Jump Start Your Study Session With This!

Studying, at times, can be quiet a treacherous journey, especially if you have a crazy amount of content to cover. A study schedule can help transfer this stressful experience into a much more relaxed, organised and efficient one. In the past, I have come across numerous study timetable tutorials, however, none of them drastically helped. Hence, I came up with my own little study schedule, which I’m going to be sharing with all of you.

Follow the steps listed below to make your own study schedule that will jump start your study experience.

Step 1: Make a list of all the tasks you need to accomplish

This refers to a brief list of all the endeavours you decide to fulfil during the course of your study session. Noting down all of this helps bring more clarity and light into what exactly you need to achieve.

Step 2: Prioritize and sort

This involves sorting them depending on how time-consuming they are and how important they are. Make two columns naming them ‘Time Consuming’ and ‘Importance’ respectively. Now arrange the tasks you put down in the list in these columns, in descending order. Arranging them according to the time they take aids us in the next step and arranging them according to their importance simply provides more clarity and is optional to do.

Step 3: Sandwich planning

Now that you have everything sorted out, you can make use of this simple technique that I came up with called the ‘Sandwich Planning.’ This involves the sandwiching of a lengthy task between two smaller ones. Note that there is a 15 minutes break between each task and a 30 minutes break between each sandwich. You can keep repeating these sandwich cycles throughout your whole study session. If the number of tasks you have are not divisible by 3 and hence don’t fit into a proper sandwich, that’s alright, you can leave one of your sandwiches incomplete.

Step 4: Putting it all in a flowchart

Once you know what tasks you are going to sandwich together, draw it all out. Personally, I find flowcharts a lot easier to comprehend however, if you want to stick to the normal table method, you are welcome to do so.

Step 5: Set the time

Lastly, add time to your plan. Estimate how long each task will take you and add it there accordingly. Make sure you include the 15 minutes and 30 minutes break. With everything done, your study schedule should look something like this:

That is it for creating an effective study schedule. Now, you can study in an organised manner and make your study session a lot more effective. I hope you found this post helpful. If you have anything specific you would want me to write about, let me in the comments below. Stay safe!