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Introduction:

If you are a college student, your life can be quite busy and demanding.

Every college student has to juggle multiple tasks every single day.

Especially when you don’t have any time left for your hobbies and relaxation.

Completing college lectures, college study and homework, travel time, and house chores, all these tasks are a common part of a college student’s routine.

But this does not have to last forever; you can change it. The answer is ‘Developing a productive mindset’

In this article, we will learn about some very effective and useful productivity tricks and tips that will completely change your academic life.

What is productivity?

Productivity is an individual’s or a team’s ability to efficiently utilise it’s time to achieve maximum output.

There are a lot of factors that affect productivity,

but the most important factors are your motivation level,  clarity, surrounding environment, and your Time management skills.

Why is productivity important?

Productivity is a crucial factor for career and academic success.

If you are not productive, it’s difficult to achieve good grades and achieve Consistent success and growth in your career and exams.

Being productive helps you to effectively manage your coursework; it can also help you to meet your projected deadlines on time.

What factors affect productivity

• mental health and emotional well-being

Mental health or emotional well-being is a critical factor for the academic success of any student.

Bad mental health can reduce concentration, motivation level, and your study efficiency.

Whereas having a good emotional well-being helps a student better handle exam pressure.

• Organised and distraction-free environment

  An environment  Full of distractions and disorganization is a perfect recipe for failure.

It not only reduces your efficiency but also reduces motivation and concentration levels. Therefore, it is very important to have an environment free of distractions for effective study.

• Time management

Proper planning, prioritizing, and scheduling tasks help a student to efficiently complete his or her syllabus. 

This improves performance and also avoids any last-minute pressure

whereas poor time management can often lead to an incomplete syllabus and a lot of pressure during the exam period. 

• Clarity

 Clarity is the secret sauce for academic success.

If you want to achieve good grades in your exams, it is very important to have clear goals written on a piece of paper. 

This helps to boost study motivation.,

making sure that you are on the right track and making progress, and are able to handle any challenges that might arise during preparation. 

Top 7 Productivity Tips:

1. Task list

To Boost Your productivity, the first step is to create a good task list.

For that, first, you need to write down all your academic Goals clearly.

Once you have written down your goals,

now it’s time to list all the actions you think are necessary. Small or a big task,

Just write everything down.

2. Prioritization

Once you’re done creating a task list, it’s time to prioritize your task list.

For this, you can use two techniques,

One is the 80/20 rule where you identify 20% of the most important tasks that will yield you 80% of the result.

This technique is to identify few tasks that will get you majority of the results.

Second technique ABCDE method,

where A stands for the most important tasks, B stands for important tasks, C stands for important task but with minimal consequences.

D means a task that can be delegated, and E means a task that can be eliminated from your list.

3. Minimize distractions

Distractions are the biggest enemy of productivity. 

Therefore, it is important to have a distraction free environment for your studies.

Tips for distraction free environment:

Number one, identify all the distractions that are disturbing you, and then categorize them into small and big distractions.

Once you categorize, now eliminate all small distractions as they’re easy to eliminate. Second plan for the big distractions.

If you have a distraction that can’t be removed easily from the environment, take expert help.

4. Group your tasks

Another effective productivity hack to boost study efficiency is to group your tasks. 

Divide your subjects that you will be learning into two groups: easy subject group and difficult subject group. 

Study easy subjects in the evening and the difficult ones first thing in the morning.

This is a great technique to not only complete your syllabus in time, but also utilise your energy more effectively

5. Exercise in the morning

Exercising first thing in the morning releases good hormones in your body that increase energy levels.

Exercise also improves your mood, your focus level, and your cognitive performance. 

The best for exercise are running,  playing outdoor sports, and push-ups. 

If you can’t make time for a lot of exercise don’t worry, you can also exercise for 5-10 mins in the beginning and then gradually scale it up.

6. Focus affirmations

Focus is an important factor in academic performance.

A good focus not only helps you to study for longer hours

but also write information much better.

To improve your focus levels, You can use affirmations like,

I have very good focus,

I study with focus, and

I have a focused mind. 

Just make sure you use the affirmation for at least 1 minute  on a consistent basis for at least 10 to 15 days to see good results.

7. Focus on the quality of work

Just studying for long hours or completing a lot of work does not get you high grades.

What gets you that is the quality of your study, which means how much of the lessons you have completed and how much have you understood.

I often call this the ‘concept understanding’.

This concept is the key to academic success.  Most exam papers test the analytical and problem solving ability of a student.

If you don’t have a good understanding of the concepts, then it will be hard for you to achieve a good grade

The Bottom Line:

Exams are an important part of a student’s life.

Exams determine your future, but that doesn’t mean that exams have to be daunting.

Exams can be fun and exciting TOO!

I hope these tips given in the article help you to achieve your desired grades and success in Life