Drink water before exam, improve your grades. ||
Drinking a glass of water could help you do better in exams,
researchers have suggested.
A new study found that students who took a drink, such as
water before taking an exam did up to 10% better than those who did not the
difference between a grade. It is unclear why a drink should help, but one
theory suggests that information flows more freely between brain cells when
they are well hydrated. Drinking water may also calm nerves, while those who
became thirsty during the test could be more easily distracted, the Daily Mail
reported. The study, which looked at hundreds of university students, compared
whether they took a drink into the exam with their marks. The students' overall
academic ability was then factored in. Those who arrived with drinks did around
5% better on average. But the improvement was even more marked among those just
starting out at university, whose results improved by as much as 10%.