help of your teacher and friends in difficult topics
8. Set study goals to achieve better results
9. Finish home work and assignments on time and do them in the best way
10. Review your study every weekend to know the progress

Here is an excellent Video on how to make a time-table to organize your study schedule. Watch it once to prepare your own time-table.

Organizing the study schedule

In my last blog i told you about the time-table and how it can help you to organize your study schedule. 

Making a time-table is easy, but the important thing is to follow a time table. It is the time-table following where most of the students are not particular about. They create a good time-table, but once they start following it, after two or three days of following, they find it difficult to follow the time-table. 

You may find it difficult to follow time-table, but practice make you perfect to follow a time-table. So i suggest you to rigorously practice and follow your time table.   

Once you become habitual to follow your time-table you will find that most of the work is getting finished easily and you are also learning more from your study. 

As this quote says:

Action is the foundational key to all success.

So i suggest you to take an action make time-table and follow it from the bottom of your heart. It will lead you to success.

How to organize the study

Organized study play a vital role in getting knowledge from the books and also helps in developing an overall understanding of various subjects.

We can organize our studies by making a time table of study. This time table will help us to study daily on various times of the day. The time table will also help us to systematize our study and we will be able to understand the subjects easily. A good time table will save time for us for other activities such as sports and other activities. 

So i recommend to all the students to make a time table for organizing their study.

A sample time table is given below:

Daily Plan
Time	Activity
6 to 7:30	Math or any difficult subject
7:30 to 9:00	Daily activities
9:00 to 4:00	School time
4:00 to 7:00	Domestic works and other important activities
7:00 to 8:00	Dinner and TV
8:00 to 11:00	Study at least two or three subjects.

A great video on Time Management during exams

This video shows how a student can manage his/her time during exams.

A interesting video on how to study

Here, i am posting a youtube video, which have some great ideas on how to study effectively. You can check this video.

Purpose of Study

Most of the students during their initial schooling years are confused, that why are they studying? I would like to give some genuine reasons to students about the purpose of study.

• We study to get the knowledge about the various things nearby us. Like how the water heats up? Why winter and summer comes and goes?
• We study to increase our knowledge about the society, how it functions and what type of behavior we should display among the elders, how should be behave with younger ones.
• Study develops our thinking pattern and help us to think rationally. 
• Study help us to fulfill our thrust of knowledge. 
• Study help us to move up in life, as we see that most of the successful people in the world are well educated.

All about the studies made easy blog

Dear friends the purpose of starting this blog is to help the students in various study matters. The Blog will help students to get detailed knowledge on various aspects of studies. This blog will help students organize their studies in a systematic manner. The blog will help the students to perform their best in their academic years.

Best of Luck to all the students...


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