Your Place of Study

In order to study efficiently, you need to have a place that is always, and only, used

for studying. Ideally, this should be your own desk in your own private room. If you

share a room with someone else, you will have to try even harder than usual not to be

distracted.

Your desk should he neat and cleared of anything that distracts your attention, such

as photographs, personal letters, magazines, and especially a radio. All the materials

that you need for study should be within easy reach: textbooks, notebooks, a dic-

tionary, a slide rule, pens, and pencils. On the left of your desk (or on your right if

you are left-handed) should be a good lamp that lights your work without shadows.

Because your desk is your private place of study, it should not be used for any other

purpose. Even for reading the daily newspaper or a long awaited letter,go elsewhere. 

When you come to your desk, it should suggest nothing but academic work.

Unfortunately, your place of study, at home or in a dormitory, may sometimes be

noisy. Also there is the occasional need to be hospitable to friends who visit. Many

students, therefore, prefer to study in the library. This too has its disturbances and

distractions. They are fewer, however, than if you try to study while sitting on a

campus bench, walking along the road, or passing the time with friends in the

cafeteria.

Your Time of Study

One of the wisest but most difficult rules of studying is to set a definite schedule and

then follow it. This is difficult to do because,besides the usual distractions and

temptations, there are often unexpected interruptions. Nevertheless, if you are really

interested in studying well, try to follow the rule: Plan your work and work your plan.

There are enough hours in the day for fun and relaxation as well as for studying, but

you may not get it all done unless you plan your time. If you do not have a time-table

to keep you on schedule, you may waste your time. This means that your homework

assignments will accumulate. The longer you wait, the more homework there will be.

The more homework there is, the less you feel like starting it. The longer you take to

start, the more homework there will be. Clearly it is not sensible to allow your

homework to accumulate. Plan a study schedule.

The kind of study schedule you plan will depend upon your class schedule, your

school and social activities, and the time that you eat and sleep. The exact

distribution of time is not important. What is important is that you make a schedule

that is realistic, one that takes into consideration your other activities, and your

own needs for each subject. Of even more importance,of course, is that you follow

your schedule regularly.

Before you plan a time-table for studying, analyze your weekly class schedule.

Count the number of class hours for each subject, and the number of hours that will

be necessary to complete the outside assignments. Here are some important points

to keep in mind:

1.   Be realistic.  Schedule for leisure time those times that you usually use for

leisure.

2.   For  courses  which  depend  largely  on  recitation  (such  as languages), plan a

study period Just before class. For example, in the evening before your English class,

read the assignment, check your comprehension, and record any vocabulary you do not

know. Then plan time just before class to review the reading and vocabulary. If the

assignment is a composition, write it as soon as possible, then review and possibly

revise it just before class.  This kind of thorough preparation will give you confidence

in class and increase your interest in the material.

3.   For courses that depend largely on lectures, plan a study period immediately after

the class. However, if there is an outside reading assignment, do the reading before

the lecture.This will make the material more meaningful, and, because it will be

familiar, you will be able to make better notes. Then immediately after the lecture,

plan to revise your notes while the material is still fresh in your mind. This kind of

review will also help when examination time comes.

4.   Many courses use both a lecture and recitation method of instruction.You will have

to plan or revise your schedule accordingly.

5.   Distribute your study hours rather  than  mass  them  all together. Experiments

have shown that learning is more effective if you space your practice. For example,

three separate one-hour study periods are better than three solid hours of

uninterrupted study. It is also better not to study a single subject for more than

several hours at a time. You begin to tire and it becomes difficult to concentrate.

Plan a short break during each hour, and change the subject you are studying

6.   Do not expect to learn material during the last few days before an examination by

cramming. Somewhere in your schedule allow time for a weekly review. During short,

regularly spaced periods of review, you can refresh your memory and bring yourself up

to date. More important, you will see the subject as a larger unit of related information

instead of a single hour of isolated material.

7.   Plan to spend at least two hours on outside preparation for each hour in class. This

is a minimum requirement, and it assumes that you read English as well as a native

speaker.You probably read much more slowly; therefore, your assignments are likely to

require more time than this minimum.

8.         Most important of all:  "Trade time, don't steal it." Naturally there will be

unexpected events which will interrupt the time you planned for study. When this

happens, rearrange your schedule so that the time is substituted elsewhere and not

completely lost.

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