Successful Students
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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, last-ditch efforts know as cramming. You’ll
learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in 4, one
hour-a-night sessions for Friday’s exam than studying for 4 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 does 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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