How to study, write and learn from multiple choice exams
by University of Victoria's Counselling Services
Often students anticipate their first multiple choice exam to be simply a matter of recognising true statements. However, experience with these exams shows students that they are often asked to do more than just recognise textbook material.
Multiple choice questions require fine distinctions...... >Read More
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Study Skills: Lecture Hall Courses
by Anik Singal
In your lower level courses, you will usually find yourself in a lecture hall sharing your class time with anywhere from 50 (if you are lucky) to 1,000 other students. These types of general requirement courses needed in most majors are known to be very large.
In my experience, I have found most students are excited about lecture...... >Read More
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University and College Exam Survival Tips
Preparation
Go to class!
Stay awake in class. Do whatever it takes - pinch yourself, chew gum, sit at the front of the classroom.
Take notes in class. How detailed the notes should be depends on the class and teacher. At least write down the key ideas.
Plan ahead. Know when you have time to study, and use that time.
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Study Skills for College and University Tests and Exams
from UWO Student Development Centre's Learning Skills Services
Prepare for Class:
Read the recommended text pages.
Some students like to do a fairly quick reading before class, and then after class they make their study notes from the text. Other students will read and make notes before they go to class. Try both options to see which works...... >Read More
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Essay exam study skills in college and university
You may often be asked in college to take essay exams. In certain ways, the same principles for writing good out-of-class essays apply to writing good in-class essays as well.
For example, both out-of-class and -in-class essays are more successful when you:
take into consideration your purpose, audience and information;
develop a thesis...... >Read More
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Study Skills: Ace Your Computing Science Courses
Top 5 VIRTUAL WORLD Tips
Have your logic thought out and written down before starting to write programming code.
Write code in modules, thoroughly testing each before integrating them all together.
Consider special cases when testing your code.
Put brief, but informative, comments throughout your code.
Always allow plenty of time for...... >Read More
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How to choose where to study (college or university)
You may not realize what an incredible impact the school you choose will have on your life. Perhaps you do not realize it, but you can change your mind.
So here a few things that I learned during my time at Queen's University that you may find helpful to keep in mind when deciding on a school.
Just because your significant other... >Read More
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