Successful Students
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9. …don’t cram for exams. Successful students
know that divided periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and
they practice it.
If there is one thing
that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributive study is better
than massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn
more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-
night sessions for Friday’s exam than studying for four hours straight on Thursday
night. Short, concentrated preparatory effects are more efficient and rewarding
than wasteful inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fail to
learn this and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a
wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?
When you cram, you are
taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also,
when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have
done better, but didn’t. Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon
seed and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a
test or project and expecting to make a high score the next day is like
planting watermelon seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelon the
next day. Plus, cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically,
so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and
weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!
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