The document provides tips for effective time management and creating an optimal study space. It recommends creating a study timetable that includes 50 minutes of study followed by 10 minute breaks. Distractions like TV, phone, video games and the internet should be limited or eliminated while studying. An ideal study space has good lighting, seating, supplies within reach, and limits distractions and movement away from the designated area. Prioritizing tasks and using to-do lists can also help manage time effectively.

1. ‘Managing my time’
Year 11 Study Skills Seminar 2

2. Creating a study timetable
• When do you study best?
• 50 minutes study, 10 minute break
• Not just homework!
• Let’s create one now!
• Share it!

3. Work flow charts
• Handout
• Do you need to be accountable to someone?
Research Plan Write
You
review
Someone
else
reviews
Submit!

4. Why is it important to have a good
study space?

5. • It makes it easier to focus on your work
• It keeps you comfortable in the inevitable long
study sessions
• You associate a space with study (so don’t
study on your bed!)
• You limit your movement away from study
space (and avoid distractions)
Why is it important to have a good
study space?

6. • Everything you need within reach
• Good seating posture: feet on the ground, spine
straight, chair lower than desk (not on the bed or floor)
• Food and drink (water bottle, snack)
• Stationery – pens, pencil, paper, highlighters,
calculator, rubbish bin
• Good lighting, not in the dark with one bright light – no
shadows (also, use natural light as much as possible –
to assist later sleep)
• A neat and organised work space with only one school
subject in view at a time
Make sure you have…

7. ELIMINATING OR LIMITING
DISTRACTIONS

8. Distractions: “Be in control!”
• Manage/Limit
• Eliminate

9. Distractions
Distraction Limiting / Managing Eliminating
TV • Study away from the TV
• Have everything on your desk
to avoid walking past the TV
• Hide remote
• Lock-up power cord
Phone • Flight mode while studying
• Only check phone at the end
of the session/day
• Turn off and give it
to your folks to look
after
Facebook /
YouTube /
Twitter /
etc.
• Give yourself 5 minutes of this
as a reward, only after 25
minutes of solid work
• Use a timer
• Get rid of notifications
Try getcoldturkey.com
(free for PC) or
“Isolator” for MAC:
http://willmore.eu/sof
tware/isolator

10. Distractions
Distraction Limiting / Managing Eliminating
Video
games
• Keep them for weekends
• Do not use as an ‘in-between’
break
• Give the controller
to your folks
• Lock-up power cord
Computer /
Internet
• Use a timer when researching
something so you don’t go on
a wiki-trail
• Write down the ideas you
need to research first
• Get your folks to
change the wifi
password
Visual
distractions
like posters
• Put posters/decorations out of
sight in your study area
• Take all posters
down and store
them away

11. Prioritising
• Wall planners
• To Do Lists
• A - Urgent
• B - Important
• C - Less important