Ten Tips to Stay Calm, Avoid Stress, and Study More Effectively
While mainly focusing on the Bar Exam, this article has some great tips on how to study for ANY exam.
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The bar exam starts Tuesday, July 28. What can bar candidates do to avoid stress and panic, and so study more effectively, during these intense final weeks? Bar-exam expert Dr. Mary Campbell Gallagher, President of BarWrite®, which offers bar-preparation courses in New York City, asked her students for ideas for reducing stress and maximizing study results, and she chose these ten suggestions:
- Make a realistic daily schedule that includes both study and exercise. Plan for variety in your studying, and stick to your plan. Get up early and do your most challenging studying first. Take a five-minute break every hour. Work steadily. Do not aim for speed, which just causes stress and reduces how much you can learn.
- Pray. Do yoga. Use meditation or hypnosis tapes. Get a full-body massage the last week.
- Stay away from electronic devices which intensify stress, Facebook, MySpace, blogs, text messaging, and email. Turn your cellphone off. Use earplugs while studying.
- Get plenty of sleep.
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Ten Tips for Staying Calm, Avoiding Stress, and Studying More Effectively
One of the most important things that you can do during studying is stay calm and avoid all the stress. Some of the things that I have done in the past is stress out about test and it doesn’t help at all because you tend to lose focus on the subject at hand and lose a lot of the knowledge you have retained in your brain housing group. Some of the things that will help alleviate the stress that comes with taking a test is to properly prepare a time line of events that you stick to while studying. Make sure you include in your time line time for rest and relaxing so you give your brain a break from the working that you have been doing. If you don’t take breaks it will over work your brain and you will forget most of the work that you have been working on. When making a plan you need to make sure you stick to your plan. Also put in time for exercise to help build the stamina that it takes to continue studying and focus on your exams. Just remember that it is natural to stress a little bit, but there are ways to alleviate the stress and pain of studying.
October 31st, 2009 | #
Great site. Well done.
December 2nd, 2009 | #