Method for exam studies
Ten days since I finished my exams this year and I’m still not quite in holiday mode. Actually, I’m reminiscing that whole exam period because I’m being a freak right now. Every time I face exams I wonder how I got myself through the terrible period in all the previous exams. So here’s recording how I motivated myself to get through it this time:
- Short-term rewards: finish one topic and face a short break. As I got myself into an obsession with reading online love novels during exams, I rewarded myself by reading one chapter after every topic studied.
- Pause the music: only play music during the short break, even if it means pausing right in the middle of a favourite track.
- Practice papers in exam conditions: quiet space, limited time, full solitude and whatnot. When I couldn’t be bothered to write practice essays or long answers, I did a plan with bulleted points.
- Gathering
arroganceconfidence: bloat the small head with as much up-myself-ness as possible. Recite good course grades over and over again: Statistics 95.25% A+, Mathematics 97.9% A+, Economics 90.2% A+, Accounting 83.25% A-. Oh I’m so sure I can ace the exams. (Remembering to throw the darned Law 68% B- out the window because there’s no need to clutter up the mind with junk like that before exams. I can do so much better. Yeah, right.) - Get fat: eat lots and lots of junk food and chocolate. That way, it’s harder to get off the study chair to go out and mess around. This exam period was the time I spent the most on junk food. (But I also exercised because I didn’t actually want to get as fat as not being able to lift my pen to write during exams.)
- Shut MSN: but I can’t resist that hottie on my contact list! Well um, I’m sure, my disappearance for a couple of days will just make him admit to himself that he totally can’t live without me.
So that’s how I got through my doom this October/November. For the whole 12 weeks of the semester I kept telling myself I will read through my notes so I don’t need to study so much by exam time. Unfortunately, I still ended up cramming everything by writing summary exam notes during that very last week.
With the tips above though, I finished six weeks of Economics notes in two days, six weeks of accounting notes in one day, and the rest I didn’t need notes for. 
But I assure you, Economics was crazy load.
I have nothing to prove my final exam performance with yet; still waiting for exam results. How do you motivate yourself for work you really don’t want to do?
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