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 Learning on Apr 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
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: [...]
Posted in Learning on Apr 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
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 Learning on Apr 8th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
