• congrats ! past papers are your new best friend. don’t forget the mark schemes.
• repetition repetition repetition
• start big and condense down. notes to mind maps to flashcards.
• don’t spend a full day studying. please. you will hurt your brain.
• teach someone! if there’s nobody to listen to you teach, teach your teddy bears god dammit
• plan what you’re gonna do with your time. even just roughly. 
• organise your shit, bruh. you don’t need fancy planners and wall posters, just know what you need to study and know what homework is due
• flash cards are great but only if you keep reviewing them
• mind maps are great for linking concepts !!!
• make sure you’re looking after yourself bc you’ll never work well otherwise
• on that note, here’s a bunch of foods that boost your brain power
• extra reading !! books and articles and videos on your subject can massively help you in exams okay
• practise recall, not recognition
• just put your phone away. or turn it off. whatever works.
• colour coding is great, so long as you don’t go overboard
• don’t ! listen ! to! music ! with ! lyrics !!!!!!!!

• Calendars 5 - Calendars 5 is complete re-imagining of what the best mobile calendar experience should be. Calendars 5 is smart, excels in both tasks and events and runs on any iOS device you might have. It’s the calendar app you have been looking for.
• Taskade - A great organized app that helps you organize your tasks or write simple notes.
• Minimalist - a minimalist themed app that lets you list tasks very simple with other functions such as music and scenery to help you focus on those tasks.

• Clock - This is the default app that comes along with your ios device. I would say the functionality in it is very helpful to maintain alarms and a steady sleep schedule with the sleep function!
• Tide - The tide app is an amazing peaceful app that lets you choose a time setting for how long you will work with soothing sounds playing in the background. The sounds really do help me focus and I highly recommend this app.
• Flat Tomato - This app helps you split your time and measures it. For example, you would work for 25 minutes and then you would have a 5 minute break. This app really helps me with splitting my time and my tasks accordingly.
• Forest - The forest app is absolutely great if you need help with staying away and off from your phone. The app grows a tree for up to two hours of constant studying which you would grow your tree in the meantime. If you do go on your phone and switch the app, the tree dies.
• Flora - This is an alternative if you cannot or do not want to buy the forest app. It sort of works just like Forest, but you have a small 2D garden rather than a square terrain you see your trees grow on.
• Oak -  Oak helps the monkey-minded decompress by transforming meditation practices from experiments into habits. We support you from your first session to your 500th, with mindful, loving-kindness, and sleep meditations as well as unguided sessions and breathing exercises. Individualize your meditations by duration, and customize with silence or calming background sounds. Oak tracks your progress and encourages you to continue building a healthy meditation practice.

• Procreate - My absolute favorite app that works so well with art. I draw most of my art work in there and occasionally make headers and calligraphy with it.
• Ibis Paint X - This app is the pro version of another art app which has a few advantageous functions than procreate, but nonetheless helps a lot with making some really fine art.

• Over - The Over App is perfect to made headers and titles that are easily transferred to the goodnotes app.
• Phonto - The Phonto app is another perfect app to make the titles with, but it isn’t easily transferred to the goodnotes app and you would need to save the image as a png to upload it to the page, but there are more fonts you could and you can add a lot of your own fonts as well.
• Keynote - I use this app to make folders and planners and this works as a powerpoint but for apple of course. There are a lot of great tutorials that help with making cool planners and notebooks with this app.
• Docs - Helps download videos and documents off online through mobile devices and organize files accordingly
• Goodnotes - One of my favorite apps I use to take majority of my notes. It helps me organize my courses into different notebooks all in one app.
• PDF Expert- I use this app in order to view my textbooks straight from the drives I use and occasionally edit and note take directly on my PDF books.

• Chegg - College resource with a flashcard app as well.
• Course Hero - Upload documents to open documents related to the courses that you may be taking! Free when you upload your own documents, so try it! Great place to get accurate study guides.
• The Khan Academy - App to take practice tests and get guidance on material related to your courses. Great app to get you on track and help you focus!
• Quizlet - great app to organize flashcards and practice tests
• DuoLingo- A wonderful language app that helps me keep a streak and maintain my language learning.
• Periodic Table - This app is what it says it is. The periodic table. As someone who’s major focuses on Chemistry, I really do need this app and hopefully this app is useful for you all as well!

• VSCO - My favorite app that filters and edits images to make them look vintage or clean.
• Snapseed - Another editing app with more controls and settings to help edit the images and color in areas to make them brighter or dimmer.
• Afterlight 2 - A great editing app that helps add effects and details to images
• PicPlayPost - an app that helps with organizing my images into collages or video cropping to make my images look neater. I also use it to edit my watermarks
• Analog Seoul -  Analog Seoul is the eighth app of Analog Film City Series. With the specially created Analog Seoul photo filters, you can edit your pictures as if they were taken in Seoul.

• Printerpro - A great app that helps with printing wireless from your iPad.
• Scanner Pro - Scanning documents high quality and upload them to cloud
• Drive - The best and foremost easiest storage to use and because I go to school/ university I have unlimited space for my files!
• iCloud Drive - I only use this for photos or back ups, but occasionally it works well when I need to transfer files through apps that only use this form of storage.
• Dropbox - Another storage application, but I usually use this for items I don’’t really need unless there’s an emergency. I use it to store mostly audio files and heavy files for keynote

• Netflix - To watch all my favorite movies and shows
• Crunchyroll - I watch all my animes that I can here on this app
• Kissanime - of course an alternative to crunchyroll is kissanime if you want to find animes for free (there are ads though)
• Youtube - I mainly use this app for tutorials and guides to homework and projects
• The CW - I watch all of my favorite local shows like the Flash, DC Legends, and Riverdale on this app for free.
• MangaRock - I read most of my mangas on this app
• iBooks - the installed app by apple where I transport a lot of my books into for reading and entertainment
• VLive - For all my kpop friends, you know what this is for.

1. Clear desk, clear mind - I like to organise things before I start working. If things are messy, I get a little preoccupied and procrastinate even more. My suggestion is clear your desk, sort everything you’ll need to study and get on!
2. The two minute rule - If a task that needs to be done takes less than two minutes, just do it. My dad has often suggested that this is a great way to sort out your priorities and so far it has worked for me. Things like check my emails, cross off events from my planner, file something away don’t take long but get you in the mood for productivity. As they say “object in motion, stay in motion”.
3. Break your time up - Schedule your study time and any breaks you need to take. This helps structure your day and acts as a motivation to get things done. Especially if you can reward yourself at the end!
4. Leave your phone alone - Like most people I use my phone constantly but when I’m trying to work, it is best to leave it alone. Out of sight, out of mind. Try leaving it on silent and behind you so you aren’t tempted to pick it up after every beep. Use your break times to check it.
5. Find your top three to five priorities - Seeing a long list of things to do is usually, for some people, kind of counterproductive. Figure out the main things that need to be done and work on those. If you’re able to complete those main things, you’ll feel like you’ve accomplished the days necessities and may even want to complete some more.
6. Try using a mindmap instead of a to do list - Apparently using a mindmap layout instead of a traditional list can help boost productivity. It is a little more funky way to see all your outstanding tasks and might not look as overwhelming as a super long list.
7. Wear headphones - You don’t have to always listen to things but it can help block out any noise that can distract you. If you’re someone that likes some music, try songs with little or no words. This is a great playlist by Spotify.
8. Don’t multitask - As much as you think you can do it, trying to multitask usually ends up in a confused mess and takes twice the time. Stick to one task at a time. If you think of something you need to do, write it down and do it later.
9. Change things up - Doing the same things in the same place can get boring. Make the effort every now and then to change where you’re studying or how you’re studying. This can include moving your studying from the desk to the kitchen table for a change of scenery, or making flash cards instead of annotating your notes. Studying with a family member or friends is a fun way to get some work done!
10. Be positive - Most people have times when they just don’t want to study or anything, it is natural. However it is not worth sitting staring at your books in an unmotivated mood just waiting to feel inspired. If you’re not feeling it, do something else for a while. Come back to it a bit later and have another go. Usually walking away and coming back is all you need to feel more productive.

1. Allow yourself to get over the failure: take a few hours, a day, a weekend or however long you need. Just let yourself get over the mark.
2. Look at the teachers comments: This is very obvious but make sure to go through and see what exactly is the reason you haven’t received the grade you hoped for. They may have an opinion different to the exam specification to further your grade or say specifically what is missing.
3. Look at the mark scheme/ exam specification and highlight it: think about how the question should be answered and what needs to be included in your answer. Look for things that might be needed like quotes, facts, statistics etc
4. Read through your exam and highlight where you have used these things: if you see a quote then highlight it blue and if you see a statistic highlight it yellow. Make a colour code for thing you need to see and use it.
5. Look at how much you’ve used these neccassary things: is it too little? Then you need to include more. Too much to the point that you are not actually answering the question but rather just giving a history lesson? Cut it down. These facts should be intergrated into your answer.
6. Rewrite a paragraph: you know what you need to include and know how the question should be answered so now try rewriting one paragraph and perfect it.
7. Try to rewrite the whole essay or try a different essay: if you are struggling with just one specific question then redo that however maybe try another question if it’s purely the type of essay that you are struggling with.

• If you still struggle then speak to a teacher: They can help you learn the syllabus or answering the question if you struggle with one particular thing.
• Don’t blame yourself: school is hard so don’t feel it’s all your fault. Try to focus on improving.

• Write the poem on the way to school. Maybe this is just because I like poetry. And because I can’t write when other people are around. I’d probably get a first draft done by the time I get home.
• Do the research about structural unemployment. My school’s WiFi is terrible.
• Answer the quantum physics questions. The new information is still fresh in my brain and doing the homework will help me revise, easing the process of spaced repetition.
• Memorize the chemical reactions before I go to bed. Studying before you sleep is supposed to improve your memory, and since my memory is terrible, that’s exactly what I’ll do.
• Do the implicit functions problem set as soon as I get to school the next morning. Math is undoubtedly my best subject, and it’s very refreshing to do math at 6:45 AM in the morning.

1. Commit to what you’re doing
2. Delegate and prioritize
3. Give yourself shorter deadlines
4. Take breaks!

• draw pictures in your notes
• benefit from illustrations & presentations that use color
• use diagrams, graphs, underlining, mind-maps, etc
• study in a visually appealing place

• study in groups, discuss things out with other people
• record lectures, take part in a study group, go to tutoring
• reduce lecture notes to only the main ideas
• read texts out loud, pretend to teach someone else
• explain ideas to other people
• recite, recite, recite
• create jingles or mnemonics 

• take notes during the lecture
• underline, highlight, or circle printed material
• borrow other students’ notes to compare and contrast
• use a variety of colors, pens, highlighters, note cards, etc
• write it out, re-write your notes, create mind-maps
• make and use flashcards for studying

• trace letters and words to learn spellings, etc
• take several breaks
• write everything out
• move around to learn new things
• use non-distracting movement while you learn (like shaking your leg/foot, chewing gum, tap your pen/pencil)
• listen to non-distracting music
• study while walking or working out

• write things out but also use colors and diagrams
• move around, study in an isolated space, work at a standing desk

instrumental albums and playlists

• signs and wonders by elisha david 
• interstellar soundtrack 
• studio ghibli movies soundtrack 
• theory of everything soundtrack
• the immitation game soundtrack
• the crown season 2 soundtrack
• lofi/jazzhop playlist
• lofi/jazzhop playlist 2
• new feelings by elijah who
• don’t make me cry by elijah who
• complete harry potter movies soundtrack
• peaceful piano
• pride and prejudice soundtrack
• le petit prince soundtrack
• classical music for studying
• disney score to study to

non-instrumental (with singing) albums and playlists

• reading, studying, and rainy days
• acoustic covers
• kpop study music
• calm indie songs playlist
• your favorite coffeehouse
• study zone
• paradise by slow club
• the lumineers by the lumineers

• Museum Monday
• 1940′s Library
• City Apartment
• Bourbon Street 
• Turkish Bazaar 
• Wharf

• Christmas Festival
• Winter Farm House
• Spring in West Village
• Autumn City Park

• Studying With Rory Gilmore
• Ain’t No Party Like a Gatsby Party
• District 12
• Platform 9 ¾

• Five More Minutes (lazy morning)
• Sunday Brunch

1. Find out what you even write about: Sometimes the teacher says that directly, this makes it easier but sometimes they say nothing and just make intimations. In general, you have to find out the main topic (this will be really easy) but then you also need to know all the subtopics. Often you can find them in the title of a worksheet or in the pages of the book.
2. Find out how much time you spend with each subtopic and how detailed you discussed it: I often just flip through all my notes and worksheets to get an overview of how many we did about each subtopic and when I see we did many about the structure of a cell but not so many about the characteristic of alive organisms, therefore, I know that the first one will be more important and I have to learn it  more.
3. Search up all the information: For this point, I use all the things I have about this topic, like homework, worksheets, class notes, and the textbook often I also use the internet.
4. Summary: After that, I always write a summary (I prefer bullet points, but I also use sometimes graphics and drawings etc.)so I have all the information together but don’t throw it after the test away because often you do a similar topic again and then you have less work to do!
5. Decide what you already understand: I often do exercises like for math. When I see I have problems with a type of exercise I know that I have to learn it more and when you see you don’t understand something even after trying to find it out by yourself, please ask your teacher!
6. flashcards: I always make flashcards (except for vocabulary). There I write the most important information down and the things I don’t know so well. It’s like a little cheat sheet I just don’t use it while the test haha
7. Practice, Practice, Practice: Lastly after all the preparation you have to practice so that you can check yourself and tighten the information.