Effective Study Techniques and Breaks

You can study for a half hour. It doesn't take a half-hour break

to recharge your batteries. For most people, about five

minutes,

and this is where you go away, do something fun for five

minutes. Call a friend, talk to a child, talk to a parent, a roommate.

Enjoy some music. Do something you enjoy and actually say,

"This is my

treat for having studied for thirty minutes effectively." Go

back, and here's what happens.

Your efficiency is nearly a hundred percent.

Study a half hour, take a break. Study a half hour, study a half hour.

Now, had she done that

over a course of six hours, she would have got about five and a half

hours of serious studying and about a half hour of total break time