After at least twelve years of education, in a university, the students will be given the liberty to set up their own class schedule. However, with the given privilege of freedom and independence, managing your time might become difficult. You might feel that you are overburdened with a hefty amount of course work due, attending classes might become difficult or even taking out time for hangouts with friends and family may become challenging. Thus, it is vital that at the very beginning of the semester, one learns to manage the time effectively. 

1. Create A Schedule And A Time Table

To stay organized, one can use various tools such as planners, time tables, calendars, and setting up reminders on your phone. The key is to manage your time effectively by setting up a schedule. You can also make daily To-do checklist by writing down all your tasks that you have to perform in a day, ticking off each point once completed. These methods of prioritizing your time effectively, which will allow you to run everything systematically and help you save time as well.  

2. Avoid All Distractions And Procrastination

With the rising world of technology and social networking sites such as Twitter, Tumblr, Face book, Instagram, etc., one can easily lose track of time while scrolling on their phone. You may feel that by checking out, your social media account every now and then, for just five minutes won’t do any harm to you. The reality is that you are using your time unwisely and easily getting distracted. Try to limit the time that you spend on your phone because it is a distraction. The time that you waste while checking out your social media accounts can be utilized somewhere else, maybe for completing an assignment! Moreover, avoid procrastination; try concentrating on your work or the task that you have to perform. If you feel that you are musing your time by procrastinating, try studying in a group! 

3. Try Sticking To One Routine

University life is not just about completing assignments and attending lectures, one has to maintain a social life by hanging out with friends, give time to their family, get a good night’s sleep, perhaps go to the gym or just relax and sit at home. To manage all this in your day, set a working routine for the day. You may become doubtful that how you can manage everything in a day, setting up a routine may minimize your uncertainty. From the very first day when you are making your schedule, register your classes according to the routine you want to set up. For example, In the morning you might want to go to the gym, so attend your classes in the afternoon, finish you assignments in the evening; this way you’ll be free, and you’ll have the rest of the night to relax with your friends and family. Setting up a routine will help you organize your whole day in your university life.  

4. Prioritize Your Tasks

During the duration of your course, you may be given an assignment that is due in two weeks. Rather than getting on with your work, you decide to wait till the last day to complete the given task. Leaving your work till the very last moment won’t help you manage your time, in fact, you may have other assignments due so tackling more than one task at a time might become difficult for you to handle. Try performing each task in its given time; don’t wait for days considering that you still have time to finish it. Furthermore, students can also use different online coursework help services if they doubt that their quality of work is affected due to the burden of assignments. Therefore, if you wait till the last hour to study for a test or finish a research paper, the quality of your work may also impact. 

5. Know Yourself

You should be well aware of your routine, so don’t try to make things difficult or challenging for yourself. When you’re given the freedom to set up your own time table, try making your schedule in a way that you know can be managed. For example, if you know that you’re not a morning person, try not to keep classes at 8 am. Because if you miss your class, you will have to take time out of your routine to make up for that missed class so technically you are wasting your time so be self-aware of yourself that through what ways can you manage time effectively.  

Just note down these five management strategies in your notebook and enhance your managerial skills by implicating the suggested tactics.