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Exam season is rapidly approaching, and you might be feeling the pressure to study and make sure you get through the exams. Then your procrastination creeps in, you find yourself wasting hours on social media, reading bizarre wiki articles, and putting studying off as exam week creeps ever closer.
To help you annihilate the urge to procrastinate we've posted a list of tips that will help you focus and work hard.
1. Start small
When you're confronted with a big task it can be a paralysing. To get started select a small task that you can easily finish and get stuck in. The momentum you get from conquering it will give you the momentum you need to get stuck into the rest!
2. Break your task into chunks
Sometimes your backlog of work can feel a bit monolithic, when you feel yourself buckling under the weight of your studies try to divide and conquer. Break your work down into manageable sub-tasks that you can work through one at a time.
3. Have a power hour
A power hour is where you sit down and force yourself to work hard for exactly one hour. The finiteness of the timescale involved means that it's easier for you to maintain your concentration for the duration of your hour o' power!
4. Have a study supervisor
It can be hard for some people to self-motivate, if you're like this then it's time to call in back up. Ask someone to be your study supervisor, they'll gently remind you to focus when you're slacking off by giving you a meaningful look, quiet word, or throwing a shoe at your head.
5. Have your ma stand over you with a wooden
Oh shite! Yer ma says she'll bate your hole raw unless you get your head stuck into those books.
6. Take a whole bunch of benzedrine
Jack Kerouac wrote the entirety of On The Road in 3 weeks thanks to the magic of benzedrine! Also known as bennies, this wonderful cocktails of amphetamines will give you the wild-eyed, frantic focus you need to power through your exams and accidentally gnaw out your tongue.
Just be wary of the amphetamine psychosis and irreversible damage you'll be doing to your body.
7. Ritual mortification of the flesh
You can't concentrate because you are impure. Sloth is a sin. Thrash the slovenly urges out with a cat o' nines. Whip yourself productive, whip yourself clean. Then sit down again with your physics books.
8. Turn off your WiFi
The internet is a world of distractions, though it may be hard, it's probably better to log off for an hour or two!
