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 specialist agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed,
late-night, last-ditch effort known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember
more and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night session for
Friday’s exam than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short,
concentrated preparatory efforts are more effective 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. When
you cram, you are taking a short cut, and short cuts never produce any real
worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you fell rather rotten
knowing that you could have done better but didn’t. Shortcut cut you short. You
can’t plant watermelons seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It
takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make high scores
the next day is like planning watermelon seeds and expecting them to harvest
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.
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