Deploy Your Energies on Important, Immediate Assignments and Earn Better Grades
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by: DrMarcR.Dussault
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Do you find it easier to complete your tasks when you are stressed for time and having to push to complete work before the deadline ,than when you have no deadline?
Here are a few exact situations:
Not important and not urgent. 10% of your total mark for the course is a book report, but it isn't due for another three months, and you expect to spend only 10-20 hours reading the book and 4-5 hours getting the report written.
Get to work as early as you can so you don't end up rushing later on.
However, how often does this important task turn into and "Important and urgent" task, which is exactly what you don't want What you need to do is pretend in your own mind that you only have a quarter of the time to get it completed, then you'll complete it much faster and be able to spend the rest of the time "polishing" the finished product into something really great.
Not important but urgent. You have a quiz tomorrow but you haven't reviewed anything. It's worth 5% but you need every mark you can get.
You should have made time for this between everything else you were doing. You could have easily avoided all of the stress and anxiety that you have now subjected yourself to.
Whenever you notice that you are in a similar situation, you should focus on your weak points and spend 80 percent of your time fine tuning those points. Spend the rest of your time working on your strong areas.
Important but not urgent. You have a project that is worth 35% of your final mark. It's due in a month and you estimate it will take you 20-25 hours to complete.
Besides organizing your tasks into realistic groups, you should give each one a time limit and set yourself a target date for completion. Your workload will then be more structured and well-thought-out so that the tasks should be less stressful. Then you can unwind before you again have to get to the focal point of each task.
Important and urgent. An important you had the final exam in two days, it is worth on 70% of final grade. You hadn't put in enough time - so much new material to cover you don't know where to start an exam.
You want to be sure you are spending appropriate amount of time on urgent and important issues that may take more time to resove than some of lifes more mundane problems.
The best way to handle these is firstly to take a step back from the situation, and look upon it from a "slower" more patient perspective Nothing is so urgent that you need to dive straight in without thinking, you need to do your due diligence in every situation, and that might only be 5 minutes of planning but at least you took a bit of time out and planned before you went ahead.
When you get the balance of urgency, study and researching for projects right and align them with a prioritized time table, in particular the urgent assignments and tests, you'll have a success formula that will see you through not only your education, you'll have a valuable skill that will enable you to complete any project in your working life as well.
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About the author: Dr Marc R. Dussault can show you how to easily improve your school grades using simple, effective speed learning techniques that anyone can master! Visit the "Get Better Grades" web site for more great tips on how to study.
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