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The 5 Day Study Plan

So admittedly, I don’t fully know where the idea of the 5-day study plan came from. I first learned about it during a work training, and it instantly made sense to me as it strikes a good balance between studying too far in advance and doing last minute cramming. As I have touched on in previous blog posts, I find the idea of studying more than a week in advance to be impractical and a waste of time as most people will forget most of what they have studied/learned unless they have pre-determined and implemented a really good system of spaced repetition (click here for my blog post on spaced repetition). At the same time, cramming does not work because it leads to unnecessary stress, panic, lack of sleep, and can undermine your confidence going into the exam. Furthermore, many studies have shown that cramming does not allow for long-term understanding/memory, which may or may not be necessary depending on the subject and your future study/career plans.

I prefer study methods that prioritize spending time on what you don’t know, or which designates different amounts of time to different subjects based on your knowledge level and familiarity with the subject. However, in the event that studying that way does not work for you, or if you are truly unsure of what you do and do not know, I recommend the 5-day study plan as detailed below.

Step 1: Break the material into four (relatively) equal chunks. This can be done in any way that makes sense to you. By chapter is probably easiest, but there are other ways that might also work, such as by lecture topic. It may be useful to look at the syllabus, or at your study guide when deciding on your four chunks.  

Step 2: Plan to spend a minimum of 2.5 hours per day studying for this test, if its hard you might need more time, such as 3 or 4 hours, but make sure you prioritize the minimum of 2.5 hours per day for the five days prior to the test.

Step 3: Each day consists of two important steps: Prepare and Review. You should establish 2-3 prepare and review strategies that work best for you, and stick to these 2-3. Here’s a list of ideas to get you started, with my personal favorites in bold.

Step 4: Now you combine steps 1 and 3 to create your study schedule.

Here is an example:

*In order to maximize your 5-day study schedule I would recommend composing the parts/groupings in such a way so that the hardest material falls into part A, and the easiest into Part D.  Technically all of the 5-day study schedule explanations I have read just randomly separate the topics into the parts, but smarter strategies would be separating them by difficulty level, or by how long ago you initially learned that material.

Big Sis?

I'm something between Moriarty and Watson 😂😂😂😂 and I'm proud of it.

Same

Listen I was fine with thinking the same thing about Mashima and Nalu in terms of shounen ships; he just makes them extremely close bc shounen friendships are always strangely the most passionate relationships in the entire genre, all the stuff with Lucy being naked around Natsu is just typical shounen fan service. Yep. Nakama. Titties. Same stuff. Don't read into it. These shounen authors don't think about romance unless its extremely apparent that they have a love interest for their MC.

But when this mf released the Edolas chapter

Edolas Nalu are MARRIED. WITH A KID.

Oh HELL NAAAAHHHHH

I am FULLY convinced this dude knows exactly what he's doing and fucking with all of us Nalu truthers

+the Nalu art he draws himself on twitter

The edging this man is doing with Nalu is one for the history books, a generational con atp

Bro is a villain

“At Sinegard they had been about the same height… But then, at Sinegard they had just been children,”

It’s the only way. If I don’t do it, they will. 

- Naomi Alderman, The Power

i will NEVER stop talking about “you’re hurting me”. there couldn’t have been better or more devastating last words for kitay. for so long he endured the pain every time rin called the fire. he never said anything. rin saw how much he was hurting, constantly asked him if he wants her to stop, but he always said no, always said he was fine because he never wanted to deny her anything. because he knew how important the fire was to her. the only time he denies her is at the very end, when rin loses her mind. and even then, at her worst, as she tries to overpower kitay, the SECOND he says “you’re hurting me” she stops. and not only does she stop, but it stops her descent into madness and she has one final moment of clarity. because “rin couldn’t hurt kitay and not worry about it. if she could, she’d be lost.”

Happy one year @taylorswift for giving us this masterpiece! Coming a full circle Red (tv) cause we remembered it all too well!

Can't wait to listen to swfities screaming this in the eras tour!

It's NaLu gift exchange ✨🔥

Thanks to @allaboutnalu for hosting the event! This gift is for a long-time mutual of mine (I somehow got them by chance) @hollie-artz! Hope you like it! Thanks for being my mutual ever since I was sorta awful at art, you were a true trooper 😔