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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