The strategies which I would strongly recommend for students to help manage
their time is to have a visual plan of what upcoming assessments and
exams that you have, because that's the most important thing.
But also know that it's really good if you visualize time that you've allocated for
yourself for a social event or just time to do something you enjoy.
Spending time on a hobby, that's really important because you're able to say that
although you may have many stressful events coming up you've also
allocated time for yourself to distress from that so
visually being able to say that is really important.
Also for time management tips I definitely think that a diary is really important as
well and that can be electronic form so something that you visually see on a daily
so especially, we are all connected to iPhones.
So having that there and knowing that you do have something to do is a point to
enable you to remember that and to achieve it.
And also in terms if you write it down, as I said at the beginning, visually,
you can tick that off.
And being able to actually tick something off and know that you've achieved it,
I think it's really motivating to continue to plan.
>> Time management is really important if you're going to be successful and
happy while you're at uni.
And it's something that I've found you've really learn through making mistakes and
trial and error.
So it might take a lot of time to finally get there, but
if you start trying to put in place good practices when you start uni or
that you might already know, you'll get there a lot sooner.
So I know that I've found that I only
started to put these ideas into practice after making a lot of mistakes myself,
like starting essays too late and being really rushed.
And just saying that you know, next time I need to start earlier so
that I don't have that panic and I can produce a much better piece of work.
And I find the most useful thing to kind of get into that pattern is to just start
off the semester having some kind of schedule or
routine that you can stick to every week.
So that that way you know you have to do work at certain times.
You can fit in all your classes at uni and maybe a job or
any other commitments you have.
As well as enough time for your ledger and to study and that way you know you have
certain times you have to be doing your work and you can get things done.
And then if things take too long you've always got
back up time that you can fill it in.
So I find what works for me is that I try to every semester on
a Saturday I'll go into the library at uni and I'll spend the whole day and
I'll try to do all my readings for my classes for the next week.
So that way, once the week starts and
I get caught up with actually doing the classes and whatever else might happen,
I know that I'm prepared with everything I need for that week and
I have enough time that within all that stressfulness of actually going out and
doing things I have a bit of time to relax, or
if something else comes up, I'm able to adjust and fit it in.
>> Time management is a buzz word that we hear often at high school,
at university, and even in the professional workplace.
It's something that we're constantly renegotiating, and
all of us are managing our time in different and effective ways.
And we are constantly learning from our experiences.
So I was very bad at managing my time in my first year at university.
I used to spend a lot of my time just studying.
I wasn't working at the time and I wasn't making time for socializing or even
doing anything active and I would say that was really inefficient use of my time.
And as I went through university,
picking up extracurricular activities, I found out that the best way to manage
time was to keep a balance in your schedule and to then prioritize tasks.
So I have a strategy with my diary where at the beginning of every semester
I sit down with my unit of study outlines and then diarize my assessments and
examinations, and then set myself a reminder three to four weeks in advance,
either on my phone or in my diary.
And this means that I can know when an assessment or
an exam is coming up and then prepare for it.
Another thing that I've kind of eluded to is prioritizing tasks.
So sometimes they'll be high priority tasks,
things that are weighted quite heavily for instance at university.
I will obviously put in more effort into those tasks and
this mean that my weekly readings might take a back seat.
I'll still get them done but I will obviously prioritize important tasks,
likewise with other non academic things that may be happening.
It means I know when I'll be busy, when I'm not and
then can manage my time accordingly in apportion,
appropriate time for whatever it may be.
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