Fifteen Minutes To A Higher Grade Point Average

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Adult students return to college with well defined goals, significant life experience, and maturity. In those areas they are generally ahead of their younger counterparts.

However, many adult students must overcome some challenges their younger counterparts never face.

Ask any adult student and he or she will tell you that it can be difficult to balance the demands of family, career, and education. Even online degree programs, which enable students to work anywhere they wish and set their own work schedules, require timely completion of assignments. And, students who find themselves continually behind are seldom successful.

Obviously, self-discipline and the ability to manage time, two things important to all students, are even more critical to adults juggling multiple responsibilities.

Interestingly, even the most accomplished people often overlook a very simple technique that is very simple but can yield great results.

Unfortunately, there is no way to add days or hours to your week, but you can find extra hours, without much trouble, to work on your studies. All you have to do is think about fifteen minute "dead" periods during your week. If you can identify two fifteen minute periods a day during which you can study, you will have added three and a half hours a week to your study time.

What can you get done in just fifteen minutes? The list may be longer than you first imagine. You can email a question to a professor or classmate. You can find websites with information related to your readings or the topic of an upcoming paper. You can do some highlighting in one of your texts. Or, you can review and/or revise a few pages of notes. See the possibilities?

Fifteen minutes can be a significant amount of time; enough time to get something accomplished. And, for most people, it is not too difficult to find at least two fifteen minute blocks of time daily. How about getting up just fifteen minutes earlier every day and spending that time doing schoolwork? What about spending fifteen minutes at your office before going home at the end of your workday? Perhaps you could read while eating breakfast or lunch.

One student I know spends fifteen minutes on her assignments whenever she returns to her home. You might laugh, but it's been two years since she's had a grade of any kind below an "A", and that was a B+ on a quiz.

Everyone, no matter how busy, can find two fifteen minute periods a day to add to their regularly scheduled study time. And, the additional hours those minutes add up to can make a big difference in a student's level of success.

About the Author:
Career educator Daniel Kane has developed more than a dozen educational websites. Among them are a site on the top ten online colleges, and a site on online education.
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