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Cramming... Does it really work?

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    #32
    cocoa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭cocoa


    bigkev49 wrote:
    IMO works for college, not for leaving cert. Easy to cram one year or possibly even one semester but not two years worth of material.
    two years of college material, certainly, but the leaving cert is more like one semester of college material...


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    #33
    cson
    Registered Users Posts: 14,469 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Yes but the leaving cert is spread out over ~7 subjects and is therefore more varied than a specialised college course hence making it difficult to cram everything. Incomparable imo.


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    #34
    Lucas10101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 630 ✭✭✭Lucas10101


    I think you have to do some degree of groundwork first. Like for maths, if you never did homework and tried to cram, cram, cram it may not work for you.

    Same with other subjects, you would of had to of done something over the past two years and the people that do more pre-work and cram would get higher than those who did little pre-work and cram, of course depending on their ability to retain information.


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    #35
    Enemy Of Fate
    Registered Users Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Enemy Of Fate


    Lucas10101 wrote:
    I think you have to do some degree of groundwork first. Like for maths, if you never did homework and tried to cram, cram, cram it may not work for you.
    Well it worked great for me in Maths....although it was only pass.


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    #36
    adam_ccfc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭adam_ccfc


    I'd consider that I worked steadily throughout the year, but I always do study the day before an exam, it just keeps it fresh in the short-term memory, and can help.


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    #37
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Well I studied consistently, but cramming really helped me...remembering adjectives to describe irish poems/stories....looking over past History essays and taking statistics and phrases from them...memorising Biology diagrams...milking statistics for geog..

    Short-term memory FTW.


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    #38
    Feddd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Feddd


    Cramming works VERY WELL for economics as the course is so short. in toher subjects you may need to specialise what you do for cramming.


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    #39
    Arctic_Monkeh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭Arctic_Monkeh


    Cramming...?!

    Now thats the million dollar question.

    Im unconvinced as to whether it is a foolproof method of learning. i think it is a short term thing. Think about it, anyone who crammed for lots of tests, do you remember most of it now? i did for the mocks and i forgot most of the stuff i learned for the actual LC.

    Saying that, I LIVE BY CRAMMING! Ha, and im going to have to cram my brains out for my construction exam tomorrow!


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    #40
    cabla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭cabla


    I think it depends on the person...some people cant study, or they jsut forget it a few weeks later ( <---me)

    So cramming is essential


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    #41
    ashyle
    Registered Users Posts: 699 ✭✭✭ashyle


    Worked for me in Irish... not in any of the others tho...aww...


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    #42
    Karlusss
    Registered Users Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Karlusss


    Discovered today Classics is too big to cram in one day.

    Well I knew. But it came out of repressed memory.


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    #43
    fionated7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭fionated7


    depends on the person but i defo give cramming the thumbs up!!

    12 hours studying music tomorrow should be fun!!!


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    #44
    cheater
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭cheater


    i hope so economics here i come *yawn*


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