Saturday, 25 January 2014

Avoiding The End-Of-The-Semester Cram Session

By Hedrick Lepsch


While you are studying at a Colorado Springs college campus, you probably have encountered some stresses. Being a student can indeed be quite stressful. But you do not have to weather the stresses alone or without help. There are many, many different tips and tricks available for students so their academic life can be made easier.

Student, whether they are studying accounting in Colorado Springs or healthcare, can all fall for this trap of ineffectiveness by cramming for their tests and exams the week or even night before the test day. Not only is this form of "study" ineffective for school work, it can also be detrimental for a person's future career or job.

By cramming, a student is basically admitting to themselves that they never learned the material in the right way to begin with. By never learning the material, even if they score well on the exam, these students are setting themselves up for failure in their future careers by not knowing the principles and information that could have lead them towards success.

To avoid cramming, there are several steps that a student in Colorado Springs can take in order to learn the material the right way first, escaping the need for cramming altogether. The first step to avoiding cramming for exams is to acknowledge that the learning process will take effort and time, and there is no way around this solemn fact.

It was just part of the journey. This is the way that a successful individual thinks and when you have failed several times with a product, it is what can keep you motivated to keep going, ultimately promoting innovation in your work.

The answer to this question lies in discovering the purpose of taking notes. Yes, you take notes so that you can look back on them later to help you study for the test. But taking notes also helps you to actively engage with the lecture. If you're taking notes, then you are demonstrating to yourself that you are paying attention to the lecture.

Taking notes also helps you to remember what was covered in the lecture. Many people are visual learners, so to have some of the key concepts from the lecture written down can be very helpful. It is almost as if writing down key concepts in the lecture helps you to keep the concepts written down in your head. Note taking may not seem like it's doing very much for you, but it is actually helping you retain the information much more efficiently.

A student will have to plan out when they will hold these intermittent study seasons throughout the semester according to their schedules and available time, but traditionally spacing the reviews out between two weeks has proven helpful for some. The intermittent review of past material will not only further engrain the material into the mentalities of the student, but it will likewise provide the foundation to build current and future information upon.

Having the base principles mastered will provide the base upon which additional material can be built. Over the course of a semester, information has a way of building off previously covered sections, and if a student has mastered these, then the need for cramming at the end of the semester is all but eliminated.




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