The school break is a time for students to relax, catch up on sleep, and spend time with family and friends. However, the weeks of relaxation can lead to difficulty getting back into the habit of studying efficiently.
Studying more effectively after a long break requires a few helpful tips! This blog post will share some useful study tips that will help you get back into the swing of things at school.
Motivate yourself
The first step to being more productive after a break is to motivate yourself. It’s effortless for students to get lazy during the school holidays and not bother studying at all!
One way of motivating yourself is by setting up short-term goals that you can meet over time, such as marking off two pages in an assignment every day or reading one chapter from your textbook each night before bed.
This will make it easier for you to remember what you want out of this long-term goal (to be successful) and also give you some smaller tasks on which to focus.
Create a study environment
A key to being successful in school is creating a place for yourself where you can focus. You may want to create an area at home that’s designated just for studying or invest in some study supplies like new pens and notebooks.
You could also try out different areas around your house, such as the kitchen table or bedroom with the door closed. The best environment will depend on each person, but it’s essential to find one space that helps you get school work done!
To break up long periods of concentration without getting too distracted by other things happening in our lives, take short breaks every 20 minutes. Just so that your brain doesn’t start feeling overwhelmed from not switching tasks often enough. (This is called the Pomodoro technique.)
Remove distractions
Noise is one of the biggest distractions for students when they’re trying to study. Cute kitten videos on Youtube are all fun and games, but if you can’t focus at school, then it’s easy for your grades to suffer! Luckily there are a few ways that you can do to remove or limit distractions:
- Find some headphones and take breaks from your computer once in a while (every 20 minutes) with them on as an alternative way to break up long periods of concentration without getting too distracted by other things happening around us;
- Phone apps such as SelfControl allow you to download websites like Facebook to not be accessible while using this app.
Make a study timetable
It’s also a good idea to plan your study time. Write down these plans on paper or download an app that does it automatically (such as School Planner) so that you know exactly when things are due! Decide when you will be studying, how long for, and what you want to achieve during the session.
If there is one piece of advice we can give students after school break, it would be this: work hard in advance! Getting everything done way before the deadline means less stress later, which can help motivate someone who just wants to have fun instead of doing more studies 🙂
Little and often
It’s also important to study little and often. This means that instead of studying for a few hours at a time, it is better to break up the work into smaller chunks by taking small breaks in between each session or chunk of work.
You may find it difficult getting back into the habit during school holidays so we recommend breaking your assignments down as much as possible before even starting on them!
For example if you’re struggling with an essay, try dividing it into three parts and only be concerned about the first part for now before moving onto the next one! This helps avoid being overwhelmed by having so many points to cover in your work.
This tip is useful because when we divide tasks up like this, they don’t seem as big or intimidating (which can lead to procrastination). We also get them done faster than if we were doing them all at once which leaves more time open for other things later on down the line!
Breaking essays or assignments into smaller chunks also makes sure that nothing gets missed out. This is how you should approach your studies – break them down into small chunks!
Use all resources available
It’s always a good idea to use all the resources you have available. Arranging your study time and environment can help, but there are lots of other ways that students often forget:
- Speaking with friends about their schoolwork;
- Reading academic articles or journals related to subjects they’re taking;
- Talking through questions/concerns with teachers or professors.
Finally, make sure to get enough sleep too! Make sure to get at least eight hours of sleep each night so that you can stay alert and be productive while studying. When we don’t sleep well, this affects our mental health, which in turn impacts how well we do at school and what mood we’ll be in for studying.
