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
know 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 shorts, you feel rather rotten knowing
that you could have done better but didn’t. Shortcuts cut you shot. 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.
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