university-exams =)
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29 Jun 2010, 21:05
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I'm currently studying law, therefore I need to pass 3 exams which will be starting in around a month. As it's my first semester I don't really know what to expect about these mentioned exams.
Therefore I have a few questions for the students out there, regarding learning habits and stuff like that. would be cool if you could answer some of these following questions and tell me about your own experience.
- how much time did you invest to prepare yourself for several exams?
- how did you manage to learn for several exams with a shitload of topics in a short period of time?
- did you follow any specific plans and principles while learning the stuff you need?
- did you experience some habits which helped you to learn extra effective? (something like learning at night / books that helped you quite a lot / specific sleeping patern)
that's all I can think of for now. it's not like I'm aiming for the best marks in my first year at university, it's rather a period of time where I'd like to get used to university with all the frills, in addition I'm still sooo lazy.
cheers and thanks in advance, some chicks are posted bellow to help your brain to create some serious answers! =)
Therefore I have a few questions for the students out there, regarding learning habits and stuff like that. would be cool if you could answer some of these following questions and tell me about your own experience.
- how much time did you invest to prepare yourself for several exams?
- how did you manage to learn for several exams with a shitload of topics in a short period of time?
- did you follow any specific plans and principles while learning the stuff you need?
- did you experience some habits which helped you to learn extra effective? (something like learning at night / books that helped you quite a lot / specific sleeping patern)
that's all I can think of for now. it's not like I'm aiming for the best marks in my first year at university, it's rather a period of time where I'd like to get used to university with all the frills, in addition I'm still sooo lazy.
cheers and thanks in advance, some chicks are posted bellow to help your brain to create some serious answers! =)
u should expect what u learned in the lecture, simple that
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Then i chill the day before every exam.
Depends on the exam, if its a big course, 4-5 days (in exam) smaller one 2 days. you should have them all studied before the exam period tho
- how did you manage to learn for several exams with a shitload of topics in a short period of time?
coffee, redbull and allnighters
- did you follow any specific plans and principles while learning the stuff you need?
have everything studied/looked at at least once before the exams actually start
- did you experience some habits which helped you to learn extra effective? (something like learning at night / books that helped you quite a lot / specific sleeping patern)
no, different for every person
good luck
For me it always helped to write everything down by hand, even if I'm just copying everything word by word. Somehow I can remember most stuff then already :->
I got my first exam in exactly 4 weeks, followed by another 3 the week after. Two of them are rather hard, two are quite easy. So for the hard ones I'll start studying tomorrow actually and for the easier ones I'll just have a look at the stuff 2-3 days before the exam.
Gotta pass them though, last 4 exams of the bachelor and if I fail I gotta retake the courses next summer, so half a year of doing nothing! Can't even start the master yet then :-/
Basically:
- spend time on studying as much as you can
- develop your own learning method that suits you the best through experience
- check out for old tests about the same subject and practice them
Make an abstract/summary. Takes a lot of time but it's worth it.
If you have a list with many items that you need to be able to recite, and you have a hard time memorizing it, take the first letter of every item and make a word/phrase.