Time Management

Write up than was anticipated, but some Maths problem may take a ,lot longer to solve. Moreover, you will certainly find that the : mount of work required for each course varies from week to week. Nome weeks you may only be required to attend lectures and to do a couple of hours additional study. Other weeks, when a major essay a report on a complex experiment is due, you may need to spend of your time on this work and almost totally neglect work for . your other courses. Unlike the regular patterns of high school learn­

university study has very uneven rhythms. Some first-year students complain that the academic year starts gently with four weeks relatively little pressure, and thereafter it is eight months of per­petual crisis.

So some form of planning does seem useful. In fact we suggest it useful to use two styles of planning: one which is time-centered and maps out your fixed commitments and deadlines, and one which is task-centered and brings some order into your independent study me. For the first few weeks of the year you will need a weekly we table to remind yourself of fixed commitments such as lectures, and tutorials, sports practices, club meetings and so on.

This schedule will soon become so familiar, as the weeks go by, that you need to look at it very often. But it is also useful to draw up a longer-range plan month, or a term, in which you out the important deadlines for assignments, tests, holiday dates and other commitments that fall within this period.

It cov­ers period of five weeks (the second half of one term) and was : constructed by a Science undergraduate who was studying second­ .year Maths, Physics, Chemistry, plus an optional course in Science german. The shaded area at the end of each week indicates the day he set aside for sport and social activities

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