I know! It's always the same RAG clique who came to lectures, trying to drag the rest of us out. Ah, yeah I can imagine how much harder year 2 must be not looking forward to it! (providing I even get there.. haha!) If you don't mind me asking, how did you revise for the end of year exams, like in terms of making notes/reading over lectures?
Well it's not that bad, you just knuckle down and get on with it really, and by this point I find I take things in quicker and am better at filtering what I need to know and how much time I should spend.
I wrote shorthand notes for each lecture, spending maybe 15-20 mins on each one, and was revising a scenario a day. Then with the last couple of days just read through the slides a couple of times quite quickly, seemed to work for me.
Well it's not that bad, you just knuckle down and get on with it really, and by this point I find I take things in quicker and am better at filtering what I need to know and how much time I should spend.
I wrote shorthand notes for each lecture, spending maybe 15-20 mins on each one, and was revising a scenario a day. Then with the last couple of days just read through the slides a couple of times quite quickly, seemed to work for me.
I've found the same actually. Obviously it's helped actually having done this part of the course before but I've found after the first year, even with lectures I missed last year or content I missed, I know what the important information is and what's not important and can take it in much more easily whereas last year I found myself overwhelmed with remembering facts I probably didn't need to know.
My way of working is probably much slower than yours though. I've found I learn most effectively by writing a LOT of notes which combine the lecture slides, lecture notes and extra reading. So far for this module I've managed to make a word document containing notes and diagrams and it's over 100 pages long and not even finished yet.
My way of working is probably much slower than yours though. I've found I learn most effectively by writing a LOT of notes which combine the lecture slides, lecture notes and extra reading. So far for this module I've managed to make a word document containing notes and diagrams and it's over 100 pages long and not even finished yet.
This is basically what I do I get the PBL outcomes and edit everybody's work into the document meaning it actually properly answers the outcome (occasionally this involves re-doing a whole outcome ) and add in all bits of other stuff as well. It seems to have worked for me.....so far
This is basically what I do I get the PBL outcomes and edit everybody's work into the document meaning it actually properly answers the outcome (occasionally this involves re-doing a whole outcome ) and add in all bits of other stuff as well. It seems to have worked for me.....so far
Yup. I've found simply reading things separately, such as reading the relevant areas of physiology sepearately to reading the lecture notes means you get different bits of knowledge and there's no structure to it whereas if you combine things it feels more structured and organised and things connect a little more.
Has anyone else happened upon this idiot in the D&D forum? I don't think I've been so angry at someones views on healthcare - it makes it much worse that he's a student from my med school
He's banned now anyway, so it's entirely possible that it was all *******s.
I actually did some coursework today. Madness, I tells you.
I've hit a spot of writer's block in my portfolio essay It started off fine, and I wrote 500 words without having to think too much, and now I'm stuck. Ahhh well, got a month and 12 days to get it sorted