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The Study Plan Schedule Strategy (That Actually Works!)
Last Updated on May 1, 2019
This is a guest post by Niklas Goeke. Niklas is a freelance writer and coach on coach.me. Action is his cure to anything, so he won’t be mad at you if you cut some corners and jump right into the mini-course that helps you implement a study schedule.
Do you find yourself procrastinating a lot when trying to study?
Can you not keep up with the amount of materials with your current study schedule?
Do you maybe even pull all-nighters, cramming as much as you can the night before an important test?
Then it’s time for a study plan schedule that works! Recently I helped my friend Ted set up his study plan so he could take 7 exams in 10 days.
Here’s us revising his statistics material on a recent call:
(the material being in German doesn’t make it easier)
Thanks to his new study schedule, he passed 6 of them with flying colors! Felix Wong even took it a step further and completed an MBA in 4.5 months. Getting an MBA takes most people 2+ years and tens of thousands of dollars. Felix did it in 135 days, paying less than $3000. This would have been impossible, had Felix not had an incredible study plan.
Steve has already shown you 11 good study habits. So you should already have a good study routine, so today we’ll take a closer look at each one and show you how you can implement them right away.
What will you accomplish with a new and excellent study routine? Finish your degree? Write a paper? Ace a presentation? There’s no time to waste, let’s go!
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Step 1: Find out your learning style
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. ~ Peter Drucker If you don’t know how you learn best, it will be impossible for you to learn efficiently at all. There are 5 different styles of learning, all of which fall into one of two groups.
1. If you are a visual learner, you will understand the 5 different styles best by looking at this picture, since images and a sense of spatiality help you get a grip on things:
2. Should you be an aural learner, you pick up things by hearing and listening closely. Watching this TED talk about learning styles will probably help you understand the concept much quicker than reading through this section.This also means music and sounds will help you while studying.
Try listening to some kind of white noise, like rain sounds while you learn. Listening to one song on repeat (especially classical music and instrumentals) can also help you focus.
3. Maybe you are a verbal learner. Using words in writing and speech comes natural to you. You win the ‘blog lottery’, because reading articles works perfectly for you.
Try to repeat out loud what you remember about the 5 learning styles after you finish this section to see if speaking helps your memory.
4. If you are a physical learner you’ll prefer using your body, touching things with your hands, and are focused on the feelings you get while doing whatever you’re trying to learn.
