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Pretty soon the semester will be winding down – or winding up, depending on how much work you have left. Whichever the case, time starts to be a factor. And as the clock ticks down, it’s important to manage your time with maximum efficiency. You’ll find yourself with time to spare (or, at least, not crazy-rushed), if you follow our time-saving tips for the last month of the semester:
每逢期末来临之际，你是自信满满还是诚惶诚恐？不管你准备的是好是坏，时间都是至关重要的因素。而正因为每当这个时候时间总会显得不够用，管理时间也就成为最有效的良药。你会发现如果你能一个学期最后一个月里遵循以下的省时提示，你的时间还是可以绰绰有余的，起码不至于忙得疯狂。
Don’t blow off classes.
没有理由逃课
You might have thought that paring down your classroom attendance was a good time-saving idea. It’s not. Making up the class you missed – getting the notes, copying the notes, puzzling out the notes, not really understanding the notes – takes three times as long as it would have to attend the class in the first place. So keep up your perfect (or at least more-or-less regular) attendance record.
你可能觉得最后时刻与其准时上课不如自己复习来的有效果，那你可以就大错特错了。如果你没有去上课，一系列问题会接踵而至，借来笔记、抄写笔记、试图解读知识点、不能理解知识点，然后再花上课堂三倍的时间去解决这些问题。如果从开始你就去上课了，这些问题也就不复存在了。所以保持你的全勤记录吧（或者起码是个常常出勤的记录）。
Plan to do each task once.
一次搞定
Many students unwittingly set up double the work: recording the lectures so that they can listen to them again at home, taking lecture notes with the idea of recopying them later, giving the reading a “once over lightly” with the plan to reread before the final – all of these are horribly inefficient ways to get done what you need to do. Better idea? Plan to do the job well the first time. You’ll be amazed how much time you can save if you don’t set out to do each task twice.
许多学生有“反复”学习的习惯：录制课堂音频以便回家再听、草草做笔记并决定课后再抄一遍、扫描式阅读并想着反正要再读一遍等等。所有这些糟糕低效的学习方法都会影响你的学习进度。更好的办法？第一次的时候就认真完成。不信就试试看，你自己都会惊讶“一次成型”可以给你省多少时间。
The one exception to this tip comes when writing a term paper: here you’ll want to plan multiple drafts, especially if the term- or research paper counts 40-percent of your grade.
不过有一种情况例外——如果你需要写学期论文，最好在确定前多打几份草稿，特别是这份论文占到总成绩的40%以上的时候。
Get things organized.
有条不紊
Every class has lots of paperwork that becomes increasingly important at the end of the semester: syllabi, class notes, handouts, graded work – all of these can play important, and interrelated, roles as the semester comes to its end. Make sure all your materials are neatly organized – and easily accessible – as you begin to write your term papers and/or study for the final. You can waste a lot of time looking for some document that you’re hell-bent on finding, no matter what.
很多课程可能都是越临近期末，纸张资料就越重要：教学大纲、课堂笔记、讲义、分级功课。所有这些在期末都可能起到重要的相关角色。确保你所有的资料和材料井然有序，以方便你复习或写论文随时查找。否则的话，你可能在找某个关键材料的时候浪费大量时间。
If you’re writing a research paper make sure to keep perfect citations (including page numbers) for sources you consult, print or electronic. An electronic tool, such as Endnote, Refworks, Zotero, or Wizfolio, can be a real timesaver (check with your library to see if any are free to students).
如果你需要写调查研究论文，记得以打印或者电子形式保存好你引用的所有数据，甚至包括其在书上的页码。诸如Endnote、Refworks、Zotero或Wizfolio等软件可以帮你大量节省论文编辑时间。你可以去你们的图书馆或学校学生网站上咨询是否提供下载学生免费版本。
Consider study groups.
学习小组
If you have a large body of material to master you could benefit from dividing it up among members of a study group. Just be sure you and your group have a clear game plan on how to divide up the work. If you find you’re spending more time studying your study partners than going over the material, you’ve created a huge time-waster (though, no doubt, one more enjoyable than studying).
如果你有一大摞你觉得有用的材料，你可以把他们分发给学习小组的其他成员共同学习。前提是你的学习小组有明确的共同目标和明确的分工安排。如果你发现你对学习伙伴个人的兴趣远大于学习，无疑你是在浪费时间了，虽然你可能很享受这时的“学习时光”。
Close up the windows.
两耳不闻窗外事
One of the things that slows studying down most is interrupting work time with glances at more entertaining media activities (e.g., incessantly checking your facebook page, IM-ing your friend every 18 seconds, and, for good measure, checking the World Series score). Doing this, you end up covering fifteen minutes worth of material in a one-hour “study” session. Solution? Don’t open any additional windows or apps for as long as you’re planted at your study space. If you tend to take lots of mini study breaks, limit the excursions to ten-minutes for each half-an-hour of studying. That guarantees only a one-third inefficiency.
没什么比一心二用更拖学习的后腿了。那些层出不穷的娱乐活动——翻翻社交网站、给好朋友发个消息、甚至查查球赛比分，早就让你“身在曹营心在汉”。这么做的结果就是你耗费了1个多小时得到了15分钟成果的学习效率。解决方法？课桌前清除一切杂念和干扰源。即使你打算中途休息下，给自己规定好休息时间长度，好比一个半小时的学习后休息10分钟然后继续学习。
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