Successful Students
9. . . . don’t
cram for exams. Successful students know that divided period 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 then 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 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 watermelon 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.
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