Successful
Students
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 fall to learn
this session and end up repeating it all over again until it becomes a wasteful
habit. Not too clever, hah? 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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