Bad Study Habits
The most common study habits (rereading, highlighting, cramming) feel productive precisely because they're easy. Real learning feels harder. Swapping passive habits for retrieval practice and spacing is the single biggest academic upgrade most students can make.
Cramming
Worth breakingCompressing all your studying into the night or two before the exam.
Highlighting everything
Worth breakingPainting the textbook yellow: marking so much that the marks stop meaning anything.
No study schedule
Worth breakingStudying whenever it happens to happen, which reliably means late, rushed, or not at all.
Not taking notes
It dependsSitting through lectures empty-handed, trusting that understanding in the moment will still be there at exam time.
Passive re-reading
Worth breakingReading notes and textbook chapters over and over, hoping repetition turns into memory.
Skipping class
Worth breakingMissing lectures with the standing promise to catch up from slides or recordings later.
Studying in bed
It dependsDoing your reading, notes, or laptop work from under the covers.
Studying with your phone
Worth breakingKeeping your phone next to you while studying: each glance small, the aggregate devastating.
Breaking a habit sticks when you track the replacement.
Decide what you'll do instead, then track it daily. A visible streak turns one good decision into a system.
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