Sleep expert David Earnest often tells college students that a good night’s sleep is important for academic success. Not that they listen to him. Earnest is a professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine. He explains that so-called “all nighters,” in which students spend all night studying instead of sleeping, are not effective or healthy. “The sort of common approach for college studentsis to wait until the last minute in terms of preparing or studying for an exam -- do all nighters, especially before final exams. Because that way, you can cram all of your studying into a very short period of time." “But in the process obviously that compromises sleep and unfortunately it’s counterproductive.” College students often wait until the last minute to review information and study for an exam. They may stay up all night ahead of the test. Research shows, however, it is not worth it. Earnest explains that people who stay up all night do not remember as much about what they read or studied. There is also some evidence that people even suffer temporary drops in their IQ, or intelligence quotient, he said. If a student must prepare for an exam at the last minute, Earnest suggests studying until about 2 a.m., sleeping for four hours, and then reviewing the material again early in the morning.
Title: Sleep Expert Tells Students All-Night Study Hurts Performance
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1953/all_night_studying.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Sleep Expert Tells Students All-Night Study Hurts Performance' data-article-id='2470'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10396'>Sleep expert David Earnest often tells college students that a good night’s sleep is important for academic success.</span> <span data-start-time='10396' data-end-time='13438'>Not that they listen to him.</span> <span data-start-time='13438' data-end-time='18542'>Earnest is a professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine.</span> <span data-start-time='18542' data-end-time='31667'>He explains that so-called “all nighters,” in which students spend all night studying instead of sleeping, are not effective or healthy.</span> <span data-start-time='31667' data-end-time='43042'>“The sort of common approach for college studentsis to wait until the last minute in terms of preparing or studying for an exam -- do all nighters, especially before final exams.</span> <span data-start-time='43042' data-end-time='48479'>Because that way, you can cram all of your studying into a very short period of time."</span> <span data-start-time='48479' data-end-time='57000'>“But in the process obviously that compromises sleep and unfortunately it’s counterproductive.”</span> <span data-start-time='57000' data-end-time='64521'>College students often wait until the last minute to review information and study for an exam.</span> <span data-start-time='64521' data-end-time='68854'>They may stay up all night ahead of the test.</span> <span data-start-time='68854' data-end-time='74104'>Research shows, however, it is not worth it.</span> <span data-start-time='74104' data-end-time='83542'>Earnest explains that people who stay up all night do not remember as much about what they read or studied.</span> <span data-start-time='83542' data-end-time='93917'>There is also some evidence that people even suffer temporary drops in their IQ, or intelligence quotient, he said.</span> <span data-start-time='93917' data-end-time='111250'>If a student must prepare for an exam at the last minute, Earnest suggests studying until about 2 a.m., sleeping for four hours, and then reviewing the material again early in the morning.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' 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