How to "dream" in class

How to dream in class

Have you ever been in class and feel that your mind starts to wander? Ever been called by the teacher in this? This page will give you steps, tips and warnings to avoid detection and embarrassment. If you follow all the steps, tips and warnings, you will successfully be able to dream in a classroom without being caught.

Steps
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Start your dream when you feel that the teacher begins a conference. The most undetectable way to dream is either to look at notes or look directly at the teacher; if you often daydream, your eyes should be able to follow the teacher in the room effortlessly.
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Position yourself so that you are comfortable. Try to make your hand into a fist and place it on your chin or cheeks; This gives the illusion that you are in thought.
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Remove all the supplies you need. An empty office gives teachers an excuse to call on you.
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Finish your required and resume your dream job. This way you finish your work and be free to more work later in the day.
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Pay attention to the lesson time to time; if you are called, you may know the answer to a question.
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To take notes; they will no doubt be useful later. If you feel you do not have to take adequate notes or ask the teacher to explain again or ask a friend to see their notes.
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Do not look in the room or keep your mouth open; it's too obvious. Look at the textbooks, your teacher, or the board.
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You feel no longer get to read books? This is a common syndrome

You feel no longer get to read books? This is a common syndrome

Internet has he really killed our long meditative communion with the texts or are we just nostalgic for a reading of Eden that never really existed?

Slate is an online magazine, you are probably reading this text on a screen. It is even likely that you read the morning rather than the evening. Maybe you're at work, looking for simple information rather than a long contemplative experience. You probably other tabs open ... and you zap on one of them if I bored you.
Your eyes may be a little tired by the flickering of the screen or it took them a while to adjust to the font used by Slate, which differs slightly from the site where you were before. You should pause for 20 seconds if it has been more than half an hour you have not left eye your computer screen, your smartphone, tablet or eBook. Go ahead, I expect. And it does not matter if you do not return -we all know now that most people will not go to the end of this article. If you come back, however, I want to talk about something that concerns me lately: the insecurity of the reader.
It is becoming a cliché among people who have twenty years (especially those over 25 years): as soon as one begins to talk about books, articles or some text either of a certain length, there is always a person to get to whine that it "happens not to liiiiiiiire" explaining that all this is the fault of the Internet, which has significantly reduced concentration abilities. Then follows the story of his early years, during which she could stay for hours immersed in a novel, whereas today it is no longer able to observe scrolling tweets, fluttering like the fish in the river of time-which-does-return-plus.

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25 Most Famous Libraries Of The World

For centuries libraries have been one of the hallmarks of major cities as well as minor ones. From public libraries to university institutions, libraries serve as a repository of information and knowledge. Some libraries are a little more well-known, of course. Here are 25 of the most famous ones the planet is home to.

1. 1.      Library Of Parliament – Located in Ottawa, Canada, this building is found on the Canadian ten dollar bill and is a national landmark. It’s closed to the public but does offer tours to guests.
   2.      Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – This Toronto based library is the home of the largest collection of rare books in Canada and has an impressive collection of items.
   3.      Seattle Central Library – One of the newest libraries on this list, this library was built in 2004 and features one of a kind glass and steel construction that helps it truly stand out as something unique.
   4.      Abbey Library of Saint Gall – This library, located in St. Gallen, Switzerland, is the country’s oldest library and one of the oldest monastery libraries in the entire world. It has a huge collection of very rare books and documents.
   5.      Austrian National Library – The Austrian equivalent of the Library of Congress, this library houses the country’s publications as well as numerous historic documents.
   6.      Library of the Benedictine Monastery – This library is located in Austria and is the largest monastery library on the planet.
   7.      National Library Of Sweden – This library preserves all Swedish printed works. It’s home to more than 20 million different items.
   8.      Morgan Library and Museum – Housing numerous famous and historic books and works of art, this 1906 institution holds the private collection of JP Morgan.
   9.      Trinity College Library – Home of the famous ‘Long Room’, this Dublin based library is that country’s equivalent of America’s Library of Congress.
   10.  Jay Walker’s Library – With more than 50,000 books, this library is often called the most amazing library in the world, although it’s closed to the public.
   11.  Danish Royal Library – This is Denmark’s official National Library and dates back to 1648, holding all works printed in that country since the 17th century.
   12.  The Library Of Congress – This is certainly the most famous and the largest library in the world. Open to the public, it is basically the national library of the United States. It’s also the oldest federal cultural institution in the country, and is home to more than 32 million books and 61 million manuscripts as well as numerous unique, historical documents.
   13.  Reading Room Of the British Museum – Located in the Great Court of the British Museum, this library is an information center as well as a large collection of curated books. It’s a stunning piece of architecture and truly a marvel to see.
   14.  Bodleian Library – Situated in Oxford, UK, this library is one of the oldest in Europe, dating back to 1602. It has more than 11 million items within its walls.
   15.  Vatican Library – Established in 1475, this is one of the oldest libraries in the entire world. It holds the oldest complete manuscript of the bible as well as over one million other books.
   16.   Yale University Beinecke Rare Book Library – This is the largest building in the world that is focused solely on the preservation of rare books and manuscripts and is open to the public.

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Why are we taught mathematics?

Why are we taught mathematics?

And by the way, what do math?

As a math teacher, but above all as a person who loves math and that math brought much (in my training and in every day life), I am concerned about the current lack of vocations for this discipline (and science in general). I especially asked about the role and utility of mathematics for me who had studied them (I had done by simple taste) and especially to those to whom I was going to teach them, often forced to study math, they rarely passionate. Three questions seem to me fundamental:

1. Why is mathematics education compulsory (beyond knowledge count)? Why the math she were in France as much importance to the point of serving the same selection criteria for occupations that use the most?
2. What pleases in math for those who love? What makes it a nightmare for others?
3. What do math?

Explanation of these questions:

• The first question seems all the more crucial that we tend to briefly answer that math are used everywhere, so that students know very well that a large part of them are touch more past contests and examinations. To be honest, mathematical theories learned in school will not be used as such in most of those studying. If in many trades MAY be used math if desired, there is also much that we can do without. Hence the importance of the first question.

• The second question provides a different approach since most of you are forced to study math (and the teachers are forced to teach to students who do not want it), there he was using do not hate them or love them a little?

• In fact, after so many years studying math, you know what it is? And do you know what to expect after your studies if you keep the math?

These questions seem crucial, and I feel that the time when I was in school no one had ever asked me to think about it. You have the chance, try to answer by yourself. It is a way of becoming an actor of your own learning, and not to suffer it. You can then read, if you like, responses (personal and subjective) I would give right now.

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I) Doing mathematics

In high school, when we do not understand, we tend to summarize a chapter by chapter the last formula, the most difficult, and that we have not understood in general. Thus making you forget that the most important of mathematical activity was elsewhere, in all the preliminary ...

Here (with examples) the presentation of various aspects of the mathematical approach.

1) The definition

The deeper issues are sometimes the simplest. precisely define the objects we handle always (it's called "axiomatizing") to determine a starting point to demonstrate more complex properties. Do you know for example what is a number? (Or simply "an integer, a rational number, a real number). A question that may arise is: who will invent a Martian math without knowing anything about mathematics land, would it lead to invent the same numbers? (Of course, he would not give them the same name). Or: what is a map? a vector ? a function? the form of an object? Can we move a cube to a ball by pulling it? And a ball at a donut? What is probability? so try to calculate the probability that a randomly taken on a rope circle is shorter than the side of an equilateral triangle inscribed in the circle?This exercise is called Bertrand paradox. When you have the solution (there are several, with different results.

What is a surface or volume? Intuitively, this is something that measures the size of a figure (in the plane or space) and that checks a simple property: the meeting of the volume number (2, 10, or a finite number) is disjointed figures the sum of the volumes of these various figures. However, Banach and Tarski showed that one could (theoretically) cut a ball in a finite number of pieces, move these pieces and rearrange them (like a puzzle) into a ball of radius twice as large. So that you could theoretically cut into pieces and a pea into a ball the size of the sun !!! This paradox shows that the notion of volume is delicate and needs to be properly defined (and "simple" forms only). Curiously, this paradox does not occur in the plane with the surfaces ...

2) Ratings

The second important aspect of mathematics, overlooked by the novice, is that of notations: math is a language that creates new words and new rules that describe more precisely notions. "Details" as the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals (before, only the big officials knew multiplications ask!), Equal signs, +, x, etc. and to give a name (s) of unknown did make the giant leaps mathematical putting within reach of the college once very difficult operations. The notion of derivative, such as today learns any first occupied at the origin of several books high school !!! So every notations used today is actually a digest that summarizes centuries of evolution, enrichment, research. Hence the importance of rigor and precision in their use. This work continues on the ratings there ...

3) Demonstration

Once clarified the concepts, remains to agree on the rules of reasoning and therefore demonstration. This concept has evolved (eg the Greeks used "demonstrations by figures ..."). The question we might ask is: can we prove it? In other words, do any mathematical property that is not false is provable? This is Gödel and his famous incompleteness theorem that answered in the negative in any theory, regardless of the number of initial axioms that we chose, there are properties that can not be demonstrated, but as leur contraire ne peut pas être démontré non plus... Ceci veut dire qu'il existe des propriétés vraies qu'on ne peut pas démontrer, et des propriétés dont on ne peut pas dire si elles sont vraies ou fausses, mais qu'en plus on a le choix de les considérer vraies ou fausse !

4) The actual calculations

This is the best-known aspect of mathematics: solving problems and equations, the practical calculation of these solutions. These equations can come of physics (you will see a number next year: Newton's laws of mechanics, equations of an electrical circuit), computer (if we synthetic images, how to calculate the moving a character?). Do you know for example what navigation and GPS use geometry you do since college? Cryptography (encoding of data so that it can not be read by matter which) uses math as one approaches specialty TS math? The search engine Google uses and solves 500 million equations systems with as many unknowns?Moreover, it is often these applications (which have enormous economic and strategic issues) who ordered the development of new mathematical branches, and which mathematicians are and will always highly sought after.

5) existence of problems

That said, when the actual calculations fail, when that does not have options, we simply question the existence of solutions to a problem.You know solving an equation of degree 2. There are formulas for solving equations of degree 3 and 4. It was long sought formulas for fifth degree before Galois shows that "there is no formula to solve the equations of degree 5, and in addition that the solution exists theoretically, one can only calculate approximate values ​​"for example, we have that we can not express the roots of the polynomial x ^ 5 - 4x + 2, while a simple study of first function allows to give guidance. In fact, in the field of college geometry, are there other transformations preserving distances (isometrics) than those seen in college (symmetries, rotation, translation)? The specialty courses in response TS math ...

II) To love or not math

What one can love in math:

• Things are simple in the sense that they are either true or false. When one is in the right, we will not have a hard time convincing others. As we answered a question in general we know if the response is good, we do not need to come back, so that you can go further.

• There is elegance in mathematical theories, by their simplicity and brevity. Knowledge does not accumulate as in other areas. In math we can do a lot by learning little by heart (understanding rather than learn). For example, the complete TS program takes a single sheet (one-sided), the spe math program (12 hours per week) with all demonstrations and curricular concepts held by a double sheet!

• This is a very powerful instrument. Can quickly achieve results and applications that seemed out of reach (and unfortunately high schools programs do not give time to develop ongoing). Besides, master the math can address much more easily other sciences (especially physics).

• It is a formal, logical game which stimulates thinking (a bit like the logical game, chess, Sudoku, but of course more complex) and, once you have mastered a few basics, it can be very rewarding.

Making it difficult for some math:

• Math is a language: to do interesting things he must first master the grammar and spelling. So there are rules that must be learned to be applied automatically, without question them, not to mention, as in French. Moreover, school math is sometimes closer in the minds of grammar courses as other science courses. It may be noted that these same reasons, spelling and grammar are usually also hated that math ...

• It takes discipline, which is a form of discipline here than elsewhere must apply the rules, not to be content with approximations. It is learned, but it is difficult. So that most are discouraged by the well before this obstacle math, and achieve rewarding moments those in which we understand.

• Math is challenging: if we want to understand the language, it takes practice and it takes (to all, even the best) efforts, patience and work outside the classroom. We can not hope to escape being who all retained. There is certainly a big bonus when you come to the end of a problem, but it's true that there are now more immediate distractions ...

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Bad in Maths, it's on the head!

Square roots, theorems, geometry ... nothing to do, it does not. intelligence question? Rather emotions, meets the psychologist Anne Siety. With her young "traumatized" make encouraging progress.

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Who is Anne Siety?

Former student of the ESCG (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) and holds a DESS of clinical psychopathology, Anne Siety has specialized in the field of psychology of mathematics. She practices in private and in different institutions, and teaches at the University - Paris X and Paris-VIII - the educational sciences. She is also the author of Mathematics, dear terror (Hachette, 2003).

What anxieties and difficulties faced by children since math is the yardstick of the "good student"! In the work she has put into this, Anne Siety, psychologist, debunks two prejudices. A: math would be inhumane. Rather, it argues, there is nothing more human. This discipline refers to our body, our identity, our experience of the relationship and separation ...

Two: the math blocks would be an intellectual. That is, conversely, because this discipline mobilizes deep emotions that math can be so agonizing. Because the strength of affects blocking intelligence. Nothing therefore serves to subject to "zero in math" intensive training. It is first necessary to listen to the students and let them express what is the source of their anxiety. This is the path chosen has Siety Anne.

Psychologies: Why were you interested in math?

Anne Siety: When I was a student, I gave little math, and I realized, listening to my students how math triggered pain and anguish. Why do we have such a passionate relationship with this renowned abstract matter? Start the subject at a dinner and he will raise a host of anecdotes and memories more or less "traumathisants". Students say zero, see their teacher write on the board as if it were easy, finding that their peers seem to understand and say they'll never make it. I then noticed that math referred them to very concrete anxieties related to their history.

How is this related?

The mathematics affect us very profoundly. Roots, landmarks, parentheses, problem statements tell us of identity, separation, loss. The famous "X" - the stranger whom the children are taught not to talk - as negative numbers pose many problems ... The geometry is difficult because it seems very real; students finally based on a real drawing, and are asked to get in, to in abstract, to perform a demonstration. Again, it comes to separation. Gradually, I became convinced that if a child has problems with math, it's not because he is not smart, but because something in him prevents him from accessing his thinking and to use its capabilities. It has something to do with its history. It is on this that we will work through the course and exercises.

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How to revise lessons to get good grades?

How to revise his lessons to get good grades?

This is a question that I get asked regularly. Whether parents or the children themselves!

So how do we do ?

Obviously this is a little different depending on the age of each ... But anyway "review to get good grades," it is to be especially demanding of oneself to the point of not letting parts of course not included not learned ...

Learning in order to obtain the best possible rating is a CHOICE!

This statement may surprise some and yet ...

Yes o n then made ​​the choice not to dead ends, to ask questions, to think about each course, every exercise, every remark of the teacher.

This request at work, perseverance, self-confidence, confidence in its ability to understand a course ... But most of all it takes aCOMMITMENT ...

Revise to get good grades is to call oneself, not to fly over the courts, but rather to learn well (remember and understand both) courses, to redo the exercises covered in class, practice by performing additional exercises to be taken in his book, in the annals or even on the net ...

How to make the easiest way possible?

• First, we must listen CAREFULLY course and explanations of the teacher.
• Then you have to read his course by asking all the questions that are sure to have understood the course. If there are points not included, so we must make the effort to seek help, to get to understand: Parents, older brother or sister who can help, buddies, girlfriends who understand (search among the good students of the class) ... Attention is looking for what they explain the points not included, not to copy their homework, their exercises ... another solution may be to go to her teacher himself, if we get along well with him, we respect him and he is willing to spend a little extra time to explain certain points with you again ... Finally, another equally valid option is the internet ... and yes, courses presented a little differently can be more detailed, more explicit, and it possible that you did not understand initially you appear clear and limpid presented differently ... But the goal is to really look at all understand and afford no deadlock!
• Finally, when the course is included, so you have to train, practice. .. We can, for example, repeat in class exercises seen, search on the internet exercises. You can again ask for advice to your teacher, he can give you a list of additional exercises to train you.

As I said at the beginning of this article, follow these tips to be more or less at face value, depending on the age of the child. But more these tips will be monitored regularly, it will represent less difficulty ...

Except for the revisions of the tank, these tips are actually to follow every day, every evening after his day of classes. Do not expect to earn much delay for one day decide to put it.

By following these tips daily (listening in class, read its evening course to understand and remember, and is doing the exercises required for the next class or train with new exercises) you will see your notes advance steadily and especially without the terrible feeling to spend all his time ...

Just make it a habit ...

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5 TIPS FOR THE GRADE

"It is nice, this blog, but I would like an article that really gives me the keys to success. The few methods that will make that magically, I will succeed my studies, "could you tell. Exactly, that's exactly what you expect: an article to show you what you can do to improve your results .. to the point of excellence and the head of your promotion. As if by magic.

Be aware of what you said.

At the beginning of the year, your teacher will tell you generally about what your average bear - if this is not the case, ask him. Some will note you especially on your final exam, others rather on a research project, others will make you write essays which account for 60% of the final mark your part. Know what your case. This will prevent you from working for hours and hours on something that ultimately has very little in your final grade, neglecting the main work.

Aim 20/20.

Stop telling yourself that it's impossible, that the maximum score is 14 in college, that's wrong. You can have a 20, if your work is truly exceptional.It is true that the French system hates excellent grades, but put your examiner to the wall with a good job so he will not have a choice and will give you the maximum score! Do not aim for 14 because it is the best score that you can have - even forget this idea.

Learn just after the course.

If you learn your lessons a week before the partial, or even a month before, that's a lost cause. You have to make records of revisions that evening, and know your course every weekend as if the exam was on Monday morning. This will save you from a very bad last month of classes!

Optimize your time.

It is useless to spend hours and hours reviewing a course. There are several techniques to avoid this by saving your course to learn during yourpockets of time , or for example by adopting the Pomodoro method I talk about in this article . You will be more effective, will have much more free time, and therefore can do whatever you need to do and never enough time. Some courses are also unnecessary; for example, such courses that I had, where the teacher will read the book that made you buy. Revise home on the book, rather than move to waste your time in class.

Learn faster.

For this, there are a lot of methods: rapid reading and efficient , the mind mapping , the note taking helpful ... I also advise you to attend classes to be sure to understand every last detail of what you learn without do additional research at home. Feel free to ask questions to the teachers, they are paid for it, after all - indeed, they will probably have given their express email address for that at the beginning of the semester!

These tips are easy to implement and allow you to have excellent grades while working much less than you could have imagined. So do not hesitate to implement them! If you have other tips and techniques to introduce the community to Succeed My studies or story ideas, I encourage you to post them in the "Comments" section below. Finally, if you want to share this article with your friends or make a small gesture to the site, do not forget to share it on your favorite social networks!

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To remember...

To remember, repeat, repeat and repeat!

 Repetition is the science of teaching!

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Verbal repetition, also called phonological loop (this is the voice you hear in your head), is to mentally repeat the same words to remember them. This is what you do when you learn a phone number. You repeat each digit until it is printed in your memory.

For a course or a definition is simple, just read or repeat several times until a paragraph that is printed in your memory. After, just turn the page to hide your notes and test your memory. If you get to repeat the head paragraph (without referring to your notes). Is that you have memorized the paragraph! After you go to the next paragraph to finish the page. Once the finished page, you mentally repeat before moving to the next.

With this method, most of my students learn about one typed page in 15 minutes. We must use this method on important passages to remember.

Do not learn with this method over 45 minutes to 1 hour. Either the concentration time of the brain. So about 4 pages per hour.

With this method, I learned a 50-page course in about 10 to 12:30 or 2 to 3 days to work 5 hours a day. Or a day if I are working 10h. Or a night if I only have 24 hours to learn a lesson. But I advise you to learn everything in one day or have a sleepless night. This is the act of God!

But often it take me less time because there are many repetitions in courses.

Working 2:30 in the morning and 2:30 in the afternoon, you will remain part of the afternoon and evening to relax!

There are obviously other more efficient storage methods. But this one is one of the easiest to learn. This is the most practiced method of memorization by students. One of my friends did not practice this method. She could get 15.2 average per semester.

The only constraint of this method is that it can become tedious if you do not make enough breaks. With this method, I advise you not to work more than 3 to 4 hours a day revising for every 45 minutes to 1 hour with breaks of at least 15 minutes. Otherwise, your revisions will become really annoying!

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how well organized?

Review Revisions: how well organized?

The exams are approaching, we must put the revisions! But how to organize?Advice and guide for effective review and be ready for the big day without too much stress.

"Make good reviews", "Make no deadlock", "Prepare well this issue" ... All this, teachers repeat it, but concretely, how?

Some are unable to get to work and constantly pushing the moment to attack. Others are panicking at the idea tons courses must be reviewed and do not know where to start. Others embark without method in marathon revisions and see their stress increase day by day.

To avoid falling into these pitfalls, follow our advice in order.

1 / Prepare in advance 

Before you jump in the revisions themselves, sometime before your course do not stop, start preparing all materials that you will need:

- Make a complete file over with notes, cards, exercises, and order your files. This work materials storage will help you order the knowledge in your head and put you in peace. If you pass the exams in June, do that during the Easter holidays or long weekends in early May. To date, there is still time to make such records, go buy the record that you miss or go surfing on educational sites.

- Obtain the course you might run
- Fill what is incomplete, unclear, poorly noted: ask friends their lecture notes or use manual - Gather with each course exercises, TP or TD subjects corresponding record ..
- Make cards or collect flags, abstracts, good quality schemes that relate to each course and allow you to understand and learn quickly.
- Select the Internet sites that can help you fill your holes, your shortcomings (if your paper media are good, you do not need it).

2 / Make a schedule

Courses are now finished, you have long journéees before you for review. But do not start in the study without having a program:
- Count the number of days you have to review not counting the day of the exam - Make a list of all courses (or subjects) to work, and that in all subjects
- Alternate materials. For Tray for example, do not do math for a whole day, then the story another day, then right ... But every day interleave a chapter of math, a history, a duty. ..: you will lose less time on each subject and you will keep more easily remember the different subjects. 
- Complete a table by spreading the lessons to review in your days starting with the oldest courses (study at the beginning of the year) and not ending the latest. Also put your dead ends (wrong courses or never learned) in the early revisions. Follow the progress of the program because we often need the concepts learned in the beginning to understand the following. To distribute topics to study each day:
- Put the most difficult subjects and subjects the morning or late afternoon
- If you do not pass a subject, interleave the course, exercises, text readings, etc. - Spend more time on the big coefficient disciplines.
- Make a precise schedule every hour or better, half hour by half hour, staring at the outset the time you start the morning and one to which you stop the evening (no later than 23 hours).

3 / The work during the days of revisions

There is more to do what you planned in your schedule.Again, we must organize:
- Get back to work at a fixed time in the morning, not too late if possible (to 8 pm or 9 pm) and stop the evening also at a fixed time (not too late). Make nights sleeping at least 7 hours.
- Choose a quiet place all conducive to work and do your revisions will not waste time moving your belongings from one place to another. If friends offer common revisions, make sure they have every intention of working. If you go together in a new place (country house), be sure to have comfortable conditions (sleep, food, office to you). Work side by side, but do your revisions each of your side and relax together during meals.
- Be sure to stay focused: putting you at your desk, turn off your cell phone to avoid being disturbed. Do not spend too much time on an issue because you can not focus effectively over 40 to 50 minutes. Every 50 minutes, so take a break of 5 minutes: you ventilate, get up, go drink a glass of water, listen to some music, and come home to work: your concentration will be good again. If you daydream, change the subject to avoid losing time.
- The day before, relax! Do not try to see everything in a few hours it is impossible and it will only serve you anxious. Relax, prepare your business for the next day and lie in reasonable time, neither too early nor too late. 

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