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Crunch time motivation is very high quality and not trivially replicated. So I'd be impressed if you managed to pull this off in practice.
(BTW, I recommend students plan to do things during crunch time by default, or at least experiment with this. You're going to have an extremely high-quality source of motivation if you just wait a while--why not take advantage of it? If you want to work, and you have no imminent deadlines, either work on whatever you feel like working on AutoFocus-style or, if your energy level is high enough, work on some independent project that has no deadline--your opportunity costs are lower this way.)
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Because things learned during crunch time seem to fade from memory much faster.
Well, it's not like it's forbidden to revise stuff after an exam (e.g. using SRS) if you care about it for reasons other than the exam itself.
Fair enough.
Oh no. Now I have a perfect, bulletproof excuse, that I actually buy, for my habit of procrastinating so badly with assignments that I typically end up doing them in a modafinil-powered all nighter on the night before they're due.
John_Maxwell_IV, what have you done?
Note that, in practice, the point at which crunch time begins depends on your estimate of how long it will take you to learn the stuff you haven't learned yet. Depending on my courseload, it would be as long as a month or as short as two weeks.