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 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 on Friday’s exam than studying for four 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 seeds 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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