At colleges, it requires a little more effort to learn effectively and earn good CGPA, even with the help of learning style, strategies  and techniques. They do, however, need a little more work than the memorizing. Learning styles, however, have one advantage: they are functional and effective.

“Until I’m genuinely under pressure, I can’t really learn.” “I just study all night before the exam because the information is still fresh.” “I’m a night owl who can’t concentrate during the day because there’s too much going on.” It’s funny: even the best pupils revert to myth and legend when it comes to learning. Educators and psychologists working in the field of learning have developed some fantastic tools over the years.

• Understand Who You Are: Are You A Night Owl? Knowing who you are helps you to learn effectively. Are you the type that learn effectively at night whiles everybody is at sleep and the chirping sound of the crickets creating that natural rural ambient atmosphere for easy absorption of contents ?. Or you are the type that would like a hot cup of coffee by your side while you try to assimilate each topic?. Well you can adopt any of these strategies known to you, burn the mid night candle throughout the night but still feel lost, confused and stressed up, if you don’t apply the right learning style. When you know the learning style that best work for you, your learning becomes fun to you. At our stage we are well informed of these learning styles. The Visual, Auditory, Reading and Kinesthetic (VARK ) Style of learning is one best method of learning known to us. When you know where you fit best in these learning style it is easy for you to set and choose the best environment that suit you. (We will explore each of these learning style that best fit you later).
• Choose One Place For your Study. Are you the “sit on the dormitory bed” type of learner or the classroom room or the library learner? The dormitory type of learning often time comes with great distractions, with room mates chatting, playing games, door opening and closing. You can be focused at best but you know you can study effectively when you are in the study set-up environment- the classroom, library. Even when you don’t feel like studying once you realized that everyone around you is deep into their books, you are motivated to also study. It is good to sit at the same place to learn, it is one way of telling the brain I am here and ready to learn
• Learn Effectively By Eliminating All Time Wasters. It is very difficult to do away with distraction particularly among the college students. The most common form of distraction now is mobile phone. Averagely every student has a at least 3 mobile apps that are distractive in anyways. This app could be social media, games et cetera. All these students belong to social and academic groups and every second you have to check your phone so not to miss any updates from the tutor or your course representation. This is actually a grieve distraction but necessary. Anyway, even in early days of social media that was in 2005, a research was conducted by A Learning Researcher Glenn Wilson of University of London. Two groups of participants were asked to work on a concentration test for study. One participant group was continuously inundated with new emails on their test screen. The other group who were stoned to utopia (high with marijuana) performed quite better than the group who were distracted with emails. Remember the research is not endorsing anyone to smoke marijuana neither is it telling us that marijuana can boost concentration (that is a Subject for Future Discussion) but rather to cut off any distraction if we really want to learn. In our case it is incessant distraction of social media messages.
• Learn With Motivation Our system is design to maintain patterns in a long term and resistant to change, unless it is exposed to danger, or there is a reward of which one is mandated to part take in, that is according to a university psychologist Hans-Werner Rückert. You see, the possibility of writing an exam does not necessary and willingly urge one to study with joy. But we should thrive to move from I have to study for the exam to I just want to learn. When you are able to sit and learn continuously you should set clear goal for yourself, like “If I am able to understand a particular concept by my time-line without necessary memorizing every content I shall play my favourite video game.

Learn properly with learning phases

Ones learning period can be divided into stages:

a. The preparation stage, in which you get the books you want to study, find out the possible examination questions and sought the topic you want to study.

b. The main stage is the actual learning stage.

c. The revision stage is where you learn again what you had already learnt but forgotten

d. A review stage where you assess yourself and see if you can learn and recall everything you had learnt.

Before you get started, you should make a written calendar. Enter all lecture periods mostly from 07:00am to 04:00pm, within this lecture periods there may be free time, add any short study time for instance the topic you are about to be taught, after lecturing. After lecture hours add the subjects and topic you would like to study on your calendar. And stick to the calendar. At the end of each week schedule a time on your calendar and review everything you have learnt during the week. Always take a short break after an hour or less studies.

Most students try to learn every subject and attempt to assimilate too many materials at first on a given day. If you realised that you are not making progressive quickly in absorbing and understanding what you are learning, adjust your time management and plan the night to see how the following day will be like in terms of your daily extra curriculum activities, like cleaning and the rest. Attend to your individual tasks according to priority.

Breaks are very important when studying. There are different types of break in studying, Understanding Break of one to five minutes in which you have understood what you had learnt and you have become clear about the topic. Intermediate breaks are there to refresh you after about an hour or more studies, this break normally takes 15 to 20 minutes. Leave your study table, take a walk, eat or sip something light, attends to your personal needs. A short nap or siesta is recommended after long study like from 2 to 3 hours or more studies.