How To Win At College

course, the only way for this to work is to spread out all those harmless little chunks over a longer period of time. Hence the two weeks.

For the first week, just put in an hour or so of work on most days. Build your study system to allow for many small chunks of work, make the material familiar, and get a good feel for the information.

Instead, I am suggesting that you conduct no hard core all-day study sessions ever again. Break up those fifteen hours of studying into many

On a typical day we might use 2 hours for meals, 3 hours for classes, 11⁄2 hours for breaks

you can see, though 15 hours doesn't seem too bad at first, when we start to fit this allotted time into an already busy schedule, we realize just how many days we actually need to prepare for an exam without sacrificing copious amounts of sleep and sanit

Your schedule is busier than you think, and if you leave a large chunk of studying until the last days before an exam, you will be forced to sacrifice.