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 specialist agree on, it is that distributed 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 hours straight on
Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and
rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many
students fail to learn this lesson 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 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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