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 and earn a
higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night 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 shortcuts, you fell 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 watermelon the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test
or project and expecting to make a higher 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
eve do it. Plan ahead, prepare a head. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks
to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT
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