subject: Passing An Exam: Is It Possible To Learn Latin Overnight [print this page] Lazy bones vsLazy bones vs. the boffinated students
Some students claim to have unique abilities. They play truant from classes, fail to do their homework but desire to get an excellent grade at the exam. These students are assured that they will learn everything overnight and try to assure others in it. But the memory conforms to certain physiological rules, doesnt it?
The students which are hardworking and assiduous are sometimes despised by others and called the boffinated. But the despised students are right that only constant industrious work can result in good professional skills. Studying by fits and starts is senseless whatever the lazy bones may say. Gaps in ones knowledge prevent from finding logical links and drawing to the conclusions. Having got only separate details of a puzzle one will never get the picture. It is preferable to work in accordance with the physiological laws of memory not to break them.
Useful hints for preparation
On the condition that a student attended all the classes, performed all the tasks, the preparation for the exam will not take him/her much time. It will be enough
to reread ones notes,
look through the course material, and systematize it.
do some practical assignments in order to refresh ones memory.
But certainly it is an ideal student, which does not exist. It is in the student nature that a lot of material is left by them for the last moment. Even the most assiduous as a rule have some gaps to supply them one day before the exam.
Speaking about the lazy bones, their excitement during the preparation period has no limits. Certainly, it is rather difficult to cope with agitation, if one has to get somebodys notes, decipher somebodys handwriting. Then it is necessary to read an extensive course book and manage to remember at least something. To remember in this case means to save in the short-term memory up to the moment the exam will be passed. It is possible to revise the material, supply some gaps, but not to form the skills overnight. Thus, nobody can learn Latin overnight; it is possible to learn only several words or phrases.
