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 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 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 fall 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 bit didn’t. Shortcuts cut you short.
You can’t plan watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It
takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting yo make a high score
the next day is like planting 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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