<p>Most Students that post here at CC seem to be very smart and academically dedicated. SO, how many of how stay up all night studying for an AP test or doing school work? Is this method effective?--I tried staying through the night once to finish my term paper and was very light headed during the next day at school. I guess once or twice can't hurt you do. I am asking this because i recently read an article that the claim that academically successful students, top 10%, is a myth and that , in fact, students that do well go to bed early and sleep at least 8 hours.</p>
<p>Some here are able to sustain it for a time before undergoing mental burnout; once this happens a schedule must be reamde to account for personal health. It is why many East Asian cram students have no health, because they don't adjust. I have never pulled an all-nighter and probably won't have to do so until senior year in college, because I know how to pace myself correctly.</p>
<p>I never pull all nighters for a test. That is usually a horrible idea. However, for various projects and papers...oh yeah.</p>
<p>Have you ever tried to memorize something and had a thin grasp on it and then went to sleep? Then in the morning, usually, you remember it far better than you did before you went to sleep. Maybe this is only true for me, who knows.... The latest I have ever stayed up studying for tests was 2:30am during finals. </p>
<p>I must add, every all nighter I have ever pulled was in fact avoidable to some extent.</p>
<p>I have never pulled an all nighter. I do all of my work right when it's first assigned that way I don't have to pull all nighters. I also work out a schedule for tests and final exams.</p>
<p>I stay up late for the hell of it, not for homework. I USUALLY pull all-nighters for homework, and, well, last time I did that I got a 100 on my project. Once I was up all night on iSketch.net and didn't realize what time it was until like 5 AM. But at that point I figured one hour of sleep wouldn't do me any good so I stayed up the rest of the night. And once I was up all night reading magazines (over summer vacation, though) and didn't notice what time it was.</p>
<p>I used to pull a ton of all-nighters my freshman year, and it was fun while it lasted. Then sophomore year came around and I realized I couldn't do it anymore because I would try to stay up every single day. This year I've realized that I need enough rest to balance the times when I stay up, so I either go to bed early (6-7 hours of sleep) or late (0-2 hours of sleep). I recently began noticing that I'm able to wake up earlier on weekends without an alarm, and it's because I'm getting more sleep. In my freshman and sophomore years I'd be in bed until noon or so on weekends. It was bad.</p>
<p>I've also been eating healthier this year. That may have something to do with it.</p>
<p>correction- I recently read an article stating that the claim that academically successful students (top 10%) pull many all-nighters throughout their high school years is a myth and that , in fact, students that do well go to bed early and sleep at least 8 hours.
-sorry</p>
<p>ok, going through each one:
-really? is that true? because i'm in the top 10%, i don't do stuff ahead of time because whatever i plan never works out for some reason or another, but i don't pull all-nighters. i somehow work it out before 12am. lol. that's like my ultimate deadline. if i seem to be passing it, i just do it the next day in class/study hall/w.e option i have...
-yes, if you try to memorize something before going to bed, it does get focused/digested/processed in your brain while you are asleep (well ur brain's resting which makes it easier for it) so you end up remembering whatever it is better the next morning...there have also been studies that proved this point.
-about asians doing all-nighters, idk about others...but i surely don't. especially tests, it's a bad idea as moose said. but for papers and projects, i do stay up if necessary but i need my sleep at all costs. lol.
-it's fun to do all-nighters if you're in company with ppl who are fun too , like if you're on procrastination station on CC and the whole gang's online, it's awesome...although i did only stay up til like 3am at the most and that too on the weekend...</p>
<p>I stay up longer when I have projects/homework to do. But generally I have better luck with tests when I just do an hour of studying before it starts than if I bust my brains on it all through the night before. We'll see if I'm doing the same thing next year.</p>
<p>I often stay up anywhere between 2 - 4 AM, but I can never pull an all-nighter. I always manage to finish by 5 AM at the latest, so I figure that it wouldn't hurt to sleep for an hour or two.</p>
<p>All-nighters aren't worth it. Maybe I'll stay up to finish projects and presentations with all nighters, but never just "studying" - especially for SATs, APs, finals, etc. I've found that too little sleep is more deleterious than one realizes because one simply does not function and absorb the information as easily if one had gotten sleep. You tend to second guess yourself and simply.....unable to think. For me? 6.5 hours is best. Tired enough to be focused, but not too tired that I'm sluggish. In fact, I'm quite sharp with 6.5 hours of sleep. Chaaayyyhhh sleep is waaay more important. I mean, without sleep, you can't think and absorb information. So I drop everything and make sure that I get atleast 5 hours of sleep.</p>
<p>You can think without sleep if you have enough drugs in your system (i.e. concentration boosters combined with heavy doses of caffeine), but you are destroying yourself in the process.</p>
<p>I'm almost always in bed by 3am.</p>
<p>Once an all nighter for a the last night of a camp, during the summer… but never during school.</p>
<p>I always go to bed by 2:30. After that point I’m just unable to function, and chugging more coke just makes me all jittery and adrenaline filled and not focused. Like a weird sort of excited energy, but I feel gross…</p>
<p>I <em>try</em> to get more sleep before tests, b/c I do see a decrease in my performance if I stay up past 11:30-ish. You have to strike the right balance of studying enough to know the material but not so much you get no sleep. Haha, but my last math test I stayed up studying until 1, and then I couldn’t sleep b/c I was too nervous (partly about how little sleep i was getting! sucks…) and so i listened to the radio, and then i listened to some music, and i read a little, and… it’s 3am. I have to wake up at 6 
And then b/c of my 3hrs of sleep i got like a C- (and I’m an A student in math), so, yeah… not so great.</p>