Is it your desire to score within the
distinction range (70%
and above) in all your tests and
examinations? Do you
desire to graduate from the university with
outstanding
results with an appealing transcript? Have
you longed to be
named as the best graduating student of
your class, your
faculty or even the entire university?
There is one secret to
acheive it, same way academic giants
acheived theirs. That
secret is enshrined in how you study.
Cramming your notes and required text
books and materials
will not give you good grades and make
you academically
bright. Cliche right? But its true. Now look
at this.
Understanding the material, notes and
class lectures wont
give you your desired academic success
either. Shocking
right? Its true. You can attest to the fact
that you may have
done either of these two but havent seen
significant
changes
in your grades.
What then is the solution? Understanding
PLUS cramming is
the secret!
We hear lecturers and other academic
speakers advising
students never to cut to simply
understand what they
are being taught. They didnt tell you the
whole story. A vital
ingredient is missing from the pot of soup.
When you understand a material only but
dont cram the text
word for word, cramming the terms and
the context that an
authority delivered the message, you
appear amateurish.
This would show in your write ups in
essays and you would
always be average in your objective
questions. This is
because, you may understand what you
want to say, but
you
would use layman terms to express
yourself, instead of
delivering your answers in an academic
tone, thus
appearing as if a road side groundnut
seller wrote the essay.
You would score low.
When you're asked to define
Electromagnetism, and you
answer by saying"I cant really remember
the terms though
but it means when current or electricity
and magnet power
work together to acheive an aim " you can
expect the
examiner to throw your scripts into the
trash bin. A different
scenario would occur if you defined the
term exactly as it
was stated in the textbooks and then
proceed to explain
what it means using the terms of the field
in the right
context. You then appear educated and an
authority as far
as that subject is concerned and gain
maximum marks.
Therefore, when studying you can
approach it in two forms.
One form either by first cramming the
material and making
sure you can say it by heart and then
proceed to try and
understand what its talking about in such
a way that u can
explain it to anyone and apply it, or you
first take your time
to understand the topic and then go on to
thoroughly]
memorise the material.
When you do this, there is no exam you
wont come up on
top and be among the best in your class
and always score
above the 70th percentile. This is how to
be academically
excellent.

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I think you are completely right,most students underestimate the ability to express oneself in proper English that makes one look so much as a professional student.
However i think this can be achieved by maximising ones vocabulary without necessarily using the terms on the textbook.
Some synonymous words express ideas better than the original writeup.Thanks but "vocabulary expansion" and "Understanding" should be the two ingredients,not "cramming".