Burning the Midnight Oil: Studying All Night Before Exams

Studying late night is neither advisable nor completely avoidable

This is entirely against the theory of “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise”. Waking up the whole night to study for exams is sure to affect your health. Late night study is less productive as the mind loses concentration late at night. Lack of sleep affects your daily life. It weakens the strength of the students and you can lose focus during the examination. It will also lead to serious memory impairment, thus making no use of the hard work and study. 

What does Science sayResearch has suggested that sleep and good memory are bedfellows. Burning midnight oil harms more than it serves. The researchers say that at least a good night sleep within 30 hours is needed to remember a new task later. Science has also said that teen brains work most effectively at night. However, the scientists concluded that a good night's sleep, which includes both slow-wave and REM (Rapid eye movement) sleep, produces the most effective performances.

What matters is not late night studying or early dawn studying just before the exams, but it’s about how you benefit yourself through any type of reading. So long as it benefits you, you can continue with the particular style of studying, but one should take care that his/her health is not deteriorated as health is the supreme here. You can’t do anything you want to do if you have a poor health. And the best way one can rely on is to habituate a continuous and regular studying.