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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The less college students sleep, the worse their grades, study finds

There are countless reasons to stay up late in college. Here's one good reason to go to bed.

The less a student sleeps every night, the lower their grade-point average will be, according to a two-year study of the sleep habits of more than 600 college freshmen that was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers found that every lost hour of average nightly sleep at the start of an academic term was associated with a 0.07-point drop in a student's end-of-term GPA. When a student slept less than six hours a night, the effect of lost sleep on a student's grades was even more pronounced... WaPo

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