13/07/2025
We teach flexibility studying📊🗓🗓, that is why we only do scheduling for the following day & not for the entire week, how many times out of 52 weeks do you do your Fridays as you planned them on Sunday, realtalk here, we know students, that is why we don't do wall timetables when it comes to studying, they encourage rigidness. Yeah for attending class they work, but not for studying.
Studying 📚📚📚comes in levels, it is the art of taking concepts apart and understanding them, this is not just reading. Sometimes you read, understand concepts then & there, sometimes you get it now, then you lose it after some minutes, then regain back the understanding the following day, maybe you needed rest, sleep, or some you time. People normally take 2 - 3 days for certain difficult concepts to really sink in, hence one needs to allow for space & time for that to happen, and you can only do that if you are flexible in your studying.
Imagine following a wall timetable🗓🗓, daily alternating subjects, and one of the days some concept on a certain subject takes you longer than usual to understand, are you going to leave it half way done just because you have some timetable?, or are you going to continue?. Don't get me wrong, sticking to your plan is not wrong, thats what we do also, once you planned a day you stick to it 100%. It's the rigidness that we don't want, things like rest can't be planned exactly, you don't know if you will need a 2hr nap or 1hr nap. We don't know also, thats why we don't schedule naps for Friday on Sunday.
What we will normally do, based on that day's activity, we will continue scheduling that subject that needs time because we understand that understanding happens in steps, phases, as soon as we can identify what leads to what then we will look at other subjects.🧐🧐🧐
It's not only for that reason that we are employe flexible studying. There are certain days one needs to focus on the info already in the brain, so they don't forget it, that can take a while and we might need to skip reading anything new that day. That requires flexibility.
There are a lot of reason. I know there are people who like these wall timetable, however here, although we have 3 months & mid 3 months long term study planning, we also teach scheduling using today's activities & focusing only on planning for the following day, and there are tools to make sure we are making the right decisions.
Hardly in our experience as students do Fridays happen exactly how we planned them on Sunday, thats why learning to bring flexibility to our studying is so very important.🍸🥂🥂
