Fast and Optimal Learning

You know how though to be a student is, right? Hey, I'm a student myself, I really do understand being a student is tough. What's more, we don't get paid for our full time 'job'. We pay for them instead in exchange for knowledge they offer. I can't really argue with that as they got a point, but still, it can be frustrating when the school life takes over your daily life.

Indeed we have a privilege as being a student. But for what exchange? Aside from money, of course it is our precious time. The key is to find a balance between your school life and regular life, see..when I told you about student is like a job, I do have a point there, aren't I? You need to maximize efficiency of your study time to get the best result and some good free time. But how?

Essentially, school sucks when it comes to assignment and exam right? It takes a lot of your time and mind, sometimes even enough to take away your cool head and you will easily find yourselves with nowhere to go but to your study desk all day. So here are a few suggestions on how to do just that.

First of all, you should make a commitment (or at least a will) to yourselves to study a bit every day or on scheduled day. I study for at least 3 days a week for about one hour at home (although 30 minutes will most likely to be enough, but then again it depends on your subject). This will keep you from having to cram or stress over spending an hour or two (sometimes more) when assignments and exams approach.

And to make the best out of your study at school, you should at least give your 10 or 15 minutes to review about the lesson your teacher will teach. That way, you will get motivated during class because you will feel like you understand better about the subject and believe it or not, your mind will be more clear that way.

Make your own study group. You can discuss about the lecture that you don't understand with your friend and plus, you can help each other on the assignment or better yet, work together. It is a general fact that most students feel a lot more confident when they ask their friends instead of their teacher and thus, they understand better.

Delegation minimizes your individual study time while also allowing group members to offer insights that had not occurred to you in your own studious endeavors.

If you have a very limited time to study, then what you can do best is to focus on just one short topic and try to figure out the principle of the rest of the topics. That way, you'll feel the increase of your understanding even if it's not a comprehensive knowledge.

It will help you a big time if you can manage to record the lectures and your discussion. That way, you can study whenever you like although it feels like cheating, because you can actually understand the lecture even when you're sleeping in class with your recorder ON, but hey, that's the purpose of technology, isn't it?

Begin to develop strong speed reading skills. This involves absorbing all the key information out of a text, enabling you to consolidate the time you spend laboring through intense reading assignments. Whenever you have a text that actually belongs to you, keep a highlighter at the ready. Highlighting key phrases, terms, and even nouns and verbs, you should highlight them for easy direction when you review the material. Highlight is crucial when you're dealing with heavy subjects.

If your school offers classes or you find software that is especially geared toward developing your ability to speed read, go for it. This will be an invaluable skill in the long run. Trust me!

Don't forget to take time out for yourself to rest and recharge. Overdoing it will just make you feel burned out in the long run. So take some time every day to do something truly relaxing and enjoyable. And remember that when you're sleeping there is this system called REM (rapid eye movement) that enables you to do things better and store your information in your brain in a great way, be confident about it!