Effective ways to study

Sometime you can find that the brain is blocking the knowledge from entering. This happens when you are not effective, here are some tips:
1. Know your best time in a day - if you can learn well in the morning, then take the opportunity to study in the morning. When the exam is near, revising in the best time is very important to make sure that you are really revising.
2. Go for some entertainments or sports - this may sound ridiculous, but only through this you can refresh your mind, our brain always need some time to close study mode. Play some games, watch some movies, shopping and so on, do these when you feel that the knowledge is not coming in.
3. Group study - the members of the group must be fully aiming for study, not for chit chatting, ask questions within the group and discuss the answer together, this will improve your awareness of many other issues.
4. Do questions - if you feel that after some time, you are not feeling like studying, then go for past year papers or exam kit, do a number of questions. This is the releasing of "death knowledge" inside your brain and making it "live", this is a good practice and after a while you will get back to book again.
5. Study plan - if you are not self-motivated to study, make a timetable of when to study and follow it strictly, this is a self-coercive-motivation.
6. Follow-up - if you attend classes, after each of the class, read again what you just learnt in class, this is the easiest and most effective way of learning as by doing so, the knowledge will stick in your mind for a long time.
7. Making your notes - reading the book may be boring, so it is good to make notes at the same time of studying, at least you are doing something while reading. Don't copy the sentences from the book, try to make your own sentence which might replace one paragraph in the book.
8. Enough of sleep - this is very important to keep your brain shut up from saying "I don't want to learn, I want to rest".
9. Study for a short time per day is better than studying a long time in one day of a week.
10. Focus - keep focus while you are studying, do not think of anything else, for example when you are studying F7, don't think about "how an agency relationship is formed" or "what to eat later", your mind should only has F7, nothing else.

There are other ways that people will use while studying but the above are what I suggest from my experience so far, these changed my life :)