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. Yet, so many students fail
to learn this lesson and end up repeating 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 have done better but didn’t. 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!!! <3
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