This seems like "What your teachers would say" or something. Nope, actually. Most of us study for good marks. Why do we need good marks? To be able to get into a good university. What will that do? Get you good job opportunities.
The thing is, if you keep your goal for just money, you're going to get exhausted trying to work hard. This will make you so tired internally because you're looking at long-term goals.
When we look at long-term goals, we often get tired of them eventually and go back to the way our life was before.
For example, if you write novels just for money and are not having even the tiniest bit of desire for writing, you can't write a good novel. Why? It involved not only good grammar, a nice vocabulary, plot, good character development, but also your emotions.
An AI cannot write novels. Even if they managed to do it, it doesn't involve emotions.
But studying ONLY for knowledge is also impossible unless you turned out to be a book character and your life is designed by some Author.
What about doing both in a balanced way? That's better. Unfortunately, most of us will still value money and status a little more than knowledge. I guess it's fine. But you can try to keep the balance. If study became your only priority, you wouldn't like to perform it at all.
Now I'll give some fair points which may convince you upon why we should not only study for marks but knowledge as well-
First of all, your soul will grow. If you are only memorizing stuff, you can't experience it better. I know some things are needed to be memorized, For example, certain formulas we study in maths, chemical reactions, etc.
Still, try to understand them first. We memorized English alphabets in our childhood because we didn't know how to clearly understand them. Like so, We used to think that "A for Apple" and this means it cannot mean something like "Aeroplane", "Air" or something.
But right now, I think we are mature enough to understand things first. Memorize, but understand first.
Second of all, If you only follow marks, you're likely to gain less knowledge. This will give you half knowledge on a topic. Which may be harmful to you in the future.
But, if you follow my advice and try to understand the chapter, you'll not only get knowledge but have a good percentage too.
Thirdly, Memorization limits your optimist. Your vision won't be clear on the topic so you won't have room for exploring and expanding your thoughts. You won't use your imagination. What's the use of studying in a good school or college if you're just memorizing.
Though, I don't hate this method. I just think it's not effective enough sometimes and it makes us dependent on this particular technique so, even if you grow physically, there's no mental growth. And both of them have their importance.
Memorizing is also an art. Why? Not everyone can do it. And yes, I didn't mean it's impossible. If you try you can do it.
Last but not least, If you keep expecting more marks you'll always be an average scorer. Why? Because you won't be satisfied with it even after achieving 90 percent marks. This might result in overwork and will make you even more frustrated.
Knowing doesn't mean you're the wisest person in the world. There's a difference between theory and practical.
Reading on how to survive a fire accident will not help you much. If a real fire breaks out in your office or school, what will you do? That you can only know by experiencing it. Of course, knowing the facts is important too, but life-saving skills cannot be taught in books as properly as you'll learn it when it actually happens.
Now let's take a simple example this time.
Suppose you're doing maths. To learn the formulas and different operations, you are not going to read on about who invented it, when did it happen, how did it happen, etc. It will give knowledge but not the formula or operation itself. How to learn it? You need to practice it on some questions first. That's how you'll learn a formula. Now if you say I could've suggested memorizing. Why I didn't do that? Because when you'll practice it with a lot of questions, you'll automatically memorize it.
Practice makes a person perfect.
We know that right? Even in bad habits, you need practice so that you don't even need to think much while performing it.
Like so, it might not be easy for a person who watches television for a half-hour and one day watched 5 hours nonstop. At least it will affect his or her eyes and they'll have fatigue.
This may not be the case with a person who watches television 5 hours a day.
Why? Because it's normal. Their body has adapted this habit completely. Though, adapting this habit doesn't mean you won't have myopia.
If you do 10 questions every day on any subject, you'll get used to it. So, even when you think about not doing it just for today, you'll feel like," I do it every day. So I'll do it today too."
But you cannot expect this "miracle" to happen within 1 hour.
Even bad habits don't form this fast. It takes months and even years of practice to be able to perform a habit. Regardless of it being bad or good.
So, when you're in the process of performing a habit, try not to skip in between. If you do, That motivation is gone for a few days or even weeks.
Once you fail because of skipping the habit, you'll feel demotivated. Not everyone can start it all over again.
I suggest you start it again if you couldn't do it. Do it from where you left it off from. Don't hide, don't give up.
Do not overwork yourself because of good habits, though.
Come on, overworking is not a great idea. It'll exhaust you very soon and may even harm your mental health.
You should know when you are supposed to start and when you are supposed to stop.
Even if you do 10 questions or 5 questions a day, you'll still reach approximately 300 questions or 150 questions in just a month.
Cool right?