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 session’s, and they practice it.
If there is one
thing that study skills specialist agree on, it is that distributed study is
better than massed, last-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 seed 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 to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!
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