Study Hacks

 The foundation of success, regardless of your chosen field, is attitude. If attitude is such a critical factor for success, shouldn't we all, analyze our attitude towards preparation and studies and ask how our attitude will affect our dreams and then goals. Let us understand the importance of attitude with help of a story: -- There was a man who used to sell balloon of every colour. Whenever his business was down he would release some helium filled balloon into air to attract children and when children saw them they would get attracted and buy them. One day, he felt as if someone was pulling his jacket. He turned and saw a little girl who asked, If you release a red baloon, would that also fly? Moved by girl's concern the man replied, It's not the colour of baloon, it is what is inside that makes it go up. The same thing applies to our lives. It is what is inside that counts. Remember the difference between a successful and an common man is not in terms of knowledge but m...

  I think most of the time we fail to progress in life due to absence of a strong belief system. I will here narate you a beautiful story which you should always remember when you think you can't make it or you are surrounded by negative people: -- Once, a group of frogs were traveling through woods and one of them fell in a deep pit. When other frogs crowded around and saw how deep it was, they told that there was no hope. However, the frog ignored all and tried to jump out of the pit. Despite his efforts, group of frogs above were still staying he should just give up but the frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him. At last, he jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out the other frogs were furious and said, Did you not hear us? The frog explained to them that he was deaf. Similarly in life, a lot of people will demoralize you by saying the subject are very tough or simply it's not your cup of tea. At such times, jus...

The entrance exams are not just about grueling work and burning midnight oil. One needs to prepare in a structured manner. Consistency in preparation is the key to success. It is better to study an average of two hours daily rather than burst in work followed by weeks of layoff. The trick is to be able to balance this along with the other activities like school studies etc. The exam is not just about working hard but working smart. Most competitive exams are objective type. So, work smartly and you can get an answer by eliminating the answers if you are not getting it with traditional methods. And also, always belief in yourself. I think half of the battle are won by this. This strong belief  followed by sustained motivation over a period of 8 to 10 months and coupled with a structured preparatory schedule and some smart ways applied to your studies is the key to success. So always be happy 😀  and I will keep motivating you and here are some points: -- 1. Well laid plan. 2. ...

  Before I elucidate my point of why not fear mistakes, let me give you an example of failure. Chances are you are reading this article in a room with the use of lightening. Well, you can thank Thomas Alva Edison for that. Edison failed over 9000 times before perfecting the light bulb! In my opinion, Thomas Edison' s picture should be under the definition* perseverance*. After Edison invented and produced the light bulb a reporter asked him how it felt to fail 9000 times. Edison replied I was glad I found 9000 ways not to invent light bulb!  Mistakes are the best teachers. Don't be afraid to try something new just because you don't think you will get it right the first time. Without mistakes you would not have any information about how to do better the next time. Each time you identify a mistake, you have learned something about your task. Remember there are four steps in making an Action plan: -- A. Take action and make mistakes. B. Review the results and identify mistakes...

Two things very important to clear an exam, Speed and Strike rate. A good speed or strike rate alone can not give you success. One without other is a good way to mess up all your performance. What is required is combination of both. Let me explain you this thing by an short story: -- I am sure you have heard the well known tale that brings out the point Slow and steady wins the race. Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare ran a race. It was agreed between them that the one who reaches a particular point first would win the race. Race thus began and the rabbit in a short time covered a long way. He looked back and saw that he had left his friend far behind. So he went into sleep thinking that when the tortoise would come up, he would take another run and beat him. But the tortoise went on slowly and steadily and won the race due to his continuous struggle while the hare was still asleep. Many years back someone came up with this story. Now moving to these years moral of this story is no...

 No definite part of the day can be said to be an ideal time for studying. Some may be mentally alert in the mornings, while others may prefer evenings or night. Research, however, shows that mental output is higher in the mornings than in the evening or at night. Your mind will be fresh after a good eight hour sleep. So the morning hours are the most valuable and best time for serious work. Do not fritter away your morning hours. Organize your work like ironing and laying out your clothes for the next day, the night before. Keep together your books, files and papers required for work, in order, the previous night. This way you start your day with a flying start and will not end up wasting your morning time. In addition to your regular scheduled sessions, it is good to make use of odd moments for other purposes. Every subject includes a certain amount of rote learning like formulas, vocabulary, laws etc. Write down these on small cards or on a small notepad. They can be learnt whil...

 One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. Instead of leaving the donkey to starve and die with pain, he decided to bury him alive. He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him. They all grabbed shovel and began to shovel dirt or mud into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and brayed terribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quited down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer feeling pity finally looked down the well and was astonished at what they saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and make a step up. As the farmer's neighbours continued to shovel dirt or mud on top of the animal, he would shake it off again and take another step up. Very so...

  Imagine you have a garden and there are weeds growing in it. There are two ways of getting rid of weeds one easy and one not easy. The easy way may be to run a lawn mower and the yard looks fine for a while, but that is temporary. Soon the weeds are back. But the not so easy task way may mean getting down on your hands and knees and pulling out the weeds by the roots. It is time consuming and painful, but the weeds will stay away for a longer time. The first solution appeared easy, but the problem remained. The second solution was not so easy, but took care of the problem from the roots. The key is to get to the root of the problem. The same thing is true for our life also. Similarly, common people wants instant answers. They are looking for quick solution to everything. As say, you are solving questions which you are not getting and then you will check answers and you will say, Yes I know this problem. But if you will be given that question again you will get stuck on it again b...

  Imagine you are going to appear for an exam after five days and you have four subjects of equal length to study. In order to revise your syllabus you can adopt any of the following methods: -- Method I: --  Studying and completing one subject a day and making a final revision on the fifth day of all the subjects. Method II: -- Every day studying a combination of subjects like two hours chemistry then physics for the next two hours. Let's now analyze and understand how the brain works to find which method is better. The Analysis: -- When we study a particular subject, say Physics a particular part of the brain is working more than the rest of the brain. When we shift to say chemistry, practically the other part of the brain would become active and the part studying physics will go for rest. So by changing the subject after periodic intervals, we give a chance to refresh a particular part of the brain and also prevent ourselves from feeling tired. If we study a particular subj...

 Research shows that we forget 82% of all that we learn within 24 hours! We will discuss below how you can prevent this loss by using the method of systematic revision. Systematic revision is an extremely powerful scientific method for transferring information from the short term memory to long term memory. The student who does not use systematic revision method is in fact wasting the time he has already spent on learning something. The Systematic revision method: -- Let's say one takes two hours to learn a particular topic by heart. When should one revise it? Scientifically speaking the first revision should be done after twenty four hours. On an average the brain is able to retain the newly learnt information up to 80-100% for only twenty four hours. Forgetting cycle becomes faster as soon as twenty four hours of the learning are over.  Once revised after twenty four hours, the brain is able to hold it for approximately seven days, then the forgotten cycle once again become...

 If you have a clear and compiling goal it will surely mobilize your focus towards actionable behaviour. Ask yourself " What do you need to do to achieve your goal?" Write it down! Because having clarity in mind and then breaking your study goals into small chunks will help you apply your energies where you need it the most. Now these are some guidelines which you must follow while setting your goals: -- • Make sure to write your goals. It is then better to concentrate. • Make sure to set up your priorities or you will mess up accomplishing nothing. •Your goals should be reasonable enough to be always  within your reach. • Also, you should be specific, the more specific you are the easier it is to measure your progress. Now, you are done with it. You have set up your goals but then how to achieve it... • Firstly, make sure that your study period don't exceed 3 hours and always use POMODORO technique. To know more about this technique check my other blog.https://ascenthack...

 Teachers and parents always advise us to study hard, but never told us how to. Very little time is devoted to teaching students to break down the course into manageable chunks. As a consequence, we face many problems. So here are some smart ways:-- Eliminate the black holes: -- Do not spend your hours with gaining nothing. Remove all the black hole. Like if you spend your 2 hours for playing video games. Minimize your time to one hour and spend the remaining one hour for effective studying. You will surely get advantage of this. Pomodoro Technique : -- Humans can not focus on a single task efficiently for too long. So the solution is to use this technique. Invented by Francisco Carrillio after getting inspired by a kitchen equipement. There are five basic steps to implement this technique:-- 1. Decide on the task. 2. Set your timer to 35 minutes. 3. Work on the task for 35 minutes with no distractions. 4. Take a break from 3 to 5 minutes. Then move to the next task for similar ti...

  Yes, this  is a very common question asked and I would like to answer this question with a short story:-- A young boy once asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates asked the boy to meet him tomorrow morning in front of the river. Next morning when Socrates met the boy he asked him to go inside the river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the boy by surprise and pushed his head into the water. The boy struggled to get out, but Socrates was strong and kept him there until the boy started turning blue. Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air. Socrates asked, '' What did you want the most when you were there? '' The boy replied, ''Air.'' Socrates said, That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it. '' There is no other secret. Learning: There are no shortcuts to success. Success is ...

  Hello Guys! This is Study Gear and I am here to make your study gear up. I think most of the time we don't fail because of lack of knowledge, but because we don't have good hacks for study. Therefore, I am here to guide you up. We all have very common or I would rather say dull techniques for studying. Do you will mind up if you daily spend some time reading anything which will help you to study life long effectively. I will here provide you best tricks like How to increase your memory power, How to use the phone as a productive alarm, How you can make a study plan that 100% work, How to study efficiently and many many more hacks that will surely Ascent your studies. So, stay tuned with me.......