1. Consider first to have a special room for your convenient studies. Tell your family or household members that you need quietness and privacy for your study. It’s recommendable to have your own drawing tools, reference or text books and charts. Inside your room, install a good bright light to illuminate your work conveniently without dimness or glare. The best position of light is indirect, diffused and electric. Remember, it should not cast a shadow on your desk nor shine in your eyes. Move your desk to the best area you can under your room’s roof light, if you can’t purchase a desk light. Change the bulb if the light it releases is not sufficient enough. When you are taking down notes, your textbook and notebook should be evenly lit to help you avoid eyestrain.
2. Set a fixed time for your convenient studies and sincerely work unto your schedule. This will help you a lot to maximize your free time without being anxious that you might be carefree to your lessons.
3. Set a time limit on your studies, like for instance, when you have assignments or reviewing your lessons for the upcoming test o examination. Be prepared first, start on time, and work as rapidly and as thoroughly as possible on the subject. Avoid stuffs or things like TV, radio, phone calls, computer games and visitors that might distract your studies, but, rather concentrate. Set your mind that you must sincerely do the time limit you have made for your studies. Stop on time. Avoid pressing yourself to study if you are too tired because the efforts and time you have exerted would only be useless.
   Focus your attention or concentrate while answering your assignments, studying or reviewing your lessons for the forthcoming test or examination. Let nothing or any noise from your surroundings disturbed your concentration while attending to your studies. Do measures to avoid diverting your attentions from doing your assignments or reviewing your lessons.
4. Make a doable plan for your study guide. Have a timetable to know the amount of efforts for you to finish your lessons. Divide your time fairly evenly between subjects, but with a little more emphasis on those that you find tougher. Do it neatly and make a note on your study table which will constantly remind you for your time schedule. It should be flexible to entertain some changes, but above all, after you have made it, stick to it. Be dedicated and discipline yourself to do your study timetable.
5. Have a variety on your study time. If you are studying for a couple of hours on one subject matter, break it up into smaller segments. Do something else, if you begin making a lot of errors, and return to the problem later. Your subconscious mind will have a little time to work on it, and it may come out better for you later. Make something unusual like having a short snack, jog outside or do some push-ups. This is also advisable if you want to begin on a new subject, as the one you have just finished will still be on your mind.
6. Exert more time on lessons or subjects which you have a lower grade or performance. Make it as a priority in your studies. Consider to give more time on lessons or subjects which are tougher and timetable the span of attention you have to consume to finish them. Study first the lesson which seems difficult for you like a Mathematics subject.
7. Avoid studying your lessons while lying on your bed. Never place the book on a flat position while reading or reviewing your lessons in your notebook. It is best to hold the book or notebook on a vertical position while reading and reviewing your lessons so that your eyes won’t easily get tired.
8. Resist the habit of cramming to your studies. It’s not a good attitude to be accustomed with reviewing or studying all your lessons just for a whole day. It will just cause headache or torment if you press your mind to study all your lessons for one day, especially, when you will have a test or examination for tomorrow. Instead, study your lessons every day to avoid stress before the test or examination.
9. Make strategies how to read fast. Give yourself a reading-speed test in your spare time. It is important to consider some ways on how to read fast your lessons, particularly, during college where so much time is being consumed in reading your lessons for every course. Use a simple story-type books on something you would want, but it should not be too dull or too interesting subject matter.  Set a time limit of ‘one minute’ by either using stop watch or having a friend to couch you while you are studying your lessons. Read at your normal “pleasurable-reading” speed. Stop on time and count the number of words.

Ways how to improve your reading rate:

• Avoid reading aloud your books, notes or lessons. Place your finger on your lips while reading; there should be no movement. Break yourself of the unconscious habit of reading aloud under your breath.
• Concentrate on the meanings of groups of words, not on the words themselves. Just go through, trying to pick up the content of what is happening, and never be trapped on admiring the shape of each letter.
• Stick to what are essential matters only. This means that your eyes do not move steadily along the line of print, but “jump” from group to group. If you read, looking for a special group of words or a key paragraph, you can sometimes grasp up to three lines in one “jump” just by flicking your eyes from section to section, just touching on important areas.
• Do memorization formula. It is best to memorize the key words or key paragraph when your mind is relaxed or at peace. Avoid memorizing after you have consumed so much time to your lessons. Try to understand what you are memorizing to easily remember them.
• Use our “muscle memory” or senses such as eyes, ears and touch. The best way to memorize is to write out and cartoon the material, and read it aloud at the same time. Use every memory input you can.
• Learn to concentrate and ask God the Holy Spirit to intensify your determination to work out your goal on how to study your lessons effectively. James 1:5 says “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
• Do the recall formula. This only imply of getting back all the key words or key paragraph you have memorized.
• Sharpen your vocabulary terms. Using Webster’s dictionary and Thesaurus will help a lot to easily understand some definitions or meaning of words you have came across with while reading your lessons.
• Read the whole lesson to get its gist or general idea while you are studying it. Repeat reading a lesson on a “part by part” method. Try to give your own interpretations from all the lessons you have read or studied and form some questions out of them.
• Plan ahead the lessons you are going to study for one week so that you can finish, at least, half of your workloads before Saturday comes. Avoid studying all of your lessons just for the whole Sunday because this will be very stressful for you.