Friday, 19 June 2015

Tips for Management Time for Collage Students

Tips for Management Time for Collage Students
Many students discover the need to develop or hone their time management skills when they arrive at college. Unlike high school where teachers frequently structured your assignments and classes filled your day. In college, Between going to class, doing the homework, taking the tests, perhaps holding down a job, raising a family—well, how's a mere mortal supposed to do all this stuff? It boils down to managing your time. But how are you supposed to do that?Take a look at these six quick tips for getting a grasp on the busy life of a working student.
1.             Read and Block your courses calendar
Sometimes the best advice is among the simplest: One of the first and most important steps in achieving successful time management in college is to read your course calendars carefully.
“[A course calendar] is your best friend,” says Matthew Schlager. If you know the due dates for specific assignments and the time frames for quizzes, papers and exams, you’ll be able to spread out the necessary school work.

2.             Make a Plan and Schedule
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Write down everything in one place. Schedule when you plan to sleep, when you are going to do your laundry, when you're going to call your parentsThe crazier your schedule gets, the more important this becomes.
Do you have a large research paper due the last week of the semester? Work backward in your calendar and figure out how much time you need to write it, how much time you'll need to research it, and
how much time you'll need to pick your topic. If you think you'll need six weeks for the entire project, work backward from the due date and schedule the time into your calendar before it's too late.

3.             Make Checklists
Printing or writing out checklists for each class or each day of the week can be a helpfulway of remembering everything you need to get done. “You can check [each item] off after you’re done with it.

4.                Stay Organized
Keeping your school work organized can be a huge factor in saving you some time throughout the week, especially if you’re taking more than one class at a time. If you have separate binders, notebooks and folders for each class, you will quickly be able to find that sheet of notes you need for next week’s test or the printed article you planned to reference for your big research paper.
Avoiding clutter isn’t just important when organizing your notes and hand-outs. Be sure to keep your computer desktop organized in a way that always allows you to locate the files you’ll need for each particular class.






5.                Be Healty
This may seem like the kind of advice you heard from your mother and now pass down to your own kids in the form of warm socks in the winter, sunscreen in the summer and daily vitamins year-round, but it can actually play a huge role in successfully managing your time while in college.





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