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What's easier to remember: what you ate for breakfast today or what you ate a week ago? Exactly.
Our memory changes and fades away overtime, so the information that you learned a week ago can be altered or wrong in your mind. When you're reading a book you remember what you just read for a second but you don't remember what you read five pages earlier.
If you lack time or motivation, it's possible to use procrastination for your own benefit. Just note that everyone is different and for some people it might be too stressful or ineffective. It's good to know your strengths and weaknesses since it can help you find the right study style for you.
It's important to remember to manage your time wisely. I'm sorry but you won't make a whole presentation a minute before it's due. I did something like this once but it was 15 minutes before. For most quizzes and tests the optimal time to revise would be a day before, or even the same day.
It works because the pressure causes your body to release adrenalyn which makes you motivated and helps you focus. It's best to be able to transform negative stress (distress) into positive stress (eustress) - instead of thinking about what could go wrong try to do what's necessary to avoid failure.
Depending on your personal preferences, you can take breaks or not.
And remember to get into the zone: max focus during studying.
If it doesn't work on you, no worries, everyone is different and studies in their own way. :)
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robbinscatter
I use the technique i call "picky plate": i either choose what's more interesting to do in the moment or is less time consuming. This way it starts with the most enjoyable or short thing to do and it gives you a motivation at the form of pleasure or increased percentage of the work done. It goes from the best to the worst and each time you choose the easiest way out and still make progress because other parts will be done in some time too. In that way I've read 56 percent of the literature i was given to be reading for several months in just one month.