Christian Perales- 1-12-16

Christian Perales

January 12, 2016

The Week before Midterms

            With the midterms being only one week away, people will tend to get nervous and overthink many aspects of it. In doing this, it has over complicated something fairly simple. If time is set aside each day in preparation for midterms, the stress and cramming of information does not have to happen the night before each test. The time set aside, which doesn’t even have to be long, will help prepare you for what is to come.

            For each day before the midterms, studying one or two subjects would be best, because that way there is not too much different information coming in all at once. Two subjects a day will easily allow your brain to soak in the information without feeling overwhelmed. If while studying you begin to get overwhelmed with information, take a break, because the information you attempt to learn after that point will only bring about more pointless stress and confusion. A 15 minute break is enough to cool off, but not too long to the point where you are too distracted to study.

            The study tip I would use would be to study the two subjects that are together each day of midterms. For example, if Latin and Chemistry are on a Wednesday, study Latin and Chemistry the same day. Since Midterms, much like Exams, count for 20% of your grade, it would be wise to do your best and not to slack off!