Studying requires concentration, dedication, time, conditions, an appropriate place, good light, and most importantly, it requires a willingness to do it. If a person has to study but really doesn’t want to do it, he doesn’t feel like it or is unwilling, surely the results obtained and the time wasted will become evident.
For this reason it is necessary to create a beneficial climate to be able to study, regardless of whether the student is a child, an adolescent, a young person or an adult. At every age there are things that are typically distracting and these are the ones we should avoid so that there can be concentration and a good study environment.
The place should be comfortable, ventilated, pleasant but without connection to the things that distract us such as views to the outside, cell phones, the computer with social networks, etc.
Concentration is one of the main ingredients in this recipe to achieve good results in the study. Each person knows each other and knows well what distracts them, therefore they should be avoided. On the other hand, concentrating on several things together is useless, you must focus on one at a time, which is why it is essential to distribute your time well.
We will give you several tips so that you know how to study so that the effort and time spent give you good results.
What do you need to study?
- Comfortable place with good light and away from the noise of the house and the street.
- Tranquility to concentrate.
- Distribution of time in study periods and recreation periods.
- Paper, pencil, markers, colored highlighters, ruler.
instructions to study
- Natural light is ideal to be able to read comfortably, without straining your eyes and, therefore, to study better. But if we sit next to a window that overlooks a place that distracts us too much, such as a street where cars and people pass constantly, noises, and any other distracting factor, we will surely have very good reasons to interrupt reading or studying, and so on. waste time. If you can, choose a window that doesn’t look directly at these kinds of distracting places, or a tall window that gives light but through which you can’t look, or that has curtains that allow light to pass through.
- When you start studying, turn off your mobile phone. Calls or messages from social networks never stop coming and are ideal for distracting you without need. If your friends really want to contact you about something important, they can call you at home and let you know, but the phone turned on next to your books becomes a good excuse to talk, laugh at a joke, look at a photo and lose concentration.
- Study preferably during the day. The night is to rest, so that the body and mind recover to start the next day well.
- If you have to study several subjects for the next day, distribute the time quickly so that you dedicate the time that each one requires and you have enough for all of them. If you don’t organize yourself, it can happen that you spend too much time on some and you have some left without studying. But don’t spend hours organizing or preparing the place and tidying up either because you’ll be falling into another good excuse for not studying.
- If you have to study subjects that require reading long texts, it is a very good technique to use underlining or highlighting the main and secondary ideas, then you can make a summary. When you write you are helping yourself to fix the idea, that is why it is good to read and then write making a summary, a comparative table, a scheme, drawings and everything that helps you to memorize or remember.
- Read the entire text first to find out what it is about, if necessary do it twice. Then she reads each paragraph and marks the main ideas with a color. Subsequently the secondary ideas with another. Finally, make the summary, table, scheme or concept map.
- If you have to study subjects like Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry you must do it with paper and pencil. These subjects are not learned only by reading and understanding but by “doing”. This is why you should do exercises and solve problems to make sure you really understand.
- If it is better for you to study accompanied, choose companions who really want to study, giving each other support in this task gives good results.
Tips for studying
- Always choose natural light to read and study, if you are right-handed the light should come from the left and if you are left-handed from the right to avoid making excess over what you write.
- Study for periods of 40 minutes and take a 5- minute break to get some fresh air, walk, change the environment, eat something or talk about something else. So you can focus again to continue studying.
- Turn off your cell phone and avoid visits by letting your friends know what your study hours are.