Re:How to Study Effectively
by foobarian on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @04:11PM
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In my experience it gets more complicated depending on the days leading up to the event. Given good sleep for a good stretch of days up to the day before the exam, all-nighter can work out fine. But I guess there is a correlation between lack of discipline to get good sleep and not studying regularly so I can see that being a rare situation :-)
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I think all nighters are bad idea, because my college mates who done them had ... less then smart answers to even simple questions.
They were smart, as people. But not sleeping whole night makes you dumb. And they inability to figure what was not memorized harmed their performance a lot.
Re:How to Study Effectively
by Quikinterp on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:16PM
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Yeah this would make sense. I still do think all nighters would probably harm your memory retention even if you do it a couple days before the exam. I'd imagine the brain has more time to really process what you're studying if you sleep after doing so.