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day, you are sure to revise well before exam. Once you start making such charts you
would be habituated to make charts for any assignments.

6. Allocate time for breaks:
Making a timetable is not an easy task. While making, do make time for breaks in
between. You might get up for your bath or using washroom, you need to wash your
clothes, you need to clean the room, etc. All these can be considered as break. Then
include your dinner, lunch, breakfast as well. Even listening to music at interval of 3 or 4
hours is not bad. Breaks bring back enthusiasm while studying.

7. Sleep well:
Students often study without taking rest. Sleeping during the afternoons are often
advisable to give rest to your brain and eyes. You would feel that you are fresh after that
break of sleeping. Don’t try to be nocturnal. Students are advised to take minimum of 6-7

hours of sleep during night. You can then cope up with the study next day.
8. Taking Notes:
Students who take short notes while studying find it useful while revising during
the exam time. Notes can be in the form of brief one or bullet points. Some students write
in pictured format denoted with different symbol to recollect during exams. Such notes

come in handy. This can be followed when you find the subject to be difficult to study.
9. Write legibly:
If you start your preparations early then you would have time for writing down
neatly. Students often tend to think that making notes is just to copy paste activity. It is

not so. The notes are to be written legible on what you have understood of the topic.
Don’t scribble it out. You are going to refer for exam later on, so make sensible notes.
10. Using highlighters:
Students often use to underline in the books to make note of important points. By
using highlighters it will help student to know which important note to be remembered

were. Using keywords is also useful to remember the importance of the topic that is being
revised.
11. Headings and sub headings:
While making notes, it is useful to separate the topics with heading and sub

headings below it. It not only makes the points to be separated out but helps the student to
remember what the main subjects under it were.
12. Using flow chart:
Students can adapt the method of drawing flowchart to remember the various steps
involved. They need to judge where they can take notes depicting flowcharts. Such

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