Sunday, December 20th, 2009
What is the best way to study questions that a prof has given for an exam?
So, I have a midterm on Friday and I am in the process of doing questions but I wanted to know what was the best way to study the questions? Any ideas? Thanks for any help.
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December 21st, 2009 at 4:14 am
OK, I’m probably stating the obvious, but… answer them?
Is this an essay exam where you’ve been given a long list of possible questions? If that’s the case, you might not have time to write out answers to all of them (if you do, go ahead, it won’t hurt). But what you can do is do some prewriting for all of them: brainstorm some ideas, writing down words and concepts that you would want to cover in your answer and looking up important information that you would need to include. Then organize your ideas into a rough outline for each one. Read back over your outlines the morning of the exam and tweak them if you have new ideas.
If you have time, you might want to pick a couple questions that you think are most likely to appear or that you would have most difficulty with and actually write those out. You don’t need to memorize your answer; if you just write it out once, chances are, you’ll remember enough of what you had to say to write something similar or even better a second time.
If it’s more like a short answer study guide, then just do the whole thing. Try to do the whole thing first without looking up answers and mark the ones you’re less sure about. Then look those up in the book and correct your own paper. You’ll learn it better by trying on your own and then correcting yourself than if you just look everything up the first time.
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