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Tips to Beat Exam-Time Stress

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | November 21, 2008 - 09:22

Amy L. Jarmon’s Adviser column in the November issue of Student Lawyer focuses on relieving stress during this very stressful month. Some of her best study and time management tips include:

  • Stay current on class reading, and pick up the past reading you’ve missed in smaller chunks.
  • If you’re behind in outlining for a class that covers non-overlapping topics, focus on outlining the most recent topics first, then go back for the older ones.
  • If you’re behind on researching and writing a seminar paper, set specific calendar deadlines to complete the tasks of researching, writing, and editing. And stick to them.

Ms. Jarmon also offers lifestyle tips to help reduce stress. Some of them you’ve heard about a million times before (get eight hours of sleep, be sure to exercise) – but a couple stood out as particularly helpful:

  • Choose a low-maintenance wardrobe during study season.
  • Clean house only every two weeks and do the necessities in between.
  • Drink water or green tea instead of constant coffee or pop.

The only piece of questionable advice was the part about freezing sandwiches for the week and taking one out each day to thaw for lunch. Eating a once-frozen sandwich?!? Now that would stress me out.


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