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, 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 Fridays 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 [reduce 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 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 from 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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