Successful students
9
9.
. . . . Don’t cram on exams. Successful students know that divided periods of
study are more effective than cram session, and they practice it.
If
there is one thing that study skills specialist agree on, it is that disturbed
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 produce any real
worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten
knowing that you could have done it 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 attest 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 accountability opportunities.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!
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