<p>I feel like I'm doing this studying thing wrong. Do all-nighters help in any way?
I'm debating over whether I should go to sleep or study for chem. After failing the bio 1b final, I feel like I should probably try something different.</p>
<p>My frankest view is – if you don’t know a bunch of stuff before the day of the final, you’ll do more poorly on a problem-solving-based exam than if you’d slept more and studied a little less. If it’s memorization, go ahead and forego sleep and take it in a stupor, even though studies say memory is greatly aided by sleep, given I think in such extreme cases, all-nighters may be warranted.</p>
<p>But in a problem-solving-based exam, if there are say 7 questions, think about it – you get points mainly for getting very far on given questions, not for BS-ing on a lot of them. That means you need a clear enough head to at least get several questions totally right. Sleep seems the smarter option.</p>
<p>that makes good sense^^ i would go with his advice</p>
<p>Ok, thanks for the advice! Sounds reasonable. I guess I’ll be sleeping today. I hope I don’t oversleep and miss my exam tomorrow though. haha.</p>
<p>how do you know you failed the final for bio…=
i’m thinking of staying up late, but getting some sleep i mean after all, it’s at 5</p>
<p>Oh, I’m pretty sure I failed. Unless everyone else did really bad too… Even then, I’m still screwed.</p>
<p>Well, I have to turn in an essay before 11a, then a math final at 1230 so unfortunately for me, I can’t sleep in. :[</p>
<p>Would it be worth it to stay up late to study mechanisms for reactions? That’s like memorization. hmm</p>
<p>yup, i have the same philosophy as mathboy and waiting.</p>