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Are you a short-term thinker?

This video explains how learners can calculate their tendency to procrastinate, based on their previous test outcomes.

This video will help you to recognise your tendency to procrastinate.

Procrastination: The action of delaying or postponing things that should be done.

Use the table you have made in the previous exercise. The video explains how you can calculate your scores, indicating whether or not you are susceptible to procrastination. If the answer is yes, it is extra useful to make a planning for your studies. We will tell you more about this in next activity (“How and why to make a plan”).

Please share your scores, but above all your conclusions!

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