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Okay so I am in senior year. Here 12th grade is VERY important..My admissions into a good college will be only on the basis of the marks I score in my "board examination" which is held at the end of the year. The papers are not checked by my teachers but by some other teachers who don't know me and are teaching in some other school. This is done to make the examination fair. The cutoffs for any college where i live (new delhi) are CRAZZY. I mean nothing below a 475/500 is acceptable.
I have Physics, Chemistry, Computer science, English and Maths as my subjects.
Im telling you all of this just so that you know there is a lot of pressure to perform well.. and I have to in order to get a good college.
Ive just been real distracted for a while. I don't know how to concentrate on my studies. I dont feel like sitting with my books. It is freaking me out because every day matters to me. Please help!!!!! (link)
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Honestly, be healthy. Getting yourself into a routine which includes studying will help you focus.
8 hours sleep every night. 3 meals a day with a few snacks (fruit or something) whenever you can manage it. Set out your study time, study for half an hour and take a 10 minute break, then do it all over again.
The breaks during studying help your mind relax, past half an hour your retention drops if you don't let your mind rest a little bit. Get a movie you like, a book, something that will take your mind entirely off studying for a few minutes, then put it down and go back.
Plan out your studying so you can cover new material. The key to repetition is giving your mind time to go over something, giving it time to forget, then going over it again. Things will stick, others won't, and you can refocus on the less clear parts and pick those up. So like study chemistry for 30 minutes, read a book, then study english for 30 minutes, then read a book, then go back to chemistry and see what stuck and focus on what didn't.
Set aside time every night for fun and for work. You have to find a balance which will help you keep your focus while not spending too much time in leisure that you don't get what you need to get done, done.
That's the best I've got. Studying has honestly never been my strong suit, but this stuff is what others have taught me to try to improve my study habits. The problem is habits only get you so far, because in the end it's your ability to take a test that reigns supreme. You can know everything you should know and still choke on a test, lose your head enough that you can't focus and remember what you need to remember, think how you need to think.
You can know how to do calculus and still get algebra problems if you lose your head and forget to carry over or something. That's all about calm patience.
Go to bed early before the test. Study enough that it's not a problem, then wake up and have a good breakfast, something with protein. Give yourself some time to warm up mentally in the morning by going lightly over whatever you think you need to improve so that it's got one final application on your mind. Keep calm, take your test, do the best you can.
You've gotta just work on suppressing the worry. It won't help. Focus on something else, even escapism if you need to. The more time you spend worrying the more stress you put on yourself and the harder it will be to perform the day of the test. Lock it away, bury it deep down, let it out after you've turned in the test and walked out the door. That's when you can feel free to dissolve into a puddle of nervous worry.
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