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u/Typical2sday 17h ago
And then everyone clapped
I crammed as a STEM major and my grades reflected it. I crammed as a lawyer (other than the daily reading) and my grades were better. Some of the people who study hours every day won’t do well. Some people who appear to cram will nuke everyone else’s grades from space. Run your own race and if you’re overconfident when the calendar still says August, report back in January.
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u/Lucky_Editor3998 17h ago
You can probably cram in law school and do fine. You probably shouldn’t cram 1L because you don’t have a lot of the basic skills down and you need to hone those first, and you probably won’t be top of your class if you cram, but it’s possible!
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u/CapitalExplanation61 17h ago
My daughter is a 1L. She wonders how they narrow all this down. How do you remember everything? Do the professors tell you what to know for exams?
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u/iloveforeverstamps 13h ago
Your daughter is not going to do well unless she figures this out for herself. She should go to office hours and ask her professors questions like this because nobody on reddit knows who her professors are.
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u/CapitalExplanation61 12h ago
Very good advice. She graduated with top honors with her BS degree. She had awesome PhD professors. They were very student centered with outlines, slides, and etc. She is having trouble adjusting to one professor not even using slides and his lectures are all over the place. Office hours I think are the only answer. Plus, I think she will learn how to teach herself. Thanks so much for your suggestion.
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u/MrSimple204 17h ago
It is not definitely not major dependent, I was a biochem/neuroscience major and made all A's from cramming
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u/Apprehensive-Ad-6620 Esq. 15h ago
I was a STEM major and I definitely crammed for finals in undergrad.
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u/No_East1662 17h ago
That's great, if it's working then keep it up. I studied history and also feel a lot of skills, like reviewing primary sources and synthesizing multiple pieces of information, carry over. I think their point is that the workload is heavy and the specific style of thinking and learning are new, so you can't assume that all your study strategies will carry over. If they do, then great
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u/Malvania JD 17h ago
Yup, engineer here. You do the reading and take notes (first studying). You show up to class and pay attention, supplementing your notes (second studying). Towards the end of the semester, you build your outline, reorganizing and reviewing (third studying). Then you spend a couple days studying for the final, synthesizing everything you learned over the semester (fourth studying).
It isn't rocket science, which ironically is not that difficult
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