Take care of your health

Health is very important part as it affects our physical stamina. Being healthy is equally necessary. So I will list a few things which if followed would keep you healthy and peaceful.

1. Yoga : praticing yoga everyday will keep your mind calm and relax and accelerate many of your daily activities. Yoga is also helpful to increase concentration.
2. Eating fruits daily :  one must make a habit of eating fruits daily. Because it gives many benefits to our body and keeps us fit and fine.
3. Avoid tea or coffee during night : Consuming tea or coffee to study late night is very harmful. One must strictly avoid this habit. It cause many ill effects.
4. playing outdoor games for half an hour at least :  playing outdoor is also good as it gives energy and refreshment for studying for the next hours. 

Easy way to revise the topics

Making a board for important topics:

• This could be the best way to revise the topics you have studied. 
• It only requires a board and pins and you can just put your important notes and go through it whenever you want.
• You can put any important formulas, diagrams, notes and many more.
• Also the answers you feel difficult to recall, you just put it on the board and just read it everyday. Within few days you will see that you have byhearted that answer.
• You can also put reminders of any test in school,colleges so that you won't forget. put the marks you have scored in previous exam and keep an aim to score more than that marks in next exam.
• Trying this method will surely increase your interest in studies and you will enjoy doing this.
• Do comment on this after using this method. I would be happy to hear form you all.

Make best use of weekends for study..

I know most would not even like this topic upfront as it gives a hint of spoiling your enjoyable weekends. But that is not the intention of this article which you would appreciate towards the end of the article. This article aims at helping you to make use of the latent time during weekend mornings in a really enjoyable way. This is just a suggestion which will work for most of you guys but al last it is up to you to make your own schedule.

How you can make use of the 'latent' weekend mornings?

• Most youngsters tend to sleep till 10 or 11 am in the mornings. While it is perfectly understandable this kind of rest is very essential to come out of the academic stress that you could had encountered throughout the week, it is also important to note that making use of this time for preparation has several benefits. The time we are talking is specifically around 6 am till 9 am.
• now lets see the benefits of studying in the early mornings.
• Still there is plenty of time left in the day:
• When you complete a preparation session, it would still be 10 am and you would have the entire day waiting for taking before. This means a lot. You will have a lot of time to visit your friends, to play cricket, to go to a movie etc. Thus you will enjoy your weekend very well and also you have utilized your time for studies.
• You are tremendously efficient in the mornings:
• Generally mornings are disturbance free and hence your efficiency will be at peak during mornings. Especially weekend mornings are the ones when even your parents and brothers/sisters could be still be sleeping. This means you have absolutely no disturbance and it is not bad to say that by preparing for 4 hours you actually can gain equivalent to a preparation for several more hours at any other time of the day.
• You can even create a self reward plan for yourself:
• Now comes the most enjoyable art. Consider a part of the portion or a chapter of the subject. Now you reward yourself like "Today if I complete this chapter or this much part of the syllabus,  I will go for  a movie in the evening and so on." By doing this, you will actually feel good and enjoy your leisure time to the fullest without having any guilt that I am enjoying without studying.

Solving Model Papers

Collecting previous year question papers give you a rough idea about the type of question and marking schemes. Also solving the paper with the proper time will help to practice time management and also utilize the hours for rechecking which eliminates most of the silly mistakes and others errors. Analyzing previous years papers also lets you know your learned material and the amount of revision you need and also gives you new unseen questions. After completing the syllabus, one must surely go through the model papers to gain confidence.  

playing with subjects

Studying must be made enjoyable by applying different methods. If we enjoy studying, we will surely get good marks. There are various methods and techniques to make studies more fun and easy to memorize the topics. In the today's world of technology and internet, studying can be made much more interesting. I am going to explain some methods which I have used during my studies and have really helped me to bring my interest in studies.

• MAKE POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS: Select a topic which you want to learn and make PowerPoint presentations. Use diagrams,figures, formulas,flow charts, graphs to make presentation more effective. You can also get the pictures and other help from internet. After completing the ppt, you can discuss it and demonstrate the topic with your friends,family or you can give a presentation in the class to help other learn that topic easily. This will make you remember that topic for a long time and you will never feel hard to memorize any answer related tot hat topic.

• RANDOM TOPIC STUDY FOR REVISION: This technique is good while you are revising your portion for exams. Take a textbook of the subject you want to study and revise. Then turn the pages randomly and put a finger on any topic without seeing. Then revise that topic completely and then repeat this procedure again. Doing this will let you study for a longer time than usual.

• SEARCH FOR VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET: In the world of internet, everything has become easy. You can search for the topic on the internet and you can get the video of any topic you need. Instead of only reading the text, visualizing the actual video will help you memorize the topic more easily.

• KEEP SWITCHING BETWEEN SUBJECTS: It is obvious that studying continuously for a long time  lowers the concentration and interest. For this you can switch between the subjects. You can take a gap and study your favorite subject or solve maths and then again return to your previous subject. This will help you study for more time.

Be Prepared

* Time management :

# We must always set the time table for completing the syllabus.

- According to the syllabus, make a schedule and prepare a deadline to complete the syllabus.

Also the time table must include proper time for revision which is very important.

- We must be prepared with everything before the exams. we must not leave anything. we must be regular and punctual. 

* Learning and remembering :

# we always remember the initial chapters of any subject more than the middle and final chapters. This teaches us to pay special attention to the final chapters of the book which are revised the least number of times.

# It is a good habit to read a chapter at least once before it is taught in class. It is a fact that if we already know what is being taught in class, our attention improves and we learn more effectively.

# solve past years question papers and get it checked and see your result.

  Look at the mistakes you made and correct them because you have a got a chance to improve it. Look at your time management skill of completing the paper before time and giving time for revision.

  Practice this to your best.

Meditation

* The best way to relax and improve your concentration :

# For natural meditation relax yourself in your chair. Close your eyes and try to be still. Take a deep breath. Breathe easily and naturally. Breathe in and out for 10 to 15 minutes. When you have finished, sit quietly for few minutes. First with your eyes closed and then with your eyes opened. do not stand immediately. Pray God for a while and ask God to help you in your work. Start your work. You can also recite the saraswati mantra before starting your studies. it will surely help.

# Whenever you are feeling frustrated, repeat the words 'RELAX' ,'CALM DOWN' again and again and see the difference for yourself.

# If you like chess, you can play this game as this game requires serious concentration and thinking. It helps to learn to focus.

* Five keys to concentrate:

FEEL COMPLETELY
LISTEN CLOSELY
WATCH CAREFULLY
THINK CLEARLY
MOVE CONFIDENTLY 

FLOW TIME

F feel
L Listen
W Watch
T Think
M Move

As you start to repeat one of the 5 keys to yourself, you actually begin to feel,listen,watch,think and move with your work.
Experience or doing a particular work continuously or repeatedly needs less concentration and less effort.