Why?

After some time studying and sitting half-yearly exams, she was tired, bored and needed a break.

From working with other students, this appears to be a widespread problem.

So, with that in mind, I thought I would discuss ways that you can re-motivate yourself to study and get back into the swing of things!

Firstly, I want to explain why it is important to continue to study. Studying is essentially a habit. Like any habit it, it is easy to break, but difficult to create.

Taking a break from studying (anything longer than a week), disrupts routine and habit, and it makes it progressively harder for you to discipline yourself to sit down and get some work done.

So why should you maintain studying now, even if you are feeling a lack of motivation? Because it will be much more difficult to re-create your positive study habits! (If you do not have positive study habits, write a study plan. Read some of my previous posts for more information)

Secondly, maintaining study during your period of low motivation is important as it will prevent you from falling behind. This is a crucial reason to maintain your study. Why? With your next large assessment being the Trials, if you drop the ball now, you will have to play catch up prior to your Trials, which will be stressful, difficult, and likely result in you not reaching your potential.

This can have devastating effects on your overall mark, considering Trials are often weighted at 50% of your internal mark.

So, how can you improve your motivation, and maintain your study discipline, even when you do not feel like it?

Here are some little tricks that 98+ UAI student's use.

1) Calculate your current marks and determine exactly what marks you need to achieve in your remaining internal assessments to reach your academic goals you have set. By creating a clear vision of what you need to achieve, you will have a greater urgency to study and prepare. Write these on a big piece of paper and post it up somewhere you can see it, to remind you.