Successful
students
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9. Don’t cram for exams. Successful students know how to divide
of study are more effective and they practice it.
If there is one thing that study
skills specialists agree on, it is that distribution study is better than
massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more,
remember more, earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night
sessions on 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 produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when
you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could've done better,
but didn't Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon seed 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 a 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 an upcoming accountability opportunities.
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