Me and my boyfriend have made this guide https://imgur.com/gallery/LbPwGIE our phone wallpapers. He is studying to become a doctor and I’m studying foreign languages for fun! We ask ourselves these questions every night to reflect on our progress! 😁
♦️ Though the questions may seem simple, I’ve actually put a lot of thought into them. If you’d like to read how, please continue!
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1: What did you study today? Any big concepts? Small facts?
🔹 This is just a simple opener question into reviewing your progress for the day. You can first look at it as a whole, like a big picture. What were the large concepts and ideas you learned about today? Did you learn any smaller important facts about a concept? Write it down now in order to look over next time. Chances are you won’t remember this tiny point and you’ll thank yourself later.
2: Did you study more or less than what you had planned?
🔹 This is to help you estimate how much general progress you think you’ve made. If you did not study to your goal, that’s okay! Maybe the goal was already too big. Or maybe you had too many distractions. Or maybe you didn’t study to your goal amount but still feel like you learned a lot! All of these things matter.
3: Did you take any breaks during your study session? For how long?
🔹 This is to help you gauge how much you are NOT studying and how often you are resting. Rest is so important. Studies have shown that taking breaks in between studying actually helped for more efficient learning as compared to straight cram studying for hours straight.
Drink some water, have a snack. Watch some tv. Work out. Text and chat with your friends, whatever you like to do the most!
4: If yes, what did you do during those breaks? Were they necessary or procrastination?
🔹 When you took your breaks, were they to help your studying or to actually delay it? Were you scrolling through your phone after a good session, or were you using your phone when you should have been studying?
Did you go eat some food because you were hungry from hard work, or because you were bored and started wandering to your fridge? Remember, breaks are to help your learning, not to impede it!
5: Did you have any distractions today? If so, what were they? Could you have avoided any of these distractions?
🔹 Reflect on what stopped you from progressing in your studies today. Was it things you couldn’t change? Did you have to babysit your little sister? Take something to the post office or go grocery shopping? Work? School?
You cannot avoid these things and you should never blame yourself for things you cannot control. You will progress in the time that is permitted to you!
Did you lay in your bed and watch a new show that you’ve been waiting for instead of studying? If yes, then dedicate your break time to this show or thing!
Don’t stop doing what you like, just allocate this time to when you’re not studying. Tell yourself you will watch that new show LATER when you take a break.
Because knowing that you have a designated time for those sorts of things helps you to not have it in the back of your mind and leave studying to go do it. As long as you’ve told yourself there is a time coming to do it, you will surely be able to stay focused.
6: Did you study what you had planned originally? Or did you switch goals?
🔹 Sometimes we end up studying something else than what we thought we would that day. And that’s okay, you can just move that subject for tomorrow. Especially if it is equally important.
I didn’t study French verbs today but I will study them tomorrow because I did adjectives instead!
Just make sure you note that you diverted from the original plan, because sometimes when we study something different than what we wanted, we end up forgetting and not studying that thing at all later!
7: Did you briefly review the difficult concepts that you had learned last study session?
🔹 Reviewing what you learned is just as important as inputting new information. There is no point to studying if you cannot retain what you’ve learned from last time.
I suggest before you start your new concepts for the day, take some time to study those super hard concepts from yesterday. Look up that weird word you vaguely remember. Go through your notes and catch how many things you didn’t remember until just now.
I am very guilty of learning difficult concepts and then moving on immediately and never reviewing them again. Even though I “learned” it and want to move on, I didn’t actually study efficiently because I didn’t remember it later...
8: Reflect, was today a good day of healthy studying? If yes, great!
🔹 The question isn’t “did you study a whole bunch?”, it is “did you HEALTHILY study?”!
Did you take those breaks listed from earlier? Do you feel tired not from burnout and exhaustion but because you worked your brain to learn as efficiently as it could for the day? Did you get time in to talk to your friends or do something you love?
If yes, continue repeating this system! Your health should not be less important than your work and studies.
9: If not, reflect on what to avoid and change for next study session. There is ALWAYS a next time.
🔹 Do not beat yourself up about mistakes or distractions, nobody is perfect and nobody is a machine. If you give up, you’ll never know what could have been if you tried long enough.
Learning is like climbing a never ending mountain, you may not find the finish line but you also don’t realize how far you’ve come up until you look down.
10: Tell yourself “Good job!” or that you will do a better job tomorrow!
🔹 Finish your reflection with some encouraging words.
Whether or not the day went good, whether or not it was your fault, you must stay determined because the only person that can promise you success is yourself.
I shared this guide in hopes that a student who felt lost like me could find their way again!
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