Students Achieve Poorer Grades When Classes Don't Sync with Biological Clocks

Might it be possible to blame your college grades on whether you are a natural night owl or an early bird? Possibly to some extent, according to the results of a two year study involving nearly 15,000 students. The study, by the University of California at Berkeley’s Benjamin Smarr, Ph.D., and Northeastern Illinois University’s Aaron Schirmer, Ph.D., found that students perform less well academically when their class times don’t sync with their natural biological clocks. This m