Everybody wants to be successful but success always comes with a price. Sitting under a tree and waiting for the apple to fall in your hands is not going to help you. You need to get up and pluck the apple. The same works for everything you do in life. In order to be successful, you need to work hard. If you conduct a survey or look at the graph of successful students, you will find a certain similar pattern in them. It is quite clear that successful people have a few common habits which help them reach the pinnacle of success.
1. Stay Organized
Studying in a random manner never helps. In order to achieve a good result, it is very important to study in an organized manner. Always prepare a proper time table and follow it. Before you prepare your schedule, analyse your strengths and weaknesses.
You must know which subjects need more preparation and where you have doubts. Preparing and following a schedule will help you to be ready for the exams in time. It will leave you with sufficient time for revision.
2. You Are Unique
Every student is unique and so are his/her capabilities. Someone might need an hour to prepare a particular topic whereas another student does it in half an hour. It is not right to prepare your study plan the way your friend has done. You have your own capabilities and your study schedule must be prepared to suit your own needs.
You cannot compare yourself with others, be it your study schedule or your marks and grades. You are your own self, unique in your own way and so, you are your own competition. Try to do better than what you have done in your previous exam but do not compare your grades with other students.
3. Set Appropriate Goals
The goals that you set for yourself should neither be too easy to achieve nor totally unachievable. They should be a little on the higher side so that it is challenging. Setting goals extremely easy to achieve makes you complacent whereas if the goal is unachievable, it makes you frustrated.
At the same time, you should set short term as well as long term goals. Short term goals could be getting excellent grades in exams, clearing the entrance exams with a high rank or getting admission in your dream college. Your long term goals could be related to your career. Setting long term goals is extremely important as your short term goals will depend on what your long term goals are.
4. Be an Effective Time Manager
Effective time management is a very important habit of successful students. It is not only time management during studies or managing time in such a way that you get sufficient time for relaxation as well as sleep. Time management also includes being able to manage the time during the exam.
It is a habit that you can easily develop by attempting mock papers and previous years question papers. Everything must be planned in advance to avoid any last minutestress and anxiety. For any kind of success in life, time management is a very essential habit.
5. Manage Your Work Space
Make it a habit to study at a place where there are minimum distractions and you can concentrate to the maximum. Your study space should be away from noise and other distractions like television.
It should be your comfort zone as that helps in increasing your concentration and thereby your productivity.
6. Take Proper Rest
Your schedule should be planned in such a way that you get sufficient sleep. An 8 hour sleep in necessary to keep healthy and fresh. Generally, students tend to burn the midnight oil with all nighters when they are preparing for competitive exams. You must remember that long hours will affect the health of an individual in the long run. A few all nighters are just fine but beyond a certain limit it will affect your health.
So give your mind and body the proper rest it needs and see the difference in your ability to comprehend and retain concepts. It will also have a positive impact on your concentration levels. Along with proper rest, taking proper breaks is equally important. Everybody has a saturation point. Once you reach the saturation point, it is necessary to take a break but make sure that it is a short break. During the break, indulge in non-addictive activities that you can easily stop and go back to your studies when refreshed.
It is said that if you do something continuously for a period of 21 days, it becomes a habit. If you apply this theory to develop the habits mentioned in this blog, you are sure to achieve success in your exams and studies as well. So go ahead and develop these habits and emerge a winner.
