{"id":3443,"date":"2018-03-30T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2018-03-31T06:51:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T06:51:23","slug":"rocking-exam-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2018\/03\/30\/rocking-exam-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocking your exam phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer term&#8217;s just around the corner, and what does that mean? That&#8217;s right! Endless episodes of exams. Over the years as a student at the RWTH Aachen, I have collected various tips on how to survive the intensive studying phases &#8211; all without jungle hair and mental suffering.<\/p>\n<h3>First, schedule your free time<\/h3>\n<p>Even if you plan to study 8 hours a day, I always take the time to plan my private things first in my weekly schedule. Fitness and relaxation times are a must, and there are even studies that recommend such a planning. In the critical phase time naturally gets a bit tight and sometimes your exercise suffers, but one should always strive for a balance.<\/p>\n<h3>Analyze the old exams<\/h3>\n<p>Always a good idea. Perhaps there are focal points and repetitive tasks. It is also a good idea to ask students from higher years if there are only a limited number of exams. Unfortunately, there is no online forum at Imperial College to exchange previous experiences. At the RWTH there is the so-called Maschboard, in which Mechanical Engineering students report and exchange experiences. Very helpful and highly recommended.<\/p>\n<h3>Build a study routine<\/h3>\n<p>Get up at the same time, go to bed at the same time, eat lunch at the same time. Even on weekends. Man is a creature of habit, and it also builds momentum that helps you get into the &#8216;flow&#8217; channel. This is where you have the feeling that it\u2019s working and that you\u2019re quite productive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"502\" class=\"wp-image-3444 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2018\/03\/flow-channel_line-1-g2pnqmqr-1024x502.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I always study through the weekends, but every 2 weeks I take a day off where I don&#8217;t do anything at all. Relax, take a trip somewhere or just chill out in the park all day as a reward for hard work.<br \/>\nGood luck and happy Easter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer term&#8217;s just around the corner, and what does that mean? That&#8217;s right! Endless episodes of exams. Over the years as a student at the RWTH Aachen, I have collected various tips on how to survive the intensive studying phases &#8211; all without jungle hair and mental suffering. First, schedule your free time Even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[270162,105158,270192,270191,270160],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-270162","tag-exams-2","tag-summerterm","tag-tipps","tag-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3447,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}