CA Daily Study Update Group

The hack is to make your daily accountibilty sheets :- Why do you need accountibilty sheets? It will make you analyse where your time is spent on a particular and how you can stop time waste in the areas where you actually spent time uselessly. It will improve your productivity and hold you accountable so that you don't procrastinate further. So , let me elaborate what is a accountibilty sheets. It is a kind of sheet where you write your daily goals and your activity status. For eg: I'm sleeping from 1-7 am. Dinner from 9 9:15 pm, etc. How to make an accountibilty sheet ? Take a personal diary. It will barely cost you Rs 50. Write the date on the top of the page. For me it's WHATEVER IT TAKES : Make three parts 6/6/6 hours roughly. First 6 hr slot - do minimum 5 hrs study and 1 hr for miscellaneous. Second 6 hr slot - do 4.5 hrs study and take a small 15-30 mins Nap at the end of this slot. Third 6 hr slot - do 4.5 hrs study and spend 15 minutes each in analysing your daily activity and goal setting respectively. At the end it is just a schematic idea and completing your daily targets should be the main aim. Write down the learning that you made on the particular day. It can logically or moral boosting learning. Calculate the no. of hours you studied and this will give your mind a dopamine kick to achieve more and better on the next day. Set targets for the next day and go to sleep with the enthusiasm of doing better on the next day. Write down your accountibilty as soon as you complete a task or shift to another task. It barely takes 15-20 sec to do this. This would probably save your day from being wasted. Bonus tip:- mark your productive time with two highlighters. One should be for coaching/lectures and another should be for self study. In this way you can differentiate between learning and application of concepts in your preparation phase of exam. I hope this answer will add some value in your life. Writing this on paper is advisable rather than digital documentation. Since it will waste a lot of time in writing down the accountibilty notes digitally. Pen paper is the best way of maintaining it. Making daily accountibilty sheets would overall help you improve your exam preparation. Investing 15-20 mins daily (compounding/summation of those small 15-20 sec).