Time management

Managing your study time

There are only so many hours in a day. This you cannot change. What you can do is learn how to make the most of your time. In order to be truly successful in school you need to be able to manage your study time.

Visit the website:

http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/1_StudySkills/study_tuts/time_manage_LL/05time.html

Read the following sections:

Home

General tips

Procrastination

Interruptions

Tools

Activity 1 – Where does the time go?

Complete the activity chart (using the link below) with the number of hours you spend on activities in order to see how much time you have left over for study.

http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/1_StudySkills/study_tuts/time_manage_LL/activity1.html

Activity 2 – Weekly study planner

Fill in your activities on the timetable given (using the link below) in order to see where you have time left for studying.

http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/1_StudySkills/study_tuts/time_manage_LL/activity2.html

On the Tools page download a daily, weekly and semester planner. Print off a weekly planner and fill in. If you have time do the same for the daily and semester planners.

Further Readings:

http://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/1_StudySkills/study_pdf/timemanagement.pdf

http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/pdf/time.pdf

Podcasts:

• Time management and procrastination  (7m03s/4.03MB)
  
• Time management issues  (6m10s/3.52MB)
• Setting goals and making plans  (6m30s/3.72MB)
• Transcript  (PDF/274KB)