[mjrules]

Hi there,

as the thread title says, I'm in my first year, and have just completed all my lab reports for the year. I want to spend about two months now doing solid revision before my exams start- in the first year we have multiple choice exams.

I'm taking four units:
a) Microbiology and Biochemistry
b) Anatomy and Physiology
c)Cellular Chemistry and Genetics
d) foundation skills in the biosciences (includes Cell Biology etc)

So for each unit there will be 25 MCQs per sub-unit so 50 questions it total for 50 questions for a, 50 questions for b and so on.

What I want really is advice on how to study for MCQs effectively- all my life I've been used to standard written answers, and so I'm unsure as to how to go through my lecture notes but in a way that'd be more suitable for MCQ style exams....I have all the essential textbooks too for each unit but apparently the first year is really about understanding lecture content rather than going through a 1000 page textbook.


Thanks in advance for any helpful replies-appreciate it!

[Retrodiction]

Microbiology & biochemistry? What an odd combination for a module...

[Ayshizzle]

(Original post by mjrules)
Hi there,

as the thread title says, I'm in my first year, and have just completed all my lab reports for the year. I want to spend about two months now doing solid revision before my exams start- in the first year we have multiple choice exams.

I'm taking four units:
a) Microbiology and Biochemistry
b) Anatomy and Physiology
c)Cellular Chemistry and Genetics
d) foundation skills in the biosciences (includes Cell Biology etc)

So for each unit there will be 25 MCQs per sub-unit so 50 questions it total for 50 questions for a, 50 questions for b and so on.

What I want really is advice on how to study for MCQs effectively- all my life I've been used to standard written answers, and so I'm unsure as to how to go through my lecture notes but in a way that'd be more suitable for MCQ style exams....I have all the essential textbooks too for each unit but apparently the first year is really about understanding lecture content rather than going through a 1000 page textbook.


Thanks in advance for any helpful replies-appreciate it!

2 months?! Wow you are dedicated, I did about a weeks worth of revision lol.

I'd say your best bit is to go through everything, see what you don't understand or aren't sure about and then sort through that first. Then go through the rest, and learn all the bitty details (like length of an actin fibril etc).

I changed all my lecture notes into more of a bullet- point style which made it easier to learn (and made it seem like there was less too).

[thatslogik]

(Original post by mjrules)
Hi there,

as the thread title says, I'm in my first year, and have just completed all my lab reports for the year. I want to spend about two months now doing solid revision before my exams start- in the first year we have multiple choice exams.

I'm taking four units:
a) Microbiology and Biochemistry
b) Anatomy and Physiology
c)Cellular Chemistry and Genetics
d) foundation skills in the biosciences (includes Cell Biology etc)

So for each unit there will be 25 MCQs per sub-unit so 50 questions it total for 50 questions for a, 50 questions for b and so on.

What I want really is advice on how to study for MCQs effectively- all my life I've been used to standard written answers, and so I'm unsure as to how to go through my lecture notes but in a way that'd be more suitable for MCQ style exams....I have all the essential textbooks too for each unit but apparently the first year is really about understanding lecture content rather than going through a 1000 page textbook.


Thanks in advance for any helpful replies-appreciate it!

im pretty sure universities asses their course differently, i knew this before and its definitely true now because you seem to have MCQ's... in summer! your so lucky. in my uni i have now 8 units to revise for and 6 of them will be essay style answers, and so from the January exams and what i have learnt is effective (for me anyway) is:
1. to have a look at the lecture slides first (not too long, enough to understand)
2. then make notes using the slides and the lecutre replay system
3. revise from those notes.
4. when producing notes, not to go through a 1000 pages, but to write down anything you didn't know after learning those slides that you deem important.