During the study, you will have many evenings when you sit at home and study - that means hunched over a desk in an attempt to understand what is written in your textbook.

With a few simple tricks, you can make your student more effective. With effective in the sense that you learn more by the time you do get to use on your studies.

Tricksne is taken from the book Get 12 that helps students gain a better grades .

no cell phone

First trick - whether you sit at home and read or university - is to put the cell phone away from you. The mobile phone chimes and bamler and call on your attention.

When you study effectively is to "flow". You are deeply focused and understand what you read. But there should be no more than a single SMS message or Facebook Messenger to remove your flow and thereby destroy your study rhythm.

Put the cell phone away. Set it as an alternative to airplane mode, if you use it to take time on your study sessions or the like.

Well with light

Light gives life and light gives concentration. Are you sitting in semi-darkness it is difficult to read what is written on paper and you fall asleep. Light is also the reason why you are not so easy to fall asleep after sitting with computer. Modern computers are illuminated so strongly, your body does not dare let you fall asleep, because it thinks it still is today when you hold the computer in front of you.

Invest in a pair of sharp lights for your reading station. You can find inspiration in Lyys.dk . Sea like both a ceiling lamp and a desk lamp.

If you're working late at night and plan on actually falling asleep later, you can install the free application Flux. With Flux is bagskærmsbelysningen on your computer gradually more and more orange, making it easier for you to fall asleep because your body thinks it has seen a sunset so get ready to sleep.

Big screen to write on

Your 13 "Macbook Air screen is not big enough to type on.

Invest in an external monitor, you standing on your desk. 22 inches is the minimum. 25 inches is even better. If your computer can pull it, so choose a computer that can pull 2560x1600 and not just plain full HD.

It allows you to have multiple Word-sheet directly up on the computer. You can do research and write almost at the same time. You may also have research standing in your browser or perhaps a PDF open while you can grasp what you type in Word.

Sound Isolating earphones

A few cars colliding in the hallway, the neighbor slamming the door or the television that makes background noise. All this is irritating and helps you to lose focus when you study.

You can for about 1,500 kroner and older get a few good and sound isolation headphones. You can hear your calm and quiet student friendly music while you shut out the surrounding world.

You must of course not use your investment in traffic where it is important that you can hear and see what is going on in front of you, behind you and on the side - but for studio use where you need into the details and read what it says is Sound Isolating Earphones a real bargain.