Learning Challenge: Sleep

(Cat just wants to sleep. Click picture to watch gif. Source: Reddit)

Why Sleeping May Be More Important Than Studying. Source: MindShift

The article confirmed about what I knew about how choosing to sacrifice sleep to cram can actually cause you to do worse on tests. I will say based on personal experience, this is kinda true. When I cram before a test sometimes, the stuff I stayed up cramming for did not really help me but other times it was important. Regardless, I should have been preparing for the exam about a week or few days before that way I would not have to stay up so late and would be prepared. I wish I could say I learned something new from this article but I did not. When I was studying for the MCAT I had to know quite a bit about sleeping and dreams. Also, I have just been really fascinated by dreams and therefore knew a lot about sleep. I have also heard people talk about how sleeping helps with memory. I did try this and was able to recall more after a good nights sleep versus minimal sleep. I would like to see how accurate this study is and look more into how cramming affects test scores. I also think it would be interesting to see how sleeping in phases would affect someone. What I mean by this is sleeping 2-3 hours at a time. I once was studying for an exam and would set my alarm for an hour or two later so I could rest and wake up to continue studying. That did help me and I was able to do well on the test.