essay on last minutes study hacks
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The board exams are knocking on the door and these final weeks are a time of revision, anxiety and sleepless nights. Yet, sleep is essential to retain what you study. Here is a list of research-based study tips for last minute revision.
It's been scientifically proven that taking a 20-minute walk before an exam can boost your cognitive performance by up to 10 per cent. The latest study by Chuck Hillman of the University of Illinois, Cognition Following Acute Aerobic Exercise, found that moderate exercise - 30 minutes for adults and 20 minutes for children - results in a 5 per cent to 10 per cent improvement in cognition, the activity that takes place in the brain's frontal lobe. Using treadmills, brain monitors and other equipment, Hillman measured cognition before and after exercise.
Dr Alokananda Dutt, a neuropsychiatrist at AMRI Hospitals in Calcutta, reasons that regular exercise -cycling, walking or jogging - facilitates more bloodflow in the hippocampus region of the brain, responsible for encoding and storage of information that can be retrieved when required. "Moreover, aerobic exercise causes an adrenaline rush resulting in a sensation of pleasure; you are in a good mood and it's easier to concentrate, comprehend and remember."
Revise before bedtime
Have a topic that you are struggling to understand? Review the toughest material right before going to bed the night before the test. That makes it easier to recall the stuff later. Unfortunately, a majority of college students stay up all night studying, a practice actually linked to lower grades.
A collaborative study published by researchers from Notre Dame and Harvard found that research subjects tended to remember unrelated word pairs better if they had learned them shortly before a good night's sleep, rather than in the morning before 12 hours of being awake. This serves as more evidence that it's best not to pull an all-nighter. Get 7-8 hours of sleep and set a study session before bed.
"The brain is most active when you sleep. It reorganises all the information it has gathered throughout the day; stores or consolidates memory. Whatever you study just before you go to bed gets the top priority. If you study for long stretches without a wink of sleep, the information doesn't get encoded; an exhausted mind cannot recall fast," says Dutta. Also, don't wake up earlier than usual to study; this could interfere with the rapid-eye-movement sleep that aids memory