Comments on: How To Ace Your Next Exam http://www.get-better-grades.com/blog/how-to-ace-your-next-exam/ Get The Best Grades With the Least Amount of Effort Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:12:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: focus factor http://www.get-better-grades.com/blog/how-to-ace-your-next-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-690 focus factor Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:39:54 +0000 http://www.get-better-grades.com/blog/?p=649#comment-690 You have to admit it, you can't really get good grades if you are not focused, or have problems with your memory. This is the reason why people cram, because they seem to retain more when they study under stress. Unfortunately, it doesn't really work all the time and there are cases when you run out of time to study. You have to admit it, you can’t really get good grades if you are not focused, or have problems with your memory. This is the reason why people cram, because they seem to retain more when they study under stress. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work all the time and there are cases when you run out of time to study.

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]]> By: Ann http://www.get-better-grades.com/blog/how-to-ace-your-next-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-667 Ann Sat, 08 May 2010 11:48:24 +0000 http://www.get-better-grades.com/blog/?p=649#comment-667 First Year University Student: Dear Marc Dussault: I recently purchased your book. It has now been a week and while I agree with a lot of the suggestions in your book, I have yet to start implementing them yet. I was a procrastinator in high school. Somehow though I managed to succeed enough to well and still get into the Engineering degree of my choice. However the same methods don’t work anymore in university. University is so different from high school! Yet for almost the past 5-6 years this is all I have done in order to complete my studies. I understand everything your book says and I appreciate the e-mail tips; I do the exercises and I try to eat well as well as sleep, but still... I just can’t seem to start. What’s wrong with me? I’ve researched on the net, and apparently there are not only procrastinators but also chronic procrastinators as well. I think I may be one for sure, for I’ve been procrastinating so long I don’t really know what the meaning of “study” is anymore... I make lists and lists of what I want to achieve. Each time changing and changing the detail or format, and hoping that I will implement it (I tried to start with this technique from your book first). But somehow I just become tired by the large amount of uni work covered in the day or even if I’m not tired I just would rather have fun things to do. I really want to succeed and do well... that should be enough motivation... but I still can’t keep it up. I did the 8-minute technique and it seemed to work well, that I actually kept going. But the next day, I looked at the same piece of math homework and I could not bring myself to continue doing it. I literally was having a mental argument inside my head for the pros and cons of not doing the homework, that I physically felt like I was actually getting stressed. Where do I start? And why can’t I stay motivated? In saying all of this, I have a mathematics exam this Friday... Sincerely requiring help.............! Ann First Year University Student:
Dear Marc Dussault:
I recently purchased your book. It has now been a week and while I agree with a lot of the suggestions in your book, I have yet to start implementing them yet.

I was a procrastinator in high school. Somehow though I managed to succeed enough to well and still get into the Engineering degree of my choice.
However the same methods don’t work anymore in university. University is so different from high school!

Yet for almost the past 5-6 years this is all I have done in order to complete my studies. I understand everything your book says and I appreciate the e-mail tips; I do the exercises and I try to eat well as well as sleep, but still… I just can’t seem to start.

What’s wrong with me? I’ve researched on the net, and apparently there are not only procrastinators but also chronic procrastinators as well. I think I may be one for sure, for I’ve been procrastinating so long I don’t really know what the meaning of “study” is anymore…

I make lists and lists of what I want to achieve. Each time changing and changing the detail or format, and hoping that I will implement it (I tried to start with this technique from your book first). But somehow I just become tired by the large amount of uni work covered in the day or even if I’m not tired I just would rather have fun things to do.

I really want to succeed and do well… that should be enough motivation… but I still can’t keep it up. I did the 8-minute technique and it seemed to work well, that I actually kept going. But the next day, I looked at the same piece of math homework and I could not bring myself to continue doing it. I literally was having a mental argument inside my head for the pros and cons of not doing the homework, that I physically felt like I was actually getting stressed.

Where do I start? And why can’t I stay motivated?

In saying all of this, I have a mathematics exam this Friday…

Sincerely requiring help………….!

Ann

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