Successful Students 9
, 9. . . do 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 even 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 produce any real
worthwhile results. Alson’t cram for exams. Successful students know that
divided periods of study are more effective 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 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 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
accountable opportunities.
CHOOSE THE
RIGHT!
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