Creating An Ideal Time Table For Your Board Exam

Creating an effective time table is necessary for every exam, but the need is even more critical for Board exams where syllabus is expansive, performance is critical to your future and stress levels are very high causing a lot of confusion. Even after following a strict study schedule, you might realize that the exams are only a month away and there is a lot more that needs to be done. A practical thing to do in such a situation would be to redesign your time table for the last one month period. Try and use a use a very practical approach to this. The steps below will help you through the process:

Step 1: Planning Your Study Time

First take an account of the number of days left for your exam. Next take an account of your daily activities and identify the specific amount of hours you want to spend every day on your studies. Also, take weekends and other holidays into account as you will have more hours available for self study. Try and be very realistic about the goals you set here, making a good allowance for breaks in between.

Step 2: Balance Your Subjects

Now taking the total time identified above, try and divide it across various subjects. You can divide it by hours or days of the week. You are the best judge of your strengths and weaknesses, so allocate your time based on what subjects you need to focus more on. How much of each subject you have already covered and how proficient you think you are at it will have an impact on your decision here.

Step 3: Segregate Time for Study, Revision & Past Exam Papers

For each subject, try and create a rough division of your study timeline by set of chapters / sections / topics. The idea here is to have a goal for yourself as to what percentage of the syllabus you need to cover by a certain time/date.

For each subject, also divide the time between:
> Study
> Revision
> Past examination papers
> Extra Time to make up for contingencies

Step 4: Establishing Accountability

At the end of the day, we are all accountable to ourselves to follow the plan of action we have created above. However that does not always work out. Temptations tend to get the better of us and lead to procrastination. So it is a good idea to involve your parents or a sibling or a close friend, and share with them the timetable. You can ask them to check with you at intervals and remind you when you go astray! 🙂