Keep Each Study Period Short

• It's a good idea to spend no more than 1 hour on a study session
• Otherwise you may find that your attention wanders
• If you spread out your study session over the week you will learn more
• The first time you read new material you might miss important details
• Your brain needs time to absorb the material you have just studied
• Each time you look at new material it will become more familiar
• Things that you did not understand at first become clearer with exposure
• It's also a great way to break up a big task
• Last summer I needed to spread mulch over my yard
• It took 170 bags of mulch to cover the area
• I do not have the stamina that I had when I was your age
• I could not spread 170 in one, two or three sessions
• But I learned that I could spread 6 bags without to much trouble
• Every day when the weather permitted I spread 6 bags
• By the end of the summer the yard was covered