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Time Management
Strategies
for Undergraduate Studies
All
students are different. They hoe different capabilities, different
motivations and different ways of studying. So no single system
study will suit everyone. Nor is there - as you will already yourself
- any one strategy or magic formula which will automati cally ensure
success.
Nevertheless,
from our work with students, we have found there some strategies
for study which, used flexibly, do see helpful than no strategies
at all. They cover the problems already mentioned in earlier chapters:
(1) time management (2) lectures and note-taking, (3) tutorials
and lab session, (4) reading and library research (5) written assignments,(6)
revision and exams.
We shall now look at each of these :drawing on the experience
of both overseas and Australian students. Our purpose is to suggest
ways in which you may avoid unnecessary strain in adjusting to study
abroad.
Some
students find they work more efficiently if they can set themselves
a detailed daily and weekly study timetable for , a whole term or
semester. They allot regular periods for all rest activities as
well as plotting hourly study sessions. This approach to : time
management follows the pattern familiar from secondary : It seems
to be a common strategy among Science and Technology students whose
study is dominated by lectures and lab sessions, therefore, predictable.
Yet
this predictability can also cause is, problems. If, for example,
some unexpected event occurs sickness or the need to repeat an unsatisfactory
experiment - the whole scheme appears to be in ruins, and much time
can be wasted in drawing up a revised but equally rigid schedule.
Most
students find, in practice, that they cannot keep to tailed hour-by-hour
timetables. A lab report may take less time to
single
system study
some
Maths problem
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