💤 Why you NEED sleep if you want a 90+ ATAR... (1 Viewer)

[LuqmanA]

If you’ve been grinding late into the night… revising till your eyes burn… only to wake up feeling foggy and forgetting half of what you studied…

There’s a reason.

And it’s not because you didn’t study hard enough.

It’s because your brain doesn’t store learning while you’re awake.

It stores it while you sleep.

See, when you learn something new, it’s temporarily held in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

Think of it like a USB drive. It can only hold so much.

And if you don’t “save” that data (a.k.a. get a full sleep cycle in), it gets wiped.

Literally.

Which means:

That 3-hour study block?

That 20-page exam prep you forced yourself through?

If you stayed up too late and didn't properly sleep, your brain probably threw most of it in the bin.

This isn’t motivational fluff either.

Studies show sleep improves memory consolidation by up to 40%.

So every time you cut your sleep for “one more hour” of revision… you’re not getting ahead.

You’re actually undoing the work you just did.

Here’s the better strategy:

Study hard.

Then give your brain the rest it needs to lock it in.

Every hour of sleep is like hitting save on your hard-earned knowledge.

And the sooner you treat rest as part of your exam strategy — not the thing you sacrifice — the faster everything starts to click.

To your comeback,

Luqman

 

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Innit but the Kay Chung method is clutch