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 that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is
better than massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts know 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 exams 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 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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