Successful Students
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9….. don’t cram for exams. Successful
students know that divided periods of study are more effective that cram
sessions, and they practice it.
If there is one thing that study
skills specialist agree on, it is that distributed study is better that 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 session for
Friday’s exam that studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short,
concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding that
wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fail to
learn this lesson and 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 rotter 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 a 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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