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 specialist agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed,
late-night, last-ditch effort 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 exam than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short,
concentrated preparatory efforts are more effective and rewarding than
wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fall to
learn this session and end up repeating it all over again until it becomes a
wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?
When you cram, you are taking a short
cut, and short cuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you
take shortcuts, you fell rather rotten knowing that you could have done better
but didn't Shortcut cut you short. You can’t plant watermelons seeds and
harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or
project and expecting to make high scores the next day is like planning
watermelon seeds and expecting them to harvest 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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