5 study tips for post-secondary students

Being a post-secondary student can be difficult with school work, extracurricular activities and a social life to balance. If you're a student looking to be more productive, check out the tips below.

• Social media is one of the biggest time wasters for young people today. Make rules for yourself about when you can check social media and don't check the sites except during those times.
• If you have trouble stopping yourself from checking social media sites, you can download website blocker to help block those sites during certain times or from certain computers.

• If you're working on group projects or participate in extracurricular activities with other people, delegate as many activities as possible. You may like to have control over every aspect of a project, but delegating to people can help get tasks done more efficiently.
• During group projects, allow each member of the group to do a sufficient amount of work, or team up in extracurriculars to make sure everyone has an equal work load.

• When you have an exam coming up, make a study schedule over the week or two before the test rather than cramming over one or two nights.
• Spending about a half hour each night studying each day will help you do better on the test and avoid having to spend time before each test trying to memorize a huge amount of information all at once.

• Even if you have a big work load, it's important to take breaks to ensure you're being as productive as possible. Make yourself get up and walk around every two hours or schedule time with friends during study sessions.
• You'll be more productive after taking a break than you would be if you tried to sit and work for long periods of time.

• Because college and university students have so much to do, it's essential for them to create prioritized to-do lists. You should make a list with the most urgent projects at the top, followed by longer-term projects.
• Stick to to-do lists to ensure that you get everything done, and try get the most important things done first each day.