11 Powerful Ways to Study Smart
- Basmah Abdullah Zahid
- Sep 19, 2020
- 4 min read

Are you wondering how to conquer success in your field? How will you manage your studies along with your job? Or you are looking for ways of smart and effective studying methods?
In this blog, will give you super exciting and fun ways of studying SMARTLY and EFFECTIVELY. Believe us you can manage both your job and your advance studies.
Here are 11 ways to study smart and effectively:
1. Schedule your week:
At the beginning of every week, take your note pad and schedule down the whole week. That timetable will work as a BLUEPRINT for you to reach your goals. Have you ever given it a thought that how every athlete out there was scheduling everything? They decide when to practice, when and what to eat and even their sleep routine, this technique helps them to stay fit and prepared.
So, to keep yourself on track you should first schedule your week.
2. Spaced Repetition:
Did you know? 50% of what you learn today will vanish from your brain exactly the day later and you won't be able to remember it after a while - this process is called Ebbinghaus Curve.
The Ebbinghaus Retention Curve, also known as the forgetting curve, shows the rate at which memories are lost over time. It is named after Hermann Ebbinghaus, a pioneering researcher of human memory.
So here comes the rule for Spaced Repetition - When you are studying, try to write them down in Notes, in a colourful illustration, in short videos or any other attractive way that helps you to keep that information stick to your memory.
3. Depth of Processing:
The depth of processing is the method in which you will not just read from your books, it means to try to learn from different platforms or you can try to research to get more information and more knowledge regarding your topic.
Believe it or not, it will also help you resist the Ebbinghaus Curve.
4. Find your Productive study space:
Once you set your schedule and goals, it's time to set your study corner. Find a space where you will learn and explore the WORLD.
A proper study corner helps you to keep yourself motivated and focused, it helps you to follow the BLUEPRINT you write down every week.
5. Cut off distraction:
Yes! When you get your quiet corner just cut off all the Distractions like your cell phone or social media, just leave that for a while. To maintain your focus it's really important.
6. Increase your motivation to Study:
Would suggest you all to place motivational quotes in front of your study table or where ever you like to, it will help you to stay motivated to your dreams.
If you want to be successful in future try to stay focused and motivated towards your goals. So figure it out what you want to achieve.
7. Build effective study habit:
To achieve your goals for a bright future, you have to build effective and healthy habits. Follow the following steps:
- Wake up Early.
- Do Workout.
- Take Healthy Breakfast.
- Take notes, set daily or weekly goals.
- Start studying for two or three hours.
Add these steps in your life for a week or two weeks, then it will become a part of your habit.
8. Know what to FOCUS:
Once you sit to study a bunch of subjects or topics, figure it out which subject or topic needs to be done first and what needs to be done later.
If you are not prioritizing your tasks - you will be lost and you will not able to complete anything.
9. Work Hard:
Keep in mind, whatever effective and healthy routines or habits you adopt you will not be able to achieve anything if you are not working hard.
So Work Hard as much as you can - it does not mean you have to study all day - it's mean study smartly and effectively, but along with other activities that make people happier. Do enjoy family time, read fiction or magazines, watch Netflix or play sports, don't quit these things from your life.
Make your life - ahhh - Manageable.
10. Study like a Lecturer:
A huge secret to study effectively is to do it like a lecturer, whatever you like to study whatever is your topic - try to do research, study that topic in-depth and take notes like your lecturer/professor.
11. The Loci Method:
To remember what you have learned - try the superbly effective method that is 'The Loci Method. Take small notes on colourful sticky notes and place them in your room, dining room, kitchen or anywhere in your house. Just turn the environment around you into the Wealthy Palace of Education.
Are you wondering how it will help you to memorize? For a moment, imagine you are in your kitchen, cooking your dinner - You can easily recall all those sticky notes you placed in your kitchen - it helps you to remember what you have learned in previous days.
The Loci method is a strategy of memory enhancement, which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information. The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, a memory palace, or mind palace technique.
These are the 11 ways that have been followed by the most successful students out there. Follow these effective ways of studying and shine like a SUPERSTAR in your field of expertise.
Remember!
There is no end to education - There is no end to the things you learn
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