Don’t panic: Planning for final-exam season
As final exam season approaches, many college students are battling dueling urges to procrastinate and panic. More so than their so-called traditional student counterparts, military students perhaps might have even more reason to dread exam season than their traditional student counterparts. Competing priorities of work and, often, family leave precious little time to hit the books.
Fortunately, with a little forethought and planning, studying for final exams need not dominate your life for the foreseeable future. Back in July, I wrote a story about starting off your new semester on the right foot by studying smart. Much of the advice in the article holds true for final exam week, as well.
In the article, I quoted perhaps my favorite study expert, Cal Newport, an MIT postdoc and author of the books “How to Become a Straight-A Student” and “How to Win at College.” Newport is also the man behind the popular Study Hacks blog. While he blogs about every aspect of college life, his philosophy for studying — in a nutshell, study smarter, not harder or longer — should ease minds troubled by the impending “doom” of multiple final exams. Also helpful are Newport’s entries on test-taking and time management.
Some other final exam study (and survival) sites worth mentioning:
* MIT
