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Posted in Tests and Exams on May 13th, 2008
Preparing for an open book test is a bit different to a closed book test. The emphasis isn’t on memorising as much - although it’s still worth doing that - but your main focus is on understanding and preparing notes to take into the test.
1. Understand the materials
Your aim is to have a broad understanding [...]
Posted in Tests and Exams on May 8th, 2008
Hint: they’re not as easy as you might think.
My Helpdesk students have an open book test coming up (evil laughter … more evil laughter … maniacal laughter).
I hate to tell you, but open book tests aren’t easy.
I thought might help you to know how I think about open book tests, and why I set them [...]
Posted in Just For Learners, Tests and Exams on May 6th, 2008
What?! OMG!! Oh well, I’ll worry about that when I’ve done all my assignments.
Right?
Wrong. Sorry.
Most of your assignments are due almost at the end of term, which only gives you one week to study before exams. It’s certainly possible to study only for that week, and pass - if you’re very (very) good at [...]
Posted in Tests and Exams on Apr 12th, 2008
My aim is to help you study smarter, not harder. Here’s some simple things you can do that will improve your test and exam performance without studying more. Honest
The day before the test:
Go over all of your notes, skim through the text book and thoroughly review everything.
Pack your bag with everything you’ll need: pens [...]
Posted in Just For Learners, Tests and Exams on Apr 11th, 2008
Previous posts in this series:
1. Know thyself
2. Use it or lose it
Why write study notes:
1. Less to revise:
Textbooks have a lot of information that helps you understand; once you understand, you only need reminders
Your notes will have information that is now second nature to you
Some of [...]
Posted in Just For Learners, Tests and Exams on Apr 8th, 2008
Previous post in this series: 1. Know Thyself.
Now that you know your learning style, the next step is to use it. If you didn’t take the learning style test in part one, here it is again.
Auditory and read/write learners have it easiest in western education settings, which often involve listening, talking, writing and reading text [...]
Posted in Just For Learners, Tests and Exams on Apr 4th, 2008
Test season is upon us again! This is the first in a series of posts to help you study easier, not harder.
The single best thing you can do to study easier is to learn using your own preferred learning style.
Are you visual? Do you learn best from pictures, color and shape?
Maybe you’re auditory - you learn best [...]
