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 for 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 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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