-Don't do your revisions in a comfortable place. Go somewhere with good, strong lighting, a non-squishy chair, and a table or desk. Sit up while you study, and change positions now and then.
-Eat a healthy snack. Apples are a good food to help you keep your blood sugar stable so you can stay awake (a lot of people say they will wake you up better than caffeine.)
-Take the occasional break. Your brain needs to rest if you want to study hard for a long time AND do well on your exam. Schedule out your time so you can take a break—For example— study for 45 minutes, break for 15, and so forth. Set the alarm on your cell phone so you don’t forget (or if you’re afraid you’ll fall asleep). Watch a TV show, talk to a friend, read a book, or listen to some music—but nothing school related at all!
-Drink a lot of water. Water is good for staying up when you’re studying. Dehydration can make you sleepy, so keeping your body hydrated will stave off those symptoms. If you are really sleepy, drink a lot of water to make sure you stay up—if you have to get up to go to the bathroom, it will definitely keep you awake.
-Coke would probably give you a slight boost and then you would crash. Caffeine takes more water to process than the soda provides. So it takes extra water from our bodies which dehydrates us. When we are dehydrated we feel tired. If you were even slightly dehydrated before it is compounded. When properly hydrated this is not noticeable. Drink at least a glass of water for every 8 ounces of soda to offset this.
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Coca cola... jesus h christ,
If you want caffeine and don't drink coffee, coke is pointless. You need JOLT or Red Bull or some other stuff.
But even then, caffeine won't do you any good in terms of studying.
Revision between now and Wednesday will be pointless, if you don't get a minimum of 6 hours sleep a night. The stuff that goes into your head, even in the short term, just won't be available on Wednesday, unless your sleeping mind has had some time to file it, as it were.
All night studying is best used for subjects like mathematics, where what you're memorising (formulae or methods) is key to solving the questions that will come up. If you've got the formula, you can probably do the question.
It's useless for subjects like LAW, where it's vital to remember lots of details for a particular question.
Coke would help keep you awake as well as healthy snacks. Anything heavy and usually hot would just make you sleepy. Hot green tea with a lot of sugar is what keeps me up. The warm liquid always wakes up my senses. Just like cold ice water would help as well. Its healthier than coke but I don't know your diet and if you're health conscious or not. If you're sleep deprived that's what's going to affect your revision, not what you drink to stay awake.
Sigh. I'm in the same boat. 2 law papers due on Thursday :S And a damn court appearance.
Anyway, green tea can be caffeinated, check the box. That's what I'm on right now. It isn't as effective as coffee, but it does help. Ever consider berocca/nodoze/etc? Might be worth it if you need some serious awake-time.
Sleep, farewell thy friend. :S
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I would say some type of tea would be the best thing to use to stay awake, but feel normal at the same time. If you really need to wake up and don't care about being hyper then I would go for a redline.
If you get really hopped up on sugar, it might make you a little bit cloudy, so keep that in mind...But if you're used to it then you probably won't even notice.Speed will keep you awake but not sure how it will affect your work. Ritalin will keep you more focused with your work but it doesn't have any awakening effects. I wouldn't mix the two though. If you were to do it, take 2 hrs naps and focus on your work.
The brain works best with short breaks. It processes problems when they aren't directly in front of you. We also do the same when we sleep. Eat small snacks and stuff with sugar since that stimulates brain cells.Coca-Cola is good. I personally prefer Pepsi. Anyway there's all sorts of wonderful aromatic components to cola and people love to blithely ignore them and talk only about the sugar and the pH, but lemon oil and orange oil and vanilla -- what's not to love about that?!
I'd say drink Coke but try to have it with a snack if possible. Some potato chips, that's easy.meth will keep you awake, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Try 5 hour energy, and then have another the morning before the test
Tyt, are you yr13 and doing the retake
Because my real one is quite a while away
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