Night before a test: study or sleep?

[ski]

The obvious answer is sleep :)

But it's 12:43am and my test is at 8am. I need more time to understand diodes (mostly understand em), Zener diodes, voltage regulators, and I'm just about to go over transistors, the second half of the test, which I'm not bad at. Summer school really crams the information in fast! About 5-6 hours of sleep should be good for me tonight.

Have you ever sacrificed sleep for studying, and did anything exceptionally good or bad come out of it worthy of posting? ;)

[whitak24]

"did i ever sacrifice sleep for studying?" :heh:

a more appropriate question might be, "did i ever sacrifice studying for sleep?"

i pulled more all-nighters than i care to count. basically, i'm a complete procrastinator, so i'd put off studying till the last minutes. however, usually the all-nighters were for papers/projects.

tests, i tended to study until 1 or 2 and then cram in the morning just before the exam.

as for notable outcomes: one time, the night before i had to present my senior capstone research paper, i was of course running majorly behind. about 4 am, i started puking. i don't know if it was nerves, or if i was actually sick. anyway, i puked for awhile and then went back to work.

there were many occasions when i would grab a catnap on the kitchen floor. the linoleum (sp?) is pretty hard and cold and you can't sleep long there (vs. the couch, where you can easily fall asleep and be out for the night).

[bachviet]

Cram sucks but I did it plenty of time back in the days.

[revil]

I study when i don't know the material. like tonight. i have another german vocab test tommorrow and i don't know it. i start now.

[Sir_Froggy]

NEIN! thats the one german word I know :)



you puked? thats gross....

[Dirty Sanchez]

SLEEP! Put your book under you pillow and study through osmosis.

[revil]

Originally posted by Dirty Sanchez
osmosis
I prefer diffusion.

[InfiniteNothing]

Hey it's all about 80:20. 80 % of the value of studying is in 20% of it. So study the most important 20% and then sleep. Honestly you'll do better for the sleep you get.

[ski]

Ended up doing horribly on it :( But after the test, everyone was confused on about half of the test, so these things have a way of curving up :)

Hope and pray, hope and pray, hope and pray he's nice in grading :angel:

[rtse313]

Originally posted by skiAtomic
Ended up doing horribly on it :( But after the test, everyone was confused on about half of the test, so these things have a way of curving up :)

Hope and pray, hope and pray, hope and pray he's nice in grading :angel:

don't believe what your classmate said after the test !!! there always people saying how they did terrible and confused on the test but ended up with As. hate those suckers !!

[ski]

yeah, I'm usually one of them, but the other times I believe it!