How to avoid sleep while studying?

I can still remember when I was in college, studying during exams was like hell and what used to make it worst was my falling asleep.
Exams are near and to get good grades, we decide to study for long hours. We decide that the best time to study is the night time, but we cannot stop ourselves from sleeping while we are studying. (Especially in subjects like History, Science, Biology, etc.) These subjects are too boring to keep us awake. Then we feel the need to be awake to learn the subject. So, we are in a dilemma. Let me guide you how to avoid sleep by these simple tips.

1. Sit on a chair with flat back.
2. Drink tea or coffee, whichever you like before the same.
3. Change topic if not interesting.
4. Keep all the lights on of your room.
5. Study while walking. That is, take rounds of your room and keep studying.
6. Drink water so that you have to go to bathroom every now and then. Believe me it works.
7. Try to study hard topics at high energy levels of your body, when your mind is fresh read tough subject.
8. If possible study in groups, for students who live in hostels.
9. Try to read aloud, it helps when you make sounds. If you read in your mind, there are chances that you fall asleep sooner.
10. Don’t eat a lot before studying. This makes you feel sleepy.
11. Don't eat rice before starting studying. This, too, is going to make you doze.
12. Don't study with a fan blowing in your face as it will dry out your eyes and make you fall asleep.
13. Even after trying all these tips if you feel sleepy, and then go for short ‘Cat naps’ but not more than 60 minutes, otherwise you will end up wasting your important time of study.

How to concentrate while studying

To concentrate while studying is very difficult as experienced by most of us. In order to have full concentration the following points must be taken care off.
1. Avoid cell phone
Most important but most of us don’t pay attention to this, and while studying we often get calls or messages that leads to loss of concentration.
2. Focus
Before starting take few minutes to summarize a few objectives, gather what u need and think of general strategy of accomplishment.
3. Incentives
Give yourself some incentives after completion of task e.g., a chocolate.
4. Change topics
Changing the subject you study every one or two hours for variety.
5. Take regular scheduled breaks that suit you
It’s always good to take some rest after one and at most two hours of continuous study, as our mind too needs some rest.
6. Be here now
Every time your mind kind of distracts from your studies, say ‘be here now’. Believe me it works like magic.
7. Worry or think time
Keep a fix time when you want to think about something that keeps on disturbing you.


SQ3R method of reading
It has also been seen that loss of concentration during study can also be due to wrong reading methods, so I am giving you with best reading method you all can follow.
Survey! Question! Read! Recite! Review!
1. Before reading survey the chapter
The title, headings, subheadings, captions under pictures, charts, graphs or maps.
2. Question while surveying
Like what do I already know about this subject?
3. ReadReading includes all, quadruple strength i.e. seeing, saying, hearing, and writing.
4. Recite
It’s very imp to recite what you have read and therefore marks your progress.
5. Review.It helps in building our confidence, it always give us smile on our face when we review what we have read.


Hope this article too bring some smile on your face….!!!

"History" A snapshot

The word 'History' means the study of the past and is derived from the greek word 'historia'.The Indian history is divided into three parts -- Ancient, Medieval and Modern. Overall history is divided into two parts Pre and Proto History.


Pre history

The word Prehistory has been formed of two words - Pre (Latin) which means 'before' and Greek word 'historia' which means History. the term is often used to describe the period before written history. Paul Tournal originally coined the term Pré-historique in describing the findings he had made in the caves of southern France. It came into use in French in the 1830s to describe the time before writing, and was introduced into English by Daniel Wilson in 1851.Prehistory can be said to date back to the beginning of the universe itself, although the term is most often used to describe periods when there was life on Earth; dinosaurs can be described as prehistoric animals and cavemen are described as prehistoric people.

Proto history


Protohistory refers to a period between prehistory and history, during which a culture or civilization has not yet developed writing, but other cultures have already noted its istence in their own writings. For example, in Europe, the Celts and the Germanic tribes may be considered to have been protohistoric when they began appearing in Greek and Roman texts.Protohistoric may also refer to the transition period between the advent of literacy in a society and the writings of the first historians. The preservation of oral traditions may complicate matters as these can provide a secondary historical source for even earlier events. Colonial sites involving a literate group and a non-literate group, are also studied as protohistoric situations.

"Synthetic Genomics"

World is changing so fast that it is becoming very difficult to get in pace with it.
Now people just don't see things as they are,but as they might be.Have you heard of something called as 'Synthetic Genomics',if not then please do search for it.Its science with a little twist in it.
A rebel scientist Dr. Craig Vecter who created a storm over a decade ago by first trying to patent a human gene (but failed as it was not allowed by law),and then decoding the entire human genome, in competition with the publicily funded organizations doing the same.Now Dr. Craig and colleagues have made scientific history by chemically synthesizing the total genetic material ( or genome)of a microbe called M.mycoides, and introduced it into the cell of another microbe, M.capricolum in a manner that tha transplanted synthetic genome of mycoides is given total and sole control of the host capricolum cell.

Now the question in your mind will be, what does this actually mean? Did they create artificial life?

Well, they synthesized the genome of mycoides and transplanted it into the living cell of capricolum in a manner that the genome of the latter was disabled. Some have called it 'rebooting' the genetic software of one organism into another organism, akin to talking a computer operating the Microsoft software and rebooting it with Linux.

What bodes for the future?
If one can synthesize genomics in the lab, introduce them into recipient cells and "express" their protein products, why not produce biofuels, maybe ask microbes to produce food by photosynthesis or whatever?

Here comes the twist, some worry whether such chemical creations of genome would lead to Frankensteinism- wherein a person creates a destructive agency that goes out of control, ruining the person himself.well right now, we are shooting in the dark as to what the long term benefits and long term risks will be...

Lastly to give it a touch of humour i would say it is quite possible that some day Dr Craig Vecter might become the "Microsoft of synthetic biology".