Cramming isn't the ideal way to study for an exam but you're here you've come to this video likely with an exam tomorrow or...in a few hours so let's focus on what you can do to optimize your time.
Harris says that American education is suffering from an epidemic of " fake math" — an emphasis on the rote memorization of formulas and steps, rather than an understanding of how math can influence the ways we see the world.
Don't Cram Information If you're studying for a test or preparing for an important meeting, it might be tempting to just dedicate a few hours the night before to try to cram all the information.
So while cramming the night before the exam may seem logical — after all, won't the material be fresh in your mind? — the information won't stick around for the long term.
Anyone under the impression that he or she was merely cramming for a standardized exam was in for an awakening when my father offered a modern poem or a passage of Confucius or Plutarch's " Lives" to mull over.
But what you should do from that is to take ideas about how to structure your answer, take some vocabulary, take some expressions, but don't try to memorize the answer because it's going to sound very artificial.
But, at night our biological clock seems to turn off the proteins involved in forming long term memories, which is why it's best not to cram for a test all night.
And Brilliant is a great place to quickly learn about both, because their courses breakdown concepts into their intuitive principles and then build them back up, so you aren't simply memorizing things.