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Online Resources to Help You Through Your Finals

BYAMBER SIMPKINS Staff Writer

It is officially the end of the year, which means finals are approaching. Luckily, there are many websites and apps that can help you ace your upcoming finals. The following websites and apps can help you with your finals in many ways from studying for tests to helping you with your final papers.

Quizlet

Quizlet will become your best friend while you are studying for your finals. Quizlet offers many ways to study for your upcoming tests, with many study sets to choose from that pertain to the subject you need to study. One way to study with Quizlet is to use the flashcard method offered on this site, which helps you with memorization of terms or events. After you think you have the terms memorized you can do mock tests to make sure you know the information before your final.

Grammarly

Grammarly is a great website to use if you have any upcoming final papers. This website helps you make sure all of your grammar on your paper is correct. The website may even make suggestions to make the content of your paper sound more put together. This website also offers a plagiarism checker so that you can avoid the risk of accidentally plagiarizing on your paper.

Distraction-Free Apps

There are several apps that help you create a distraction-free environment to study for your exams. A very popular app is called Forest. You can set a timer with the intention of not using your phone while it is going, and the app grows a tree while you are studying. The tree dies if you touch your phone and makes you start over. This provides motivation to keep you focused. You can also track your productivity with this app as well. This app does cost money, but there is a very similar free app called Plantie. You can also download apps that block distractions on your phone for a set amount of time. For example, you could set an app to block you from using any social media or entertainment apps until the time you set to study is over. There is a free app called Freedom that does this. These apps are great for people that struggle with studying because they get easily distracted.

Citation Machine

This app can be a life saver if you have any upcoming research papers. This app cites information for you in any format you choose. You can simply put in the website link or title to any media source and the website will generate the correct citation information for you. The website will also list all of the links you cited in alphabetical order for you when you go to the list of all your citations you have used.

Finals week can be a very stressful time, which is why extra resources are very helpful. These online resources offer many aids to guide your studying or writing for your finals. Hopefully these resources help you ace all of your finals!