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Ace your exams with effective study breaks!

Team StoryWeavers|October 14, 2020, 21:46 IST| 17

Preparing for exams can be a very stressful time in a student’s life. You need to be focused and put in a lot of effort during this time. As important as it is to manage time during exams, it is also essential to take breaks. A breather of 10-20 minutes every 40 minutes can benefit you in several ways.

Now, let’s understand how to take effective study breaks to boost your overall productivity.

Importance of taking breaks

Breaks between study sessions can have many positive effects on your brain.

  • Stress buster: Long and intense study sessions can make you stressed and frustrated. A study break stimulates your mind and acts as a stress buster.
  • Concept organizer: Study breaks provide enough time for organizing the learned concepts. This curtails ambiguity in relating to topics and helps in better understanding .
  • Memory improver: A break during study sessions revitalizes your brain cells. This helps in correlating the new information with old ones and improving your memory.
  • Productivity booster: Taking a break during your study sessions induces increased attentiveness, and helps you grasp more information in less time.

How can you make sure that study breaks contribute to your learning process? Here’s a list of effective study break tips and ideas.

Tips to take effective breaks

  • Power of good nap: A refreshing nap rejuvenates the brain cells. This helps in collecting, processing, and storing information. According to a study conducted by The Wall Street Journal in 2013, 10-20 minutes is the ideal duration for a power nap. But a rest period of 60 minutes is suitable for students who are attempting to memorize facts, dates, and other crucial study material. On the other hand, a longer nap of 90 minutes boosts your creativity.
  • Exercise and Meditation: Convenient and old-fashioned physical activities such as running, jumping jacks, squats, or incline pushups produce neurons that can calm your already-stressed-brain. Additionally, meditation can reduce your exam anxiety and boost your overall physical and mental health. According to a Harvard study, meditating for 27 minutes every day (on average) eases your school-related anxiety, re-energizes your body, and reboots your mind.
  • Take a walk: Studying in the same place and sitting in the same position can tire you out. In such cases, take a walk. No, we don’t mean around the library or in the same study space. Go outside and breathe fresh air. Moving your body can help you regain your concentration and help you study much better.
  • Express through creativity: Working hard for a long time can be exhausting. To avoid this, take some time to indulge in creative activities like colouring, drawing, a quick dance-off, or any short DIY activity. These kinds of short breaks provide a healthy distraction, make you feel less stressed and help you stay focused.

Now you know how to take an effective study break. Practise these tips and let us know how it helped you in your exam preparation in the comments.

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Jashandeep singh

July 25, 2020

it is very good learning app for students


Ilina

June 4, 2020

Breaks are important… Thank you


Veena

April 3, 2020

Superb…. thanku so much sir/mam


Anjali kumari prasad

March 10, 2020

Want to know about it


Amresh kumar

February 27, 2020

Very best method


Keerthika Roshalini p

February 21, 2020

Very effective and useful tips. Thanks.


Rahul R

February 20, 2020

Tq for the tips. It feels good to me.


Harshit

February 20, 2020

I am sure icome first in exams


Anushka Panwar

February 15, 2020

Thanks byju’s for such nice tricks for well prepared of exams ??


Nehal surve

February 14, 2020

Thanks Byjus


JAY 31

February 13, 2020

Wow! Thanx Byju’s…..


Sanjana

February 12, 2020

Excellent tips !even my parents tell the same but this was very well elaborated. Thanks BYJU’S!


Bhumika Joshi

February 12, 2020

Thank you ??
Other app only provide us with explanations but
you provide us stuff to help us in studies boost
up our mind through amaizing gifts

Thanks you ❤❤


Shreya

February 12, 2020

Helpful tips for students


Sanjana

February 11, 2020

Wow its good idea for student


Dhruv Sharma

February 9, 2020

Very effective and time tested methods…


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