Hacks to become a Topper!
- Jan 7, 2017
- 2 min read
With the exam season around the corner, all of us are looking for some shortcut to success. Although conventional wisdom would say that none exist, we say seven exist!
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Developed by digital product designer Ryder Carrol, this is a fresh way of planning your day. The unique thing about the Bullet Journal or BuJo for short is that, unlike other planners, it's completely customisable to your demands. Include a habit tracker or a brain dump section or draw your idea of what the newest phone should look like! Start your BuJo now!
The most accepted time management technique today, this follows the principle of concentrating in short bursts of energy and then taking a brief rest. For everyone who has trouble in paying attention for long periods of time, this is a life saver!
These tiny sticky notes serves much greater purposes than you will ever fathom! They hold the potential to get you on top of the grade roster, only if put to good use. Use them as chapter bookmarks, revision tool, flashcards, or just to highlight important headings on a page and you’re sure to have a productive study session with rainbow coloured pages!
4. Study Incentives
Incentives are perhaps the oldest and the most useful motivators mankind has used. And Indian parents have pioneered this technique for centuries to come. Taking a leaf out of their book, start setting incentives for your study milestones. Finish a difficult chapter? Order a pizza. This exam season, why wait for rewards?
5. Kokuyo CamiApp Notebook
This notebook with an app is the simplest cure for organisational OCD. Get all your text data as digital data on your smartphone in one click! Access your notes everywhere you go without the fear of another notebook being mutilated. Just write and forget. It’s that simple!
A five step note taking method, pioneered by professors of Cornell University, this is perhaps the most tedious hack on this list, but easily the most rewarding. This semester, let's not depend on the xerox guy.
Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, claimed that this technique could help understand any concept in the world. When a Nobel Laureate makes a claim, it makes sense to give it a shot!
"There is a shortcut to success!"
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