WEEK DISCUSSION: CRAMMING - AN EFFICIENT LEARNING SKILL?

WEEK DISCUSSION: CRAMMING - AN EFFICIENT LEARNING SKILL?

In education, cramming (also known as mugging or swotting, that is, "to study with determination") is the practice of working intensively to absorb large volumes of informational material in short amounts of time. It is often done by students in preparation for upcoming exams, especially at the last minute. Cramming is often discouraged by educators because the hurried coverage of material tends to result in poor long-term retention of material, a phenomenon often referred to as the spacing effect. When cramming, one attempts to focus only on studies and to forgo unnecessary actions or habits.

  
Often times, people tend to see the act of learning by "Cramming" as skill that should be discouraged. However, In fact, research shows that over 70 percent of scholars learn by cramming yet the it is discouraged educators. Although long hours of cramming could result to dizziness, fatigue, headache and so on. Therefore as a scholar in this age Myscholarz will like to know your take/view on this subject.

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