Five steps to help manage your weekly schedule.

1. Identify committed time - Record things you must do and/or will do (class, work, church, family activities, exercise, commuting, etc.) and record their appropriate times.
2. Identify personal time - Record the time you need for sleeping, eating, grooming, doing household chores, etc.
3. Estimate study time - Plan to spend two hours studying outside of the classroom for every one hour of class each week.
4. Establish a study plan –
   • Determine when your high and low periods of concentration occur
   • Schedule study times according to class periods and course formats.
     • *For a class in which you discuss and recite, plan to study just before class.   
     • *For a lecture course, plan to study soon after the class ends.
   • Study in time blocks.
   • Study difficult subjects first.
   • Practice distributed learning. Learning occurs more effectively if it is spaced over several study sessions.
   • Use daylight hours productively.
5. If needed revise your plan -Eventually you will discover what kind of plan will work best as you live with your plan and edit it. Remember to make sure your plan is sensible and well-balanced to ensure success.