What Are Some Tips to Study Smart?

How many times have you thought if you can ever study and score better? Following a few things while studying would help you to remember in exams and get good grades. Here are some tips to study smart.

Focus

Get Fresh: Taking a shower/bath makes a person’s mind and body fresh. This would also helps to accept and understand new brilliant ideas.

Music: There is a lot of music that are available for study purpose. Study music keeps students away from stress and helps to stay focused during their study time. Researches show that certain kind of song is a great “key” for recollecting memories. Topics learned while listening to a melody can be usually recalled by playing the same song mentally.

Avoid distractions: While studying, stay focused. Avoid distractions like watching TV, using social networks and also most importantly, keep away any worries or depression.

Visual Techniques

Colors: Using a pale blue highlighter or any light shades of blue color will help in easy focusing. Mild blue can calm the mind and aid concentration.

Brain mapping: Brain mapping gives an overview of a topic or a project and it also makes it easier to add details.  Mind mapping helps to gets a good knowledge about the relationship between different ideas.

Drawing: An Amp note with visuals and colors makes it more aesthetically pleasing. It is found that students find it easier to recollect an image rather than a text.

Watch lectures online: Students usually tend to understand better when watching a lecture video as these videos allow them to play it as many times as they wanted to, helping them to clear their doubts. There are many channels that take big chapters or topics and break it down into small section for better understanding.

Be your own tutor and teach someone

Learn by yourself: Do not sit tight for your teachers or friends to teach you. Lectures are best when you initiate to introduce yourself to ideas. This way of study will expand ones knowledge too.

Teaching someone: This is the best way to learn a topic better. This forces you to learn the topic and also gives a better understanding.

Eating Habits that helps the brain

Eat breakfast: Breakfast is the most important meal of a day and there are a lot of people who skips it. Creativity and energy are at it’s best in the morning. Therefore, having breakfast makes you active through out the day and the brain advances some protein from it.

Dark Chocolates: These dark chocolate not only improve the ability to remember, but also increase the flow of blood to the brain. Chocolate with more than 85% cocoa is considered the best. More darker the chocolate is, the better it is for your brains.

Nuts: Nuts like almonds, walnuts and peanuts contain necessary fatty acids that favor brain to work well. These nuts also provide iron and oxygen to the brain that helps to remember information. 1.5 ounces (42g) of nuts is considered to be consumed a day for brain health.

Breaks

Short naps: It is common to feel stressed and tired while studying. A best solution for this is a 20-30 min power nap as it boosts energy and helps to focus in studies.

Take breaks: Taking 10-15min breaks every hour of studying is vital as it relieves stress and helps to remember all the information.

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