If you are a person who is endeavoring to get better grades, there are a number of methods that will help you to boost your capability to sharpen your attentiveness, memorize the data that you study, and recall it during an examination without being subjected to mental blocks or a test phobia. Here are the best ways that I know to establish good learning behaviors:
(1) Set up a place for reading and only study in that place! Locate a silent place that will be conducive to a focusing of attention without any distractions. Some typical examples would be a library, a vacant classroom, or your home office. You want to create the routine of studying when you are in this place. So it is best to not use your special place for other activities like daydreaming, socializing, or eating, etc.
BE SURE YOUR SPECIAL PLACE HAS:
(a) A comfortable seat, but not excessively comfortable
(b) A desk
(c) First class light
(d) Air flow
BE SURE YOUR SPECIAL PLACE DOESN'T HAVE:
(a) Distractions
(b) A phone
(c) Music that will distract you
(d) A large screen television
(e) A companion who talks too much
(f) A refrigerator filled with distractions
(2) Divide your work into tiny, short-range goals.
(a) Set up small highly specific projects like, "I'm going to study my biology from 2 PM to 3 PM. Or else you will set yourself up to fail.
(b) Set a reachable homework goal for the quantity of time you have allocated. For example: finish reading chapter thirty in my chemistry text book, or complete a rough draft of my English paper, etc. Set your goals at the time that you are ready to sit down and study, just before you begin. Set doable goals. You might do more than reach your goal, but set a reachable goal even if it seems far too easy.
(3) Test Phobias
(a) Some people experience physical symptoms for the most part, like faintness, nausea, or feeling hot or cold, etc.
(b) Other people experience emotional symptoms for the most part, like feeling frustrated, irritable, or crying easily.
(c) The main dilemma with anxiousness is that it can make you have a memory block. Or it could make you have thoughts that are racing out of control.
(d) Although you may feel some level of anxiousness when taking tests, you can learn to greatly diminish that anxiety, or even completely eliminate it!
(e) Anxiety and the resultant stress are by and large the main causes of a lack of the ability to focus concentration. Stress can also trigger a mental block when one tries to recall information.
(f) Hypnosis CD's can be utilized to relax your mind and focus your concentration. As your mind calms down, your ability to stay focused will increase. Similarly, a calm mind enhances your ability to retain information, and recall it when it is needed.
(g) Hypnotherapy CD's can be utilized to program your mind for the positive expectation of tranquility and the ability to recollect information during an examination. This is effective at diminishing or eliminating test anxiety.
(h) There are a number of NLP methods that can rapidly do away with a test phobia!
Alan B. Densky, CH has specialized in the practice of hypnosis and NLP since 1978. He offers hypnosis CD's for improving memory and recall. Visit his Neuro-VISION NLP site for free hypnosis newsletters, articles, and MP3s and his Self Hypnosis Video Blog for free video taped NLP tips.