Difficulties with reading for exams? Here are some tips to make it more pleasant

It's again this season of a year when all high school exams are tugged together and darkness eats all school motivation away. Also, some of us have job beside of school stuffs or another school studies like I do.
Two studies and a job, not so great combination but I must do what poor student must.

I'm also very lazy and not so motivated with exam readings so I started to try different ways to make reading for exams more pleasant. Remember, these are all my personal opinions. Everyone have their own way to make reading/studying more pleasant but I hope this helps ones who are similar with me.

1. Don't be hungry but don't stuff too much

When you're hungry, your mind is going to be capricious and your nerve doesn't stay calm longer than minutes. Eat before or during reading. If you decide to eat middle of studying, make sure you do it as a pause. Don't eat and read at the same time.
And don't stuff yourself too full, because you may become too tired to study or you start to think more your fullness than those words you should read from a book.

2. Make sure you keep as many short pauses as possible.

But don't make them last so long.
Pauses helps your brains rest a bit and keep yourself activate. Too much reading causes sight tiredness and your brain eats too much information for a once and then happens same as for you if you eat too much.

3. Don't be too harsh for yourself.

You can't be winner always. Some subjects are easier for you than others. Don't blame yourself if you feel like you never learn Swedish or math. Do always and at least your best.

4. Schedule your studying

If you have still time for reading, schedule it! You don't have to spend your whole week with reading.
Also, you can make random samples for those days of subjects you did study before. This helps when you have some other hobbies and you are not mood for reading. Schedule it for another day.

5. For language exams: Write a story (real or imaginary) for ex. about your day in your own language and then translate it to your subject language.

This surely helps you with casual words and also you can mix in words you've just studied. Use dictionaries etc with you and write as good as you can. Even if it's not grammatically right, you may get those important themes to remembered.

6. Think positively

If you start to lose your motivation, just think why you're doing this. You must have something for an award in the end. Road may seem long but you can't understand how fast it will go.

So, keep your head up and do your best!

This was good way to spend my short break. 

xx

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