It’s not a waste of time. After a few years, you don’t have to, unless you want to.

After school, when your minds still fresh with the lessons, get on with the studying. Don’t put it off for later since there’d be lots of distractions for you. That’s what I tell my daughter. If she want to play or watch TV or surf the net, study first, get her homeworks done first. It helps to allot a specific amount of time daily just for studying. Make yourself comfortable. If you’re the type who could take it all in with music blaring, go ahead. Go somewhere where you’re relaxed. Studying is for your own good, sweetie. Never mind the grades (though as a parent myself it’s heartening to know your child does well in school), what’s more important is you take in the knowledge.

Good luck!

Instead study for 20-30 minutes at a time. Take a 5-7 minute break and then start again.

Practice test taking. In other words, answer questions on paper. If your book has chapter tests do them. If you have problems that the teacher did not assign, do them. If you have questions anywhere in the book on the material you are studying, answer them.

Then check your own work by looking back at the text and finding the correct answer. After three hours of this, you will know the material inside and out.

hope it helped

Then prioritize the list by numbering them in the order that they NEED to be done in.

Then just concentrate on the Highest Priority item(s) and stick with it until you’re done.

The motivation is really simply your conviction to get each one done in the order you’ve assigned.

Once you get part way down your list, then it may be prudent to look them over and re-prioritze your list.

Hope this helps.