Successful Students
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 is that distributed
study is better than massed, late night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming.
You’ll learn better, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying for one
hour a night, sessions for Friday’s exam. 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 until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever,
huh?
When you cram, you
can take a short cut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results.
Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rotten for not knowing that you could
have done better but didn’t Short cuts cut you short. You don’t plant a
watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time.
Cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically, so why even do
it? Plan ahead, prepare yourself. Give yourself plenty of day and weeks to prepare
for upcoming accountability opportunities.
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