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 is that distributed study is better than
massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts know as cramming. You’ll learn more,
remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night
sessions 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, 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 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 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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