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The Truth About Cramming
Rudmila Ahmed
How many of you know the sinking feeling way down somewhere in your tummy just before a major exam? Or the fluttering butterfly that you feel in your abdomen when you appear in a classroom unprepared? If you do, then welcome to the ''Procrastinator's Club". People in this club are those who delay any assignment to the point of completing it only five hours before it's due. To qualify for this exclusive (?) club, you need to appear late in class every week at least two times. Upon arriving, you need to hurry to the back to hide from the teacher, and just as you snuck in, you need to sneak out.
However, people who belong in this club have it hard in their university life. As it is, every student needs to maintain a pace in order to avoid becoming a gold member of this club. And let me tell you, our gold members are famous in their respected arenas as being the "Failtush Selim" or "Gadha Pintu" (the ruder the title the more qualified they are). Despite that, I'm sure they have earned their place in our club.
Cramming, or studying an entire chapter in an hour, is an intrinsic part of student life. It is an understandable thing that no student (unless you are madly in love with the textbook's beauty) is very eager to study daily. Many of us would rather skip a day or two between each home study session. And when we do that, we are preparing to cram the night before the exam.
It is known that cramming does more harm than good. Since you are forcing information all at once at a dizzying pace, the brain tends to remember the information that you really paid attention to. All the other study materials are overlooked, and thus the blank feeling you get during the exams when absolutely nothing will make you remember what you studied last night.
Cramming is detrimental for health, in an indirect way that is. Usually cramming is done late at night, in an expanse of time depending on the student. But in that time period, most students take caffeine to keep themselves forcibly awake, creating pressure not only on the mind but also on their health. Building a habit of cramming can lead to insomnia, eye problems, headache, fatigue, lethargy etc. due to the nature of the habit.
So what's the best bet? Whether you want to hear it or not, the fact holds true, studying daily really helps. Five minutes of just reading carefully does more good than five hours of cramming overnight. Therefore, developing good study habits not only makes your result look better, but also relieves unnecessary strain on your brain. "Procrastinator's Club" we hope will be transformed into “Studious Students” club as we all learn and realize the value of working hard.
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1 A: Give the car key to the doctor, let the doctor take the old lady to the hospital and stay to wait for the bus with the lady of your dream!
2 A: Start both hour glasses as the egg is dropped in the boiling water. When the sand stops running in the 7-minute hourglass, turn it over. When the sand stops running in the 11-minute hourglass, turn the 7-minute hourglass over and leave the 11-minute hourglass. When the sand stops in the 7-minute hourglass, 15 minutes will have elapsed.
3 A: Go to the barber with the disorganized shop. He probably gave the neat barber his beautiful haircut!
4 A: Her birthday is on December 31. If today is January 1, then the day before yesterday, she was nine, yesterday she turned ten, this year she'll turn eleven and NEXT year she'll turn twelve!
5 A: The guy had bet his friends Tk. 5,000 that he could break the store owner's vase and not only would the store owner not mind, but he would be happy about it.
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