Can Less Sleep Lead to Bad Grades? Here's What New Study Says

First-year college students who participated in the study slept for around 6.5 hours each night.

College students who get less sleep on a daily basis are more likely to get bad grades, says a new study.

The Big Point: The study conducted on first-year college students in the United States, titled Nightly Sleep Duration Predicts Grade Point Average in the First Year of College, published in the PNAS journal stated:

“Lower average nightly sleep early in the academic term predicted lower end-of-term GPA. Every hour of lost total average nightly sleep was associated with a 0.07 reduction in end-of-term GPA.”