Successful Students
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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 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 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
produced 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 pant 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 watermelons 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. Give yourself plenty of days and
weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!!
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