Time management
Do you have enough time in your day? Do you leave things to the last minute? Setting and completing tasks, gives a sense of achievement.
Managing your time is especially important when your time at university appears less structured than at school or at work. Time management is also very personal. You may be taking different papers to your friends, or have signed up to different tutorials or on-campus activities. What works for your best friend may not work as well for you. After reviewing this section, you will have a better understanding of how much time you need to allocate for studying, and when you should allocate your study time to maximise your study efforts.
Time of day
Knowing what time of day you feel productive is an important step in creating your own study routine.
Urgent-Important matrix
One way to prioritise the many things you need to do in your life and study is by assigning urgency and importance to the things you need to do. The video below demonstrates how you can do that. This is similar to a to-do list, but instead of a list, you make a visual representation that also tells you what you should be prioritising. Things will move around depending on their urgency and importance, and the things you have done you can take the sticky note off and throw away in the bin.
What's your number?
Find out how many hours a day you need to spend studying. These numbers are based on how many points you are taking in the trimester, assuming you are only studying Monday to Friday. It also assumes that you are only studying for 12 weeks in the trimester, and does not include the two-week mid-trimester break. If you feel that you can't fit the hours in, you will need to consider adding study hours in the weekend, and over the mid-trimester break.