1. Stay Calm
It is so important to keep calm during a stressful week like finals. Though all you want to do is scream and freak out it is important to keep calm and know things will work out.
2. Remember your GPA doesn't define you
You want to do well on your finals and keep up your GPA if it is for getting into grad school, your sorority or fraternity, scholarships, or just because you want to keep it up. We all have a bad semester though. That semester and that grade on your chemistry test doesn't define you as a person or your self worth.
3. Simple: Study
This seems so simple but so many people think that studying the night before will work but in reality that isn't how your brain works and you need to study ahead of time. It might seem simple but studying is how you will succeed.
4. Sleep
Though most people want to stay up all night studying for their finals sleep is actually a very important part to finals week. There is a point that your brain will not want to absorb anymore information and you need to rest. If you are tired and trying to take a test it will make it much harder to remember information. So no matter how much you want to stay up and keep studying remember that sleep is important.
5. Take breaks
After hours of studying you can start to get exhausted and burnt out. Take a walk or a drive or even a trip to Starbucks for some coffee. Getting up and stepping away from the studying even if it is just for 10 minutes will help.
6. Coffee is your best friend
You will have some long nights of studying and trying to stay awake can be hard but coffee is your best friend during finals week in order to survive this awful week of every semester.
7. Don't procrastinate
Along with tests there are also a insurmountable amount of projects that you also much complete. Though you want to be studying for your tests don't put off that 10 page paper till the night before it is due because then you will be in trouble.
8. Form study groups
Studying with people from your classes can be very helpful. If you have a very hard final get people from your class together and have everyone study together. This will help you by teaching them things but also them teaching things that you might have forgotten.
9. Make a check list
It can be very helpful to create a check list of everything you need to do. This helps organize everything into a neat way but also it can feel nice to be able to check off tasks that you complete making the list smaller and making you think that you are getting close to being done.
10. You can do it
Though finals is an awful week with lots of stress you will survive and you will make it thorugh. Once you are done remembering that you are done and you get a month break where you get to go home and relax. You will make it and you will do great!
