now for something completely different
This is a topic that is very real to me right now.
Which is better:
A) Staying up late into the early morning to study for a test the next day,
OR
B) Getting up early in the morning to study.
What do you think?
Which is better:
A) Staying up late into the early morning to study for a test the next day,
OR
B) Getting up early in the morning to study.
What do you think?
posted by Ryan at Wednesday, October 17, 2007
10 Comments:
Here's the the way I see it:
A) If you are super tired from being at school all day, then it will be hard to study and your brain will be getting really tired by 11 or 12pm.
B) If you've gotten a fairly good sleep after a long day at school, your brain will be somewhat refreshed (you hope!) and it will be easier to get some work done without your eyes feeling like they're being pulled shut!
Sooo...I pick B) getting up early in the morning to study.
Unless you're NOT a morning person. Then I would pick A.
How late is "late into the early morning"? I try to study from 10:30 to 12:30 or 1, then go to bed so as to get a half-decent night's sleep. I avoid studying in the morning as much as possible, so at most I'll study for 30-45 minutes before a 9:30 midterm. I value sleep over morning studying, and do my best work between 10 pm and 1 am. So...A), but not TOO late. : )
at night, all the way.
in the morning, it is really hard to wake yourself out of a nice warm bed to study.
start at like 6-ish the night before, and if you are like me, by the time 11:30 rolls around you'll have gotten a start on it, cram from 11:30 to 2:30, go to bed and then drink three cups of coffee when you wake up, and you will be all set.
Oh and i think i smoked you on that history midterm.
maybe
I think the morning...but don't just roll out of bed and study, take a shower, eat a breakfast you make for yourself, and maybe go outside and feed your dog too..then study. The hours of sleep you get BEFORE midnight are worth double the hours you sleep after.
Hey RYan! remember those Simply Delicious chocolate bars we sold for the Ottawa trip? I just had a piece just now, and they aren't as good as they used to taste. lol
if you stay up late enough to study, it will become early in the morning. and you dont have to deal with having to get up. obviously.
I go to bed, because that way I get sleep. Without sleep, I don't live. And, this system gives me an option in the morning, right when I wake up, and when I have my clearest thought of the day. I set my alarm for about 3:00 a.m., and then when it wakes me up, I decide whether it's really going to be worth studying or not. If not, I'll go back to sleep, and have a good nine hour sleep, and then somehow scrape by with last minute cramming. If it is worth studying for (exam, major test) then, I study, and my mind is refreshed.
But, you are not a morning person. Being at your house in the morning has shown me this. So, just do whatever you want.
whatever you do, don't try to do both in one instance. I tried this and ended up sleeping through the beginning of my exam. I studied from 11pm till 4am, at which point my eyelids gained a few pounds (note to self: start eyelid workout), so naturally I thought "time for a nap!" The alarm was set for 6am so I could continue studying, but my body would take a nap when it wanted the real deal. So, it slept against my express wishes, and screwed me for the exam: I only studied half of the entire history course and was groggy to boot. you don't want to be an ignorant grog.
yeah.
sleep is definitely most important--at least, if you're awake, you can BS enough of the exam to make it look like you've studied. I would like to say just don't leave it till the last minute like this, because if you'd studied earlier at a normal time you wouldn't be in this predicament.
Except I can't say that because I've been there waaaay too many times, and I'm definitely there right now. (at least studying can be done in the comfort of home---some work needs to be done at the Print Studio, into the wee hours when things get a little crazy...not so fun!)
Let me just throw a wrench into this argument for sleep and time management: a paper finished at 4 or 5 am of the duedate was the best mark I've received on a paper... pretty cool!
physiologically, what is best is to study two days before the midterm, review for an hour or so the evening before and then go for a jog, take a warm relaxing bubble bath, wear your favorite pjs and hit the hay at around 10pm. wake up so that you have a good hour to sing in the shower, eat some oatmeal, do your morning stretches and get to school on time to place a nicely polished apple on your prof's desk.
I always try to get a good sleep (10-6), never going to bed before 11 the night before a morning exam.
I generally try to study during the day and find a group of studious people to study with (very key), taking enough breaks for pillow fights.
I also try to spend the earliest morning and the latest night hours that I am awake devoted to reading and prayer. It is hard to imagine the difference between a day where you start with God and a day you start busy.
Oh, and I prefer morning exams to night exams.
DKZ
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