When You feel SLEEPY to the Max?!!

As most readers of my blog knows, I'm still in exam week and exam mood...
My next exam paper will be on coming Monday and Tuesday...*Sigh*

Well, back to today topic :)
What most people tend to do during exam week....
Let me tell you in case you don't realise or you are different from us...

We people tend to be sleepy whenever the exam week approach !

Do you agree with me?
*If you disagree with me, do leave down your opinion and suggest other symptom in comment form :)*

According to an article in Psychology Today, Americans sleep an average of seven hours per night. Most college students would laugh maniacally at that number though, for the majority of students get less than seven hours of sleep, especially during finals.

Therefore students easily feel sleepy although they thought that they have enough of sleeping hours.

Sleeping is more complicated than most people think. Rob Ernst, associate director for Clinical Services at University Health Service, said there are two types of sleep — slow wave sleep and REM sleep. Slow wave sleep takes up the majority of the sleep cycle and is a less deep sleep than REM sleep.

Though the body gets less REM sleep than slow-wave sleep, both types are necessary in order for the body to function.

“REM sleep is the stage of sleep that makes you feel refreshed when you wake up,” he said.

Ernst also said adults should get about eight hours of sleep per night. But he went on to say that “each individual person has unique needs that determine the amount of sleep they should get,” and stress, health and age all affect the number of hours of sleep needed.

This flexibility in how much sleep a person needs might be part of the reason why everyone falls asleep in that 2 p.m lecture. Those people who need more sleep might be trying to catch up. Armitage recommended an easy way of identifying sleep deprivation.

“Go into a dark room and sit in a comfortable chair. If you start to fall asleep, you are not getting enough sleep at night," Armitage said. “Boredom doesn’t make you sleepy; it just unmasks sleepiness because you’ve taken away the stimulation and social engagement that normally overrides tiredness."

Let me show you some pictures of people feel sleepy in class when exam approach.....

All the main character in above pictures are my Sunway-ian classmate...
We currently having our finals for CAT...


Okay, this is the picture of my Utar-ian friend *sleeping damn soundly* which just started her new semester. So relax man compared to us!

Okay, let me show you what human do when we over stress.....

*Speechless*

Here I provide some advice to cope with exam week...

• Eat well. Avoid high-carbohydrate or high-sugar foods because, although they can help you stay awake in the short term, what your body really needs to function well is protein.
• Exercise. The best thing would be to leave your studies for 45 minutes to an hour and do some aerobic exercise. Even a quick ten-minute break to take a walk around the campus will make you more focused and productive in your studying.
• Avoid all-nighters. It is not in your best interests to study all night because your body needs sleep in order to focus and concentrate. Go into an exam well rested and you will function at your best.
• Take quick breaks while studying. For example, taking ten minutes to talk to a friend who may go to another college, will refocus your mind. But don’t let that 10 minute conversation turn into an hour – that’s procrastination.
• Break your studying up into short blocks. If you are studying something like math or physics you can only concentrate well and effectively for about an hour. Take a break and do something completely different for five or ten minutes. On the other hand, if you are reading or studying for general comprehension, you can maintain studying for two or three hours. You will retain information more effectively if you study in three one-hour blocks spread out over two or three days rather than one three-hour block in one day.
• Minimize your time on e-mail, Facebook, IM, and all the other electronic communications you use. Being plugged-in 24-7 can be a huge distraction. Set up a dedicated period of time to check electronic media, say once every two hours.
• Avoid drugs. It is a common mistake to think that study drugs will enhance your ability to study and do well in an exam. Sharing someone else’s drugs prescribed for medical reasons such as ADD or ADHD can result in physical effects such as increased heartbeat, increased blood pressure, insomnia and an increased sense of anxiety. It’s never a good way to go into a final exam.
• Don’t compromise all your efforts with alcohol. Even lower levels of alcohol have a direct negative impact on learning and memory. It affects the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for taking in information and converting it to short term and long term memory.
• Talk to your professor if you are having problems completing tasks. Many students are reluctant to contact faculty, but professors are very willing to meet and provide feedback and guidance on how to accomplish tasks.
• Study with someone else from your class. You can share notes, quiz each other and use collaborative studying to learn the material. Obviously, if you’re doing an individual project like writing a paper this won’t work, but there’s a lot of learning that can happen more effectively in a small group or with another person from your class.