Describe a time when you gave advice to someone

If I have to talk about a time I gave someone advice, I would definitely like to tell you about helping one of my friends before an important exam.

Personally, I think it was quite meaningful because she was studying extremely hard, but the way she was studying was actually making things worse.

It happened last year, just a few days before our final exams.

She told me she was planning to stay up until two or three in the morning every night because she still had a huge amount to revise.

At first, I didn’t want to interfere because everyone has their own way of studying.

But she looked exhausted and told me she could barely remember what she’d studied the night before.

So I suggested that she stop trying to cover everything at once.

Instead, I told her to identify the most important topics, focus properly on those and get enough sleep.

I also suggested putting her phone in another room because she kept checking messages while studying.

At first, she wasn’t convinced.

She said going to bed early would make her feel guilty because everyone else was still studying.

But she eventually followed my advice for one night.

The next day, she told me she’d been able to concentrate much better and actually remembered more.

I was really glad because my advice hadn’t magically solved her exam stress, but it had helped her look at the problem from a different perspective.