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YOUR LEARNING to your course each day. If you cannot spare one
SCHEDULE or two hours, work on the lessons for 45 min-
utes or even for half an hour, whatever time you
When considering your schedule, it’s important can spare.
to plan ahead. Think about how may days a week
Keeping regular success hours is the key to ef-
you need to set aside for studying, what time of
fective learning. You can learn and remember
day would work best, and how many hours you
much more from studying 30 minutes daily
think you might need to complete your lessons.
than from longer sessions spaced several days
But don’t just think of them as “study” hours or
apart. Studying regularly keeps the instruction
even “learning” hours; think of them as “success”
fresh in your mind. If three or four days pass
hours, because every minute you spend on les-
between study periods, you may forget most of
sons brings you that much closer to success.
what you learned from your last session. Once
As we said, you should decide which days are you have planned your study schedule, stick to
best for you to work on your lessons. Then you it. Skipping one success hour in an emergency is
should decide on the time of day that would be not going to set back your progress a great deal.
best for you. Now, make up your own personal However, skipping a session for no real reason
learning schedule, like the one in Figure 4. On can lead to skipping another session and then
your calendar for each month, write in the days another one, until eventually you are making
and times you will study. Space your learning little or no progress in your lessons. Do not let
sessions—your success hours—close together. this happen to you!
The ideal arrangement is to devote some time
Figure 4: A typical student’s learning schedule. Student has built schedule around favorite TV programs.
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