Here’s How You Can Organize & Execute Your Study Plan

A study plan is an organized schedule that students create that sketches study times and learning goals. Students should develop a study schedule where they can block off days and times in their calendar dedicated to studying. Creating a study plan not only helps you become more organized, but it also holds you accountable for your own learning outcomes.

1. Create your time chart.

• First things first! Observe your daily life pattern for a week to understand and reflect it better in a plan.
• Get your lifestyle time chart including everything that you do in a day. (Wake up time, bathing, eating, time at school/ college, activities, time devoted to technology and everything).
• This will help you to determine which activities you can avoid and where you can incorporate your study time. It helps you schedule time for your everyday activity.

2. Determine your study goals.

• Once you have sorted your time chart, determine what you want to achieve with your studies.
• Determine your study goal that you wish to achieve over a period of time. 

3. Find out your learning style

• Once you figure out your study goals, observe and identify your learning style.
• Choose your comfortable style of learning. Be it whether aural, visual, verbal, logical and physical. Mark it in ascending order. 

4. Setting up a schedule

• Once you have figured out your study goals and learning style. Prepare a schedule that will fit well into your time chart.
• Assign it according to your understanding of what you can do and tailor it to your needs. 

5. After you create it, stick with it.

• It might be hard to follow it through but it’s important to stick to it so as to gain the maximum out of the scheduling.
• Make it a habit to follow it every day and make it a part of your routine.

6. Make your study zone

• Having your own fixed zone will help you focus and concentrate.
• Once it becomes your habit, you will naturally be affixed to be working in that zone and the moment you enter the zone you will automatically know that you need to study.
• Keep all the distractive material aloof from this zone. 

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7. Make follow-up notes every day.

• Digital era has made compilation easy. You can add notes, comments and remarks on your calendar.
• Make footnotes every day on the work completed and the progress you have made. Write what you felt about the session and also mention things that you need to follow it up the next day. 

8. Analyse your work every week.

• After having your footnotes, analyse it every week. Analysing your work and comparing your progress with previous weeks will help you to determine where and how to improve in the areas where you are weak. 

9. Don’t forget to give breather space

• One important component of making your study plan is to give it some breather space.
• Plan your schedule in a way that you can relax and ease through the day rather than stressing yourself with work after the other without any breathing gap.

10. Be flexible and realistic.

• The schedule is for you to follow and it should be unique to your personality and lifestyle.
• If you think you can work for two hours and be productive then do it. Be flexible and realistic. Being rigid with yourself is going to be detrimental to you and your plan.
• Keep it simple and do it the way you can and want to do it.

Having a plan will definitely bring you on track and discipline your life which is important in any career that one might choose. Planning is an effective tool to help you achieve your goals. So, what are you waiting for? Go plan your study schedules!

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Reshma Ganeshbabu is an intern with SheThePeople.TV.