Successful Students #09
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 more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four,
one hour a-night sessions for Friday’s exam 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, 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 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 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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