Organizing Yourself
Many new students find it hard to do all the study that has to be done; they find themselves putting
off reading assignment, jumping from one subject to another and rarely being quite certain what they are
trying to do during a particular study session. The best way to overcome these difficulties and to start
studying efficiently is to plan your time and organize your work. Let us suppose that you have 15 hours
per week of classes and that you decide to allow yourself a 40hour working week (a reasonable figure,
leaving you 70 waking hours for other activities).
You now have to decide how to divide the remaining 25 hours of private study. Naturally the
decisions you make will change from week to week according to what essays have to be written and
what reading has to be done. Many people find it helpful to draw up each week a sevenday timetable
showing the occasions on which they will be working privately and the particular subjects that will be
studying on each occasion.By checking such a plan at times during the week, you can see what you have
done and what you have still to do：the whole plan becomes more manageable. There are a number of
places where you can study college library, public library, home, empty classrooms, on bus or train and
each has several obvious advantages and disadvantages.The college library is least busy in the evening,
on Wednesday afternoon, and all day Friday and Saturday.
When you are deciding where to study, keep the following suggestions in mind:
1. Try to study always in the same place. After a while the familiar surroundings will help you to switch
into the right frame of mind as soon as you sit down.
2. Find somewhere with as few distractions as possible.
3. Make sure that your study place has a good light and is warm (but not hot) and well aired.
1. What's the main idea of this passage?
A. Plan your time and organize your work.
B. Overcome your difficulties.
C. Be certain what you can do.
D. Find a quiet place for study.
2. A student's organization of his work will need to change according to________.
A. how many hours he is awake
B. how many subjects are required
C. how many lectures he misses
D. what he has to write and read that week
3. A student is advised to make a weekly plan and to check it from time to time in order to________.
A. see whether he has calculated it properly
B. see what day of the week is
C. see what work still needs doing
D. see how he feels at the whole week
4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a place where you can study?
A. The bus.
B. The train.
C. Home.
D. A public house.
