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who must learn speeches would be smart to do their memorizing during that time of day. If you are a student, you would be wise to schedule your more difficult classes in the afternoon, rather than in the morning. You should also try to do most of your studying in the afternoon, rather than late at night. Many students believe they memorize better while burning the midnight oil because their shortterm recall is better during the wee hours of the morning than in the afternoon. But shortterm memory won’t help them much several days later, when they face the exam.By contrast, we tend to do best on cognitive tasksthings that require the juggling of words and figures in one’s headduring the morning hours. This might be a good time, say, to balance a checkbook.Your manual dexteritythe speed and coordination with which you perform plicated tasks with your handspeaks during the afternoon hours. Such work as carpentry, typing or sewing will be a little easier at this time of day.What about sports? During afternoon and early evening, your coordination is at its peak, and you’re able to react the quickest to an outside stimuluslike a baseball speeding toward you at home plate. Studies have also shown that late in the day, when your body temperature is peaking, you will perceive a physical workout to be easier and less fatiguingwhether it actually is or not. That means you are more likely to work harder during a late afternoon or early evening workout, and therefore benefit more from it. Studies involving swimmers, runners, shotputters and rowing crews have shown consistently that performance is better in the evening than in the morning.In fact, all of your sensestaste, sight, hearing, touch and smellmay be at their keenest during late afternoon and early evening. That could be why dinner usually tastes better to us than breakfast and why night lights irritate us.Even our perception of time changes from hour to hour. Not only does time seem to fly when you’re having fun, but it also seems to fly even faster if you are having that fun in the late afternoon or early evening, when your body temperature is also peaking.While all of us follow the same general pattern of ups and downs, the exact timing varies from person to person. It all depends on how your “biological” day is structuredhow much of a morning or night person you are. The earlier your biological day gets