Successful students
9
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, last-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 in for four hours straight
on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efferent
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 talking the
shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when
you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing knowing that you could have
done better but didn’t. Shortcut 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 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 accountable opportunities.
Choose the right!!!
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