<p>bump…!</p>
<p>I would seriously consider saving the drinking and partying for weekends only. Leave the week for getting your **** done.</p>
<p>Cramming does work, especially if you already have the questions for an essay test.</p>
<p>I love this. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Don’t hold back.</p>
<p>(But stay responsible.)</p>
<p>What works for someone may not work for you.</p>
<p>Cramming isn’t for everyone! I can’t cram it took me a whole first year to learn this. I suck at it. It might be because I don’t know how but honestly its to stressful to cram. Studying everyday for a two hour per class is pretty good and increasing that amount about two weeks before test time works out good for me. </p>
<p>I also read in another post about double major not being good…no not always the case. It honestly depends on what your future career is. I want to go into cell biology research. So I’m doing both a biology and chemistry major. Without chemistry I would be missing a lot of the fundamentals of biology.</p>
<p>I agree that you should study an hour or two per class every day. Stay current with the material. </p>
<p>Personally, cramming works for me but only in math and science, which this year is calculus and physics. It’s all just logic and math, so I can easily learn cram for a couple of hours before an exam and do fine (A, A+). Now for english or history or classes like that, cramming does NOT work for me.</p>
<p>What exactly do you consider cramming?</p>
<p>studying all the material the night before the test without having previously studied it…I find that it only works for humanities classes like history where you don’t necessarily have to understand concepts…for classes like math and physics where many times you previously learned the concepts in lecture then reviewing them the night before is no sweat…unless you never understood them in the first place</p>
<p>I think each person is different.
I define cramming as “studying something the night before for the first time”.</p>
<p>Even though you may have gone over it in class 3 weeks earlier, cramming means it’s the first time you actually study it.</p>
<p>I can’t memorize to save my life, so studying English literary terms the night before an exam doesn’t work for me, but understanding concepts comes easier to me so I can learn how to take surface integrals at 3am, no problem.</p>
<p>ChamilitaryMayne made a good point… although ‘craming’ and ‘mass memorization’ can work for some arts and humanities classes (where exams are often exercises in regurgitation of facts and figures) this dosen’t work for science and math classes where you truly have to know the material inside an out as the questions are typically much more dynamic in nature.</p>
<p>e.g. Questions that test your ability to apply knowlege to solve a problem that you’ve never seen before vs. testing your ability to recall certain facts and figures about a book or person/event.</p>