How to Study

6. Gives you freedom and control. Contrary to many students’
fears, time management is liberating, not restrictive. A certain
control over part of your day allows you to be flexible with the
rest of your day. 
7. Helps you avoid time conflicts. Simply having all of your
activities, assignments, appointments, errands, and reminders
written down in one place helps ensure that two or three
things don’t get scheduled at once. If time conflicts do arise,
you will notice them well in advance and be able to rearrange
things accordingly. 
8. Helps you avoid feeling guilty. It is much easier to forget
about studying if you’ve already allotted the time for it. 
Without a plan to finish the work you are doing, you may 
feel like it’s “hanging over your head”—even when you’re not
working on it. 
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9. Helps you evaluate your progress. If you know you have 
to read an average of 75 pages a week to keep up in your 
business management class, and you’ve only read 60 pages 
this week, you don’t need a calculator to figure out that you
are slightly behind. And it’s easy enough to schedule a little
more time to read next week so you can catch up.
10. Helps you see the big picture. Effective time management
provides you with a bird’s-eye view of the semester. Instead 
of being caught off guard when the busy times come, you will
be able to plan ahead—weeks ahead—when you have big tests
or assignments due in more than one class. 
11. Helps you see the bigger picture. Planning ahead and 
plotting your course early allows you to see how classes fit
with your overall school career. 
12. Helps you learn how to study smarter, not harder. It may
well be possible that you will be so organized, so prioritized, so
in control of your time, that you can spend less time studying,
get better grades, and have more time for other things—
extracurricular activities, hobbies, whatever. 
Time management is not magic, though it can appear magical.