Oh, I doubt I'll change my ways. It'd be nice if I did, but I can't see it genuinely happening. Exams are terrible for me though, so I'll be sitting with a book in my face for about 2 weeks prior to it. Going into an exam without preparing for it is my personal idea of hell. I'll probably need to console a crying friend after the exam too, so I can't really be in a stressed state by the end of it.
Pro tip. Snap out of that right now. Really.
Exams are not that big a hassle. You
know how to write good stuff on the fly and in coherent English because you do it every assignment. You
know your basic stuff that you need or you wouldn't be knocking up good grades in last-minute-procrastinated assignments. You also know (I suspect) that merely sticking your face in a book for two weeks before an exam is basically no help at all.
Here's what I did for revision (in both of the 2.3 degrees I got): starting six months out from exams, pull together in note form everything you need - that takes a couple of months given there's probably other stuff to do too. Four months out go through the list, and CROSS OFF EVERYTHING YOU ALREADY KNOW. That's the key bit. Most people waste all their revision time revising stuff they know already (which is a complete waste of time), what you want to do is revise the stuff you
don't know. That trims it by a factor of five probably. Then go through that and plan out what you are going to revise when. Do some sample essays if you want - whatever works for you. But where you want to be be two weeks before the exam is you know everything you need to, and you've got it in long-term memory so it isn't going to vanish come the exam.
Now basically anything you've got in any sort of long-term memory is going to last a month at least. You try to bang it into short term memory you're looking at between 15 seconds and a few days.
So what I did both times is compress all the stuff I
didn't know progressively (by learning the big chunks that I'd missed) on to a single sheet of paper about two weeks before the exam. And then take two weeks off - chilling, doing museums, watching cricket, whatever takes your fancy. Then revise that single sheet of paper on the morning of the exam - have it in your pocket, chuck it away just as you enter the exam room. That's the best you can do.
But if you think you are learning anything from sticking your nose in a book for two weeks before an exam just because everyone else does, you are wrong - mostly you are just going over stuff you already know and it is a waste of time.
