MARMAC

Are you a morning or evening person? Do you take hours in the shower? Or in the dressing room? Do you eat rather slowly? Is your house too far from school that commuting or the traffic makes you often come to class late?
Be honest in the self-test. What things take much time from your studying? Do you do the marketing and cooking at home? Or watch your younger siblings? Do you need to develop speed reading? Or are your friends often with you and you have to exert mighty efforts all the time just to leave or send them away when you must study?

Time is so powerful: nothing and no one can keep it from coming and passing. And it is all-precious: everything that can happen can happen only in time.
Those wise statements tell you how important time is, particular y to your studies. There seems more and more to do which leads you to think you are “running out of time.” Time runs and no matter what you do, there will always be only 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day and seven days in a week. But stop and take stock of your situation, then ask: do you really not have enough time? Is time really too short for you?
With increasing demands on securing more and better knowledge, resulting in more and more tasks that cry out for attention and completion, , and time never bending or stretching out even a single minute more to accommodate these human endeavours, it will seem so. But in truth, time is a constant. The only thing that has increased and keeps increasing is the overwhelming demand for more of it. Neither will give way, so you must strike out a balance nor manage the only time available for your avalanche of activities.
One thought, though, may bother you. Why is it that you and others like you seem never to have enough time, yet there are many lazybones who loiter and do crazy things because they have “too much time” in their hands? This situation is more than a matter about time. It is about values and self- image. A person who sees value in himself and in his life will also value the time he has. He will spend it usefully and meaningfully. But a person who thinks he is hopeless, unimportant and a liability to society will have much trouble “killing time” because time won’t die. We are all creatures of time who can only use time wisely or waste it. And we are endowed with reason to discover ways of making time an ally, not an enemy. It is a moment-to-moment choice each of us must make.
But no bother. You are of the first type. You are armed with a very commendable objective of studying as effectively as possible. More than that, you are dead-set to get to the top. This is why you need to develop a mastery of time in order to make it work for you in achieving your dream.

As you practice, imagine your audience in front of you. Begin practicing from your full outline, then move gradually to your key word outline as the other becomes imprinted in your mind. Maintain eye contact with your imaginary listeners, just as you will during the actual presentation. Look around the room so that everyone feels included in your message. Try to be enthusiastic about what you are saying. Let your voice suggest that you are confident. Strive for variety and colour in your vocal presentation avoid speaking a monotone, which never changes pace or pitch, Pause to let important ideas sink in. Let your face, body, and voice respond to your ideas as you utter them.