Time Management Tips

• Prioritize your time. You'll have to make choices about your activities if you want to do well in school.
• Avoid stress, burnout and failure by planning your work.
• Pack your school materials the night before so that you wont have to scramble early in the morning.
• Use a planning calendar to keep track of all the tasks you have to accomplish each day.
• If you don't have a syllabus or a planning calendar, be sure to write down your homework instead of trying to just remember it.
• Learn the material the first time you see it. DOn't delay your learning until the night before a test.
• Use your class time fully. If you have a few minutes to spare in class, use that time to review your notes or to start your homework rather than to just stare at the clock.
• Study your most difficult or boring subject first while you are most alert.
• Think of the little blocks of time that most of us waste as potential work time. When you have an extra 15 minutes, plan to use it for a quick review of your notes.
• Work steadily. Cramming all night is not productive.
• Learn to use a computer. You'll get the job done much faster than if you try to do everything by hand.
• When you have a big project to do, set deadlines for accomplishing parts of it well in advance of the final deadline.
• Pace yourself by watching the clock during a timed assignment.
• Set aside a 2 hour block of time each night for studying. Even on the nights when you don't have assignments, you should spend this block of time reviewing and studying.
• Avoid study sessions that last for hours. After a while your concentration begins to lag. Instead take a 3-5 minute break every 30 minutes or so.
• Become aware of the time of day when you are most alert and use it to study efficiently.
• Complete your homework the night before it is due. Don't count on stealing time form other classes  to finish what you should have done at home.
• Schedule several small bits of time to finish a long term project. Try to turn in your projects early.
• Don't spend too much time on a particular subject if this causes you to neglect other topics.
• Do all tasks well the first time so that you don't have to repeat them.
• Become aware of just how and when you procrastinate. Take the steps necessary to get this bad habit under control.
• Use your daylight hours to study as often as you can. Most people are more alert then.
• Allow enough time to study. Five minutes before a big test just isn't enough.
• Looking over your notes is a huge waste of time. Study actively with a pen in hand. Write down the information.
• Learn to concentrate. In class and when you are studying at home, make sure you focus your energy into learning.
• Attend class. those students who attend class do better than those who don't. Be one of them.
• Make "doing your best" a priority. You are the person who determines your present and future.