better sleep can mean better grades at college
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Many students give up sleep to get good grades, but research shows that students who sleep more get better grades.\n\nIt is no surprise! Teens and young adults are a pretty sleep-deprived group now a days\n\nThere are lots of distractions in the modern world that lead people to stay up late in the night. For students, though, there is also homework. On the night before a big exam or a major paper, many students put in a lot of extra study time in order to prepare. \n\nWhat is going on here?\n\nSleep is important for many reasons. It helps memory. You consolidate memories during sleep. Sleep also helps you focus and sustain attention. Sleep also gives you energy to be active. You are much more likely to be a passive learner when you are tired. And you learn less when you are passive then when you actively engage with new material.\n\nWhat does this mean?\n\nFirst off, this study reinforces the general observation that teens and young adults are not sleeping enough. Getting even an extra 30 minutes of sleep a night would be a huge benefit for this group.\n\nSecond, it means that students need to try to spread their work out over longer periods of time. It is an age-old tradition to cram for exams and to finish papers at the last minute. There are lots of good reasons to want to avoid cramming. http://sprayablesleep.com/signup\n - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
