Hello everybody, I'm Christina and today I'm gonna bring you along a day in my life
of revision. Now I know that revising for a whole entire day is not easy, it's not
easy on your mind, it's not easy on your body, it's just not easy let alone if you have to
revise for a whole entire day or a whole entire week or longer than that depending on
when you have your exams on top of that you have stress because you know your
exams are coming, you have deadlines still and it's just it's just not an
easy task and I completely know that and I understand that however we have to do
it so I thought that in this video I will also bring you some tips that works
for me personally in the hopes that you can do the same thing or adapt it to
yourself and in the hope that it will help you. On the days when I'm revising I
usually wake up between 6:30 and 7:30 but I am a morning person I work
really well when it's light outside and I start being way less productive when
the Sun Goes Down so that's why I wake up this early
because I know that my productivity hours are in between sunrise and sunset
if you're a person who naturally tends to be more focused when it's dark
outside then what's the point in forcing yourself to wake up a sunrise if you're
not going to be productive until 10:00 a.m. right if you're not going to be
productive until 10:00 a.m. and you will be productive until later at night then
make the most of what you can do Revise more at night if you are more
focused at night and then get your sleep I usually sleep eight hours otherwise
I'm not as focused so get your sleep time in full do not sleep less in order
to revise for longer hours but be smarter about how to revise, how you plan
your revision and how you spend your day of revision the second thing that I
always always do is I make my bed and I get ready for the day. I revise in my
room but that doesn't mean I could spend a whole entire day sitting at my desk in
my PJs that's not good for me, It's not good for my mindset is not good for my
body so I usually shower make my bed I get ready and I make sure that my
environment is tidy. Tip number three I think we are at this point always always
make it a to do list in the morning before I start studying based on that to-do
list I decide what I have to prioritize on the day and how long things are going to
take me or how long I think it is going to take me to do
So based on that I will plan my day. Now I usually do this on my planner but you
don't have a planner you don't have to just whip out a piece of paper and write
it on that. When I plan out my day I try and give myself breaks to do other
things that are not sitting at my desk revising my that I do not mean go to
youtube and watch a YouTube video I might do that while having lunch for
example as a general rule I try and do other things that still keep me going so
I'm still productive. So for example if I studied for two hours then I take a half
an hour break and then in that half hour break I will maybe do my laundry or tidy the
room that I messed up throughout the day. I do think that not sitting at my
desk and revising but it's still me being productive and doing something instead
of being sitting there watching a video or scrolling through social media which
we all know that once you go on Instagram and you look at your feed
you're not going to be able to log off after the half hour you said you were
gonna be on it. Get out of your house or get out of the place your revising in.
So for example I revise in my room, I stay at my desk and revise at my
desk because I'm not one to go to library and revise because the library
just stresses me out but if you're someone who's revised
then if you're taking a lunch break then go to the hub and have lunch there
so your changing environment your in. Also something that I think is really
cool that our university offers is our revision week events. During revision week
AUSA organizes events that you can go to to get your mind off revision and have a
small break we have goats this year we always have therapy dogs which I love,
free pizza as well and this year at the bottom floor of the library we also have
the SOS room now I went to visit the SOS room just today and I think it's really
cool I got to make little stories and I got to like put piece of paper and hang it to the tree
It's just a nice way of taking a break. doing something that is
not revising and doing that in a place that is not the same place in which you
are studying. Another thing that I try to do every single day when I'm revising is
do some form of exercise now it has been proven that exercise enhances the
effectiveness of your study. It is not something that someone has just made up
there's actually scientific Studies on it
and i had to google it because i want to be as precise as possible.
Exercise releases endorphins which reduce stress levels make you happier among
other thing so working out gives you energy and also makes you happier and
less stress so there you go work out every day
for at least a little bit to be more productive, more happy and less stressed
The final tip I'm going to give you is see and talk to other people. Don't spend the
time alone with your thoughts get distracted by talking to someone else.
For example I try and put two and two together so when I do my workout for
today I go to dance classes at dance Society and in that environment I can
see other people I can talk to other people and I can socialize while taking
a break a while producing the hormone that makes me less stressed. And with
that I'm gonna end this video I hope you guys enjoyed it and I will see you again
in another one bye