Fifteen Minutes To A Higher Grade Point Average
Adult students return to college with well defined goals, significant life experience, and maturity. In those areas they are generally ahead of their younger counterparts.
However, many adult students must overcome some challenges their younger counterparts never face.
Ask any adult student and he or she will tell you that it can be difficult to balance the demands of family, career, and education. Even online degree programs, which enable students to work anywhere they wish and set their own work schedules, require timely completion of assignments. And, students who find themselves continually behind are seldom successful.
Good time management skills and strong self-discipline, important to all students, are even more necessary to adults facing family, career, and academic demands.
And, even students with great time management skills often overlook one important technique. A technique which requires little effort but can pay big dividends.
You can't add hours to your day. And you can't add days to your week. But, you can find fifteen minute blocks of time to utilize for your schoolwork. And, just two such blocks of time each day will give you an extra three and a half hours of study time a week.
If you think about it, you'll realize just how much you can get done in fifteen minutes. You can revise your notes, review a difficult concept, reread a complex passage, email a classmate or professor, choose a topic for a paper, etc.
Fifteen minutes can be a significant amount of time; enough time to get something accomplished. And, for most people, it is not too difficult to find at least two fifteen minute blocks of time daily. How about getting up just fifteen minutes earlier every day and spending that time doing schoolwork? What about spending fifteen minutes at your office before going home at the end of your workday? Perhaps you could read while eating breakfast or lunch.
I know a college student who spends between fifteen minutes and a half hour on her schoolwork whenever she returns to her apartment. By the way, she has been on the Dean's List during all of her five college semesters.
Everyone can find two additional fifteen minute periods a day to spend on their studies. And, taking advantage of those small blocks of time really can turn a competent student into a high-achiever.
By: Daniel Kane
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However, many adult students must overcome some challenges their younger counterparts never face.
Ask any adult student and he or she will tell you that it can be difficult to balance the demands of family, career, and education. Even online degree programs, which enable students to work anywhere they wish and set their own work schedules, require timely completion of assignments. And, students who find themselves continually behind are seldom successful.
Good time management skills and strong self-discipline, important to all students, are even more necessary to adults facing family, career, and academic demands.
And, even students with great time management skills often overlook one important technique. A technique which requires little effort but can pay big dividends.
You can't add hours to your day. And you can't add days to your week. But, you can find fifteen minute blocks of time to utilize for your schoolwork. And, just two such blocks of time each day will give you an extra three and a half hours of study time a week.
If you think about it, you'll realize just how much you can get done in fifteen minutes. You can revise your notes, review a difficult concept, reread a complex passage, email a classmate or professor, choose a topic for a paper, etc.
Fifteen minutes can be a significant amount of time; enough time to get something accomplished. And, for most people, it is not too difficult to find at least two fifteen minute blocks of time daily. How about getting up just fifteen minutes earlier every day and spending that time doing schoolwork? What about spending fifteen minutes at your office before going home at the end of your workday? Perhaps you could read while eating breakfast or lunch.
I know a college student who spends between fifteen minutes and a half hour on her schoolwork whenever she returns to her apartment. By the way, she has been on the Dean's List during all of her five college semesters.
Everyone can find two additional fifteen minute periods a day to spend on their studies. And, taking advantage of those small blocks of time really can turn a competent student into a high-achiever.
By: Daniel Kane
Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com
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