How to Study

Why Do All This?
An organizational or time-management system that fits your needs
can help you get more work done in less time. Whether your prior-
ity is more free time, improved grades, a less frantic life—or all of the
above—learning how to organize your life and your studies can help
you reach your objective, because an effective time-management 
system:
1. Helps you put first things first. Have you ever spent an
evening doing a time-consuming assignment for an easy class,
only to find that you hadn’t spent enough time studying for a
crucial test in a more difficult one? 
2. Helps you learn how long everything really takes. One
of the important components of this system is estimating how
long each task will take you and tracking how long you actually
spend doing it. Once you’ve inculcated this concept into your
life, you’ll finally discover where all that time you’ve been 
“losing” has been going. 
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3. Reduces your tendency to procrastinate. Once you have
a realistic idea of the specific things you must accomplish and
know that you have allocated sufficient time to do so, you’re
less likely to get frustrated and put them off.
4. Helps you avoid time traps. Time traps are the fires you
have to put out before you can turn to tasks like studying.
Time management is like a fire-prevention approach rather
than a fire-fighting one: It allows you to go about your work
systematically instead of moving from crisis to crisis or whim
to whim. 
5. Helps you anticipate opportunities. In addition to helping 
you balance study time with other time demands, effective
time management can help make the time you do spend
studying more productive.