Posted in Learning on May 13th, 2008 No Comments »
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 Learning on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
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 Miscellaneous on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
A great post on keeping focus from Leo of Zen Habits: 16 ways to keep a razor-sharp focus at work - good for students, too.
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Posted in Learning on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
