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With deadline season truly looming I thought I'd stick with yet another post to help out! As we all know, procrastination is the demon that turns even the best laid plans into a day wasted in your pyjamas binge watching Game Of Thrones, watching all the Lord Of The Rings in one sitting and having a room so clean you have to re-dirty it in order to hide the fact that you spent your entire afternoon sorting your socks by cotton content! Whatever you do to procrastinate, I'm sure you'll be aware of the effect it can have on your exams and assignments. So what can you do?  Well it turns out that you can actually do a lot! It just takes some organisation and self discipline.  Make A Timetable and Stick To It! So this seems obvious, but the amount of people who say they're going to work 9am-5pm but actually end up working closer to 9pm-5am! Not only does working at these hours hurt your revision at the time, but it will also make it harder to remember what lit...

With everything in life, it's important to eat healthily. The same applies to revision, so here I have a few tips about what to eat in order to get the best results from your revision. Please check out my post about  how to revise properly  aswell for some more tips We all know it's a pain, but you can make it slightly more bearable! So one of the first things I want to cover here are energy drinks, now these are good  if say you've got a deadline for a report or something and you need to pull an all nighter, but when it comes to long term revision, you want to try and stick to a normal sleep cycle, as this helps to consolidate memories and prevents you from being groggy and slow for the next few days (for more see the previous post about sleep). So you shouldn't really be revising really late at night. Also a lot of people tend to have energy drink crashes when they finally stop drinking energy drinks, if you got an energy drink crash in the middle of an exa...