Successful
Students
9
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 Fridays’ exam than studying for
four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated prepatory efforts
are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment
marathon. 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 higher score the
next day is like planting watermelons 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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