Do you have/had the habit of studying only before the exams?

Hello, you have a nice discussion. I was a lazy student. I only go for study or revision at the last minute. Hence I need to study very hard when the exam is coming real soon to me. But most of my friends that I know, they study everyday in fact of last minute. they go studying daily. Of course it is the best way to learn. We have to get prepare early before the day come. It is just like get an umbrella before it rains.

Yes, that's my habit I know that many people say better to study everyday, but I don't find any problem in study only 1 or 2 days before exam, not everyday (and my scores are good). I feel lazy if I read the same material again and again..it makes me sleepy and I can easily forget it if I read it too often. For me, it's better to have short time but effective study (it means you really focusing yourself in that lesson) than study from 1 week before the day but not serious / many interuption, either eat, talk with friends, send text message, etc.. I believe each people have different method to understand the lesson well. For me, it's to stay focus to teacher explanation and study whenever I want seriously

Dear Phillip, I am guilty of this 'LAST MINUTE STUDY', So I am taking this opportunity here to advise whoever are sitting for any examinations, please be consistent and study everyday... it is for your own good, and you will definitely get 'flying colours' I always did last minute study, or Just-In-Time (JIT), IF not in time then I will resort to SPOT QUESTIONS. If it come out, I will jump in joy, if it did not come out Because of last minutes study, we purely study for the exams only. All the data and informations are stored in a special folder in my brain! It is called 'For Exams Only' with a clause - self delete after exams! So all data will be called to answer the questions, I did quite well.. normally can score distintions...BUT do not asked me now on Geography, Maths, Science, Physics, Biology, Chemistry or any non-language subjects. I cannot remember, because it was automatically deleted after the exams! If anyone asked me, I will jokingly answered them : I HAVE RETURNED THEM TO THE TEACHER, THEY NEED THEM TO TEACH THE FOLLOWING YEARS STUDENTS...LOL Thank God I do not need to sit for exams anymore...what a relieve!

When i was in school i never studied, not even before exams. Well i had a quick skim through the stuff but nothing major. I am the kind of person who just takes stuff in as the teacher was talking and then i would just remember it. Ive never really been one for learning from reading.

Hey buddy this is really beautiful question which probably i should have thought 8 years back ha ha. well i was and even now sailing in the same boat. i have always studied for the exams only the night before the exam. well some subject like English i have studied only an hour before the exam. When i move into new academic year i have always plan to study my subjects on daily basis but it goes on only for few days and then i am back to routine games and roaming. i crossed the same way till my 12 years of schooling and even college. Well studying the night before exam would not be recommended by me as i was always been a average student but rather if i had studied i would have been top in the class may in school too.

When I was in high school (11-16) I never studied except for the day before exams, I was always much too distracted by the Internet to even bother! When I moved up to college (16-18) and only have 4 subjects to study, two of which I really enjoyed, and so I started studying about a month before the exams started, though most of the time it was half hearted and would only become real studying the week before when I would take a self-enforced vacation from the Internet to concentrate on the work. In university I was usually too busy with written assessments to do all that much studying, and never read around the subject, so the studying went back to a lot of last minute work again, though thankfully by then exams weren't as important so it wasn't too bad lol! I think ideally studying daily would have been a good decision, and would probably have helped things stick in my mind, but I always worried that I would forget whatever I studied first in favour of things learnt afterwards so stuck to the last minute approach. It would be interesting to see what would happen, though I don't know if I could have managed it around my other interests lol All the best, Dranz

Hi there phillip_shiny! When I was still in school, I had this attitude of reading my notes as regularly as possible. I did not want to cram. I always wanted to make sure that I was ready for whatever exam. Now that I am teaching, I also encourage my students to read their notes even if there are no exams scheduled.

My thought was to study daily & then refresh my memory just before exams. I would study daily & highlight the important things in my books. Just before the exams. I glance through my books thereby refreshing my brain of the more important information. If you wait to just before exams to study, I don't think you're really learning...only stuffing facts into the brain so you can pass the exam. I don't think that is learning...it is only cramming!!! By studying daily, you might not even need to study before the exam as you have the knowledge!!! Why go to college if you don't truly want to learn???

I have that habit, really I do. I just can't shake it off. Even if I already read the books beforehand, I don't have the confident that I remember the details. So each night before any exam, I'll definitely become panic and start reading again. It is sux~~~ At least I realized I need to concentrate on what I am reading instead of become more panic and jump from one topic to another so I cover up everything.

Back in high school and college, i always study before going to exams, i have tendency to forget it early if i study it long before exams. it ain't easy though but it's okay for me to do it since i get to remember almost 80% of what I've studied.

From my childhood I studied only before the exam day and i'm continuing till now.Though we had strict study hours in our schools i never studied at all.I thought its a waste of time but by studying everyday It improves your concentration and memory power.I always go for enjoying life apart from studies.I'm doing it now too..;)

I don't have such habit. I read lessons everyday. Teachers told that 'read all day.' I learned that when we study only before the exam.., the exam will be very tough. We should study when teachers taught us. In that time we will remember all the lessons. Now I am reading/studying all days. I have no exam fear. Then I listen all lessons clearly. Then I have no doubt.... Very good good good discussion. Have a nice day.

Hi phillip_shiny, When I was a student, I also don't study daily I only start reviewing my notes before the exam day. When we have our interest in the subject even if we don't study on it daily, we will have it on our mind. It automatically be an additional knowledge to us. Now since the exams may consist enumerations, and word for word definition of terms, I find it easier to just study before the exams.

hi my fellow my lotter ,that is really very good discussion.in my school days i use to work hard with my studies.i use to study each every day after returning home.but when i have entered into my college ,then i have changed,i use to enjou my college life.i bunked colleges ,but at the time of exams i use to study

When I was in school, (at University) back in the dark ages before computers and cell phones, I did keep up with my school work, but did make a point of studying extra before exams. I would spend that week before finals organizing my notes, getting the notes together, rewriting what I thought the prof would test us on and studying those. I have to say that over the 4 yrs of college I got better at knowing what the prof would probably be testing us on and by the last semester actually made the honor roll.

During my time as a student I admit I was not the perfect student, most of the time I am cramming. I do things for rush because when I was in college I have so many things to do. Sometimes I do study in advance, much more if that subject is really critical. I do save my time to study to it strictly. when that subject are just minor, I will study it a night before the exam so that for yesterday it will still stay fresh on my brain. I was successful sometimes but sometimes I got mental blocked. We are not perfect, but atleast we done our best to be a good student.

it has been a while since i was in college. but i dont think i studied on a daily basis. rather, i did homework and lots of reading and researching on a daily basis. and, when i wasnt reading, researching or doing homework, i was relaxing or sleeping before i continue to do other homework and more reading. i think it is a good habit to study on a daily basis, if u can do that. but that is too much studying for me. i need to take breaks and breathe.

That my habit when I was being in first year college but when i realize that it is not right because we cannot immediately memorize all our subjects so i decide to study and study, readings and reading books to memorize something related onto the topics we studied before...It's hard to take exams if we only study when exams date. have a great day!

Its very heartening to see there are people like me :) I never studied through out the year and always believed in studying for 3-4 days before exams.But somehow I always managed to pull it off with good marks.The habit continued and I completed my engineering also doing the same.I am lucky I never had to suffer because of this habit. I think one should study through out the year and be on track.

In school and college I studied every day, but not every subject. I found that rewriting notes cemented things in my mind, so I had notebooks full of notes that I could go back over when needed. It was a system; record the class, transcribe the recording to notes, next day read over notes again. If any questions listen to the recording again. If not, copy the notes and put them away. It worked for me. In difficult subjects reading over the last week's notes before transcribing the new ones helped put things together for me. I am older now, and find learning much harder! I have to study every day to learn now. What a difference!