Your overcrowded academic schedule will be well managed if you follow these time management guide.
Academic pursuit is like juggling, you have a lot of things in the air and none of them must drop.
As an undergraduate, you have lectures to attend, assignments, test, project and other academic tasks to contend with every day. You'll probably have social activities to attend too.
How then do you combine all these stuff without getting stressed up?
Fam, it all boils down to time management.
But how are you supposed to go about this, here are five effective ways you can manage your overcrowded schedule.
1. Make a plan
The first plan to address time management issue is to make a plan and it's never too early to start this.
You can use planner Apps like Google Calendar or My Homework student planner to plan your schedule. Enter all your assignments for the week in the app including the deadlines for each of them.
Trust me, this will bring out the productivity in you if you follow it as you should.
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2. Have a to-do list
This seems pretty easy and very effective. All you need to is to have a list of what to do on paper and always keep at hand while working.
Keeping it very close helps you to keep track of what you've done, what is left to do and what to do next.
3. Attend all classes
Skipping classes is one of the habits that could disrupt your time management skill.
Why? This is because it takes much more time to learn the material of the class you missed than it would if you had attended the class.
Besides, that time you'll spend copying and making notes for the class you missed could be used for something more productive.
4. Do your assignments on time
Delaying your assignments till last minutes eats up your productive time and you need to avoid that if you really want to manage your time effectively.
This helps you to prepare better for examinations as you'll not be busy with the assignment when you are supposed to be studying for an exam.
5. Learn to focus
A lot of students find it difficult to concentrate while studying not only because they are surrounded by distractions but also because they allow their mind to zone out and wander away from the study.
That inability to concentrate while studying is an academic bane you need to get rid off and to achieve this, you'll have to take away everything that could constitute distractions to you study.
Take your phone away, use a timer for your study and you may also need to avoid studying with a friend if his or her presence won't let you stay focused.