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A study had a group of students being given a series of math

problems with some tips on how to solve these. They were told
that there was an easier way or shortcut to solve the problems
that they should discover during the process. They were tested 12
hours after the training. Among the students who were not allowed
to sleep before the math test, only 20percent discovered the
shortcut. However, those students who were allowed eight hours of
sleep performed much better. Sixty percent of them found the
shortcut. In a study of 3,000students by Wolfson and Carskadon
using a behavior survey with self-reported grades, students with
higher grades reported more sleep and earlier bedtimes on school
nights and reduced weekend delays of sleep schedules than
students with lower grades. Other studies showed similar results.

(Philippine inquirer. (2015). Students need more sleep.)

Staying up late to cram for an early exam may not be doing

college students any good, according to a new study focused on
college students and their sleep patterns. The study, published
Monday in the journal Scientific Reports, says college students
who did not go to bed or wake up at consistent times every day
were more likely to have lower grades. For the study, 61 students
from Harvard College kept online diaries of their sleep schedules
for 30 days. Researchers identified two groups: regular sleepers,
or those who went to bed and woke up about the same time every
day, and irregular sleepers, who had different sleep patterns
every day. There were several differences between regular and
irregular sleepers, including significant differences in grade
point averages. Using a unique scoring index from zero to 100 to
calculate a student's sleep regularity, students with very
irregular sleep patterns were given lower scores close to zero;
while more regular sleepers were given higher scores close to
100.
(Knight, V. (2017). Study links college students' grades to sleep
schedules.)

Studies have shown that, in the last few decades, children

(and therefore, adults) have been sleeping less and less. Adults
whose parents enforced strict bedtime rules have been found to
function more efficiently at work and sleep more than hour more
than those who grew up with no rules on when to sleep. Other
research showed that if you deprive a healthy adult of sleep for
six straight days, his body chemistry will resemble that of
someone literally twice his age, and it will take him a full week
to get his metabolism back to normal.
(Velasco, B. (The Philippine Star). (2015). This sleepdeprived
nation.)

According to ( Kenia Hukom, Dennis Madrigal ) Academic

stress is a certain level of academic-related demands that exceed
the students' adaptive capabilities. Related to this is coping
strategies, which is a mindful effort to endure the stress. Thus,
the descriptive-correlational research determined the
associations among the demographic variables, the level of
academic stress, and the extent of coping strategies. Academic
Stress Scale and COPE Inventory standardized tests, were used
among sixty-seven Filipino high school students with single-
parents of a Catholic school. The data were statistically
analyzed using Mean, Standard Deviation, Pearson r, and Spearman
rank correlation. As a whole, their academic stress is low with
no significant relationship between academic level and single-
parents' educational level.  However, a moderate level of
academic stress was found with a significant relationship between
sex and family monthly income. The overall coping strategies is
great with a significant relationship between family monthly
income. However, there is no significant relationship between
coping strategies and academic level, sex, and single-parents'
educational level. Finally, no significant relationship was found
between academic stress and coping strategies. The study
recommends designing an enhanced stress management program for
high school students.

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