Successful Students 9
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 specialists agree on, it is that
distributed study is better than messed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as
cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying
in four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory
efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last
moments marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up
repeating it 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. Make a high score the next day is like planning watermelon
seeds. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming
accountability opportunities.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT
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