What Mini Musts can help my Studies?

“Mini-musts” is a term used to define the habits that someone performs every single day. They’re usually very small habits, that almost seem insignificant and take up a short amount of time. But, over a period of time, they have a huge impact on your performance overall.

Table of Content:

• What are Mini Musts?
• How do Mini Musts help?

What are Mini Musts?

If you want to excel in you finals, it is vital that you employ a practise such as this. It won’t be fun and the results won’t show in the short term, but if you continue with these every day, you’ll see amazing changes in a few months.

Here are a few examples of mini musts:

1. Reading a news article every day, and trying to observe techniques used by writers. (for English Language Analysis)
2. Do 5 multi-choice questions from a VCAA exam every single day and correct them.
3. Watch just one KIS Academics video every day. This will allow you to learn an entire subject in a short period of time.

How do Mini Musts help?

1. They add up

Mini musts are small, but they add up, and by the end of the month (or maybe even week), you find out you've accomplished more than you thought you did!

It is a non-stressful way to maintain consistency in your studies.

2. Building a Routine

They help you build some consistency in your study routine, which is very important especially in Year 12. Having a sustainable study routine that you can stick with means injecting some fun things to do in-between studying, which is where mini musts come in!

Mini musts help to break up the monotony of just doing practice papers, while still ensuring that you are learning something.

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