| If you oversleep and miss a class, check the course schedule to see if there is a later class that day by the same prof in that subject. I did that a few times. While your own class may be a little bit behind or ahead of the professor's later class, you still will get most of the info you missed by oversleeping.
A wise biology professor told us that for every hour of lecture, you have to study 2 hours in order to achieve an A. It's just a good rule of thumb.
I find I do procrastinate, but I also want As, so once when I was only taking one class, I procrastinated until 4 days or so before a test, and then 'crammed' for 12 hours a day. Of course, I was only taking that one course, and it was math and that is a hard subject for me. You have to experiment to find out how long you actually need to study in order to make that A. You also have to experiment to find out the best way you study. For me, I have to draw pictures or flowcharts of what a particular paragraph in the textbook is saying. I can't tell you the number of times a picture I had created which I had committed to memory allowed me to pick the correct answer on a test, even on those multiple-choice tests with 2 possible choices that are so very similar. Mneumonics also work very well for me. |