The document provides 10 specific time management strategies for students. These include creating blocks of study time with regular breaks, dedicating distraction-free study spaces, weekly reviews of assignments and schedules, prioritizing the most difficult tasks, starting projects to identify issues, postponing unnecessary activities until work is done, identifying outside resources for help, using free time wisely in small increments, reviewing notes before and after class, and reviewing lecture notes within 24 hours. The document also references additional resources on time management and procrastination.

1. Time Management
Time Management

2. Developing time
management
skills…
Your
Journey.

3. Strategies
for
using
time.

4. Procrastination.
Or,
maybe
I’ll try
that
later.

5. Inside the Mind of a Master
Procrastinator.

6. Now try this exercise in time
management:
How do you spend your time each day?

7. Specific Strategies to Manage Time
Effectively:
These applications of time management have
proven to be effective as good study habits.
1. Create blocks of study time and regular
breaks

8. 2. Dedicated study spaces
Find a place free from distraction
(no mobile phone or text messaging!)
where you can maximise your concentration
and be free of the distractions that friends or hobbies can bring!

9. 3. Weekly Reviews
Each week, like a Sunday night, review your
assignments, your notes, your calendar. Be
mindful that as deadlines and exams approach,
your weekly routine must adapt to them!

10. 4. Prioritise Your
Assignments
Get in the habit of beginning with the most
difficult subject or task. You'll be fresh, and
have more energy to take them on when you
are at your best.

11. 5. Achieve ‘Stage One’
‘The longest journey starts with a single step’.
First, you launch the project! Second, by
starting, you may realize that there are some
things you have not planned for in your
process.
- Get Something Done!

12. 6. Postpone Unnecessary
Activities
Until the Work is Done.
Postpone tasks or routines that can be put off
until your school work is finished! Distracting
activities will be more enjoyable later without
the pressure of the test, assignment, etc.
hanging over your head.

13. 7. Identify Resources to Help
You.
Are there tutors? An expert friend?
Are there specialists in the library that can
point you to resources? Using outside
resources can save you time and energy, and
solve problems.

14. 8. Use Your Free Time Wisely.
Think of times when you can study “bits" ; when
walking, riding the bus, waiting in line, cleaning
your room. Put your time to good use.

15. 9. Review Notes and
Readings Just Before Class.
This may prompt a question or two about
something you don't quite understand, to ask
about in class, or after. Be prepared.

16. 10. Review Lecture Notes Just
After Class.
Aim to review lecture material immediately
after class.
The first 24 hours are critical.
Forgetting is greatest within 24 hours without
review!

17. Bibliography and Resources
Studygs.net. (2016). Time management. [online]
Available at: http://www.studygs.net/timman.htm
[Accessed 9 Nov. 2016].
Urban, T. (2016). Inside the mind of a master procrastinator. [video]
Available at:
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_
procrastinator [Accessed 9 Nov. 2016].