Successful student
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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 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.
Choose the Right!!!!
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