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 study skills specialist agree on, it is that distributed is better
than massed, late night, last ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn
more, remember more, and earn higher grade by studying in 4, 1 hour a night
sessions for Friday’s exam than studying for 4 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’re taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real
worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten
knowing that you could’ve 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 is like planting watermelon seeds and expecting
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.
Choose The Right!!
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