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 study 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 in four, one
hour-a-night session for Friday’s exams 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 a 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 harvest 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 watermelons 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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