Before I talk about how to spread your study time out over the exam period, I'll give you a rough guide for how much time you can be spending in study. This is the study guide that I use, and have used since 1A when I made it up. It allows for 12 hours of study per day, with 5 hours of ``break time'' for meals and rests, and 7 hours of sleep (rows marked with an asterix indicate ``study periods''):
7:00-8:00 Wake up (1 hour: shower, eat, psych up, etc...) 8:00-9:30 Study (1.5 hours) * 9:30-10:00 BREAK (0.5 hours) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00-Noon Study (2 hours) * Noon-12:30 BREAK (0.5 hours) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30-2:30 Study (2 hours) * 2:30-3:00 BREAK (0.5 hours) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3:00-5:00 Study (2 hours) * 5:00-6:00 DINNER & BREAK (1 hour) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00-7:30 Study (1.5 hours) * 7:30-8:00 BREAK (0.5 hours) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00-9:30 Study (1.5 hours) * 9:30-10:00 BREAK (0.5 hours) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00-11:30 Study (1.5 hours) * 11:30-12:00 BREAK (0.5 hours) 12:00 Go to bed. (I use the 11:30 to 12:00AM time slot for personal reflection. You may want to use it for sleep. That gives you 7.5 hours of sleep instead of 7.)
So, you can see that this suggested schedule gives you at most 2 hours of study time at a stretch, an hour for breakfast, a half hour for lunch, and an hour for dinner. I have arranged the times to flow easily around meal times and the times of the day when I am most ``out of it'' (note the weaker Evening schedule -- digesting your dinner takes more energy than other meals, usually, and I personally tend to be less concentrative at that time). You may want to re-arrange it to fit your own personal life schedule. I know some people like to study for 50 minutes and then take a 10 minute break, instead of doing big 1.5 or 2 hour stretches. Play around with it. But, you see just how much study time you can get out of the day, without more than the usual strain. It takes just over 11 days to make 140 hours.
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everyone has a different routine, and it's up to individual needs. some can study in the evenings while some can do so in the wee hours at night. for me i cant study after lunch, so its usually 3pm to 11pm for study, with small breaks in betw.
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