well here we are at exam time again!!
I do wonder why on earth I insist on putting myself through all this - it's crap and it makes me grumpy and I don't like it
It's the constant worry, makes my clumsyness worse and of course I can't remember stuff which is the whole point of revising.
I got the highest marks in my year for last years exams. First time I've evr done well in exams and first exams I've sat with knowledge of dyspraxia. It does make a difference.
wish it was 3 weeks time and they'd all be over oh well
just venting
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congratulations on your last year exam results. i also hate exams and find the whole experience depressing but i to did well in my last set of exams, (not as well as you) nuch better than i've ever done in the past. that is exept for multiple choice, i love multiple choice and the last time i done a multiple choice test for my level 2 english, i got the highest score in my college 
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when i was a school i was almost always in bottom few, i can remember only ever getting above 50%, a very few times. things are much better now and even thou i wish i could do better i still get very descent grades.
.when i was a school i was almost always in bottom few, i can remember only ever getting above 50%, a very few times. things are much better now and even thou i wish i could do better i still get very descent grades.
yep the horroble time of year where we are so busy preparing for exams
I have 2 exams in the week of the 22 may
stop worrying you wont be able to sleep properly this is why I am still awake at nearly 2am because I have an oral presentation tomorrow morning and I am a bit sceared as I have been naughty and left doing all the preparation until a few days ago.
as my mum and dad always say to me just to the best you can do
Emma
I have 2 exams in the week of the 22 may
stop worrying you wont be able to sleep properly this is why I am still awake at nearly 2am because I have an oral presentation tomorrow morning and I am a bit sceared as I have been naughty and left doing all the preparation until a few days ago.
as my mum and dad always say to me just to the best you can do
Emma
There can be the risk of burning out on revision. There are different strategies for revising and it might be best trying different ones to see which is most effective for you. Some people just remember everything, whereas I always had great difficulty. Good luck to everyone going through revision at the moment. Perhaps some of you can recommend revision strategies you use?
I'm currrently revising for the final exams of my BSc (but hopefully not my last at university)
I hate revising. I find it a real problem to get information to stay in my head for the duration of an exam. Lots of my friends seem to be able to learn vast quantities, quickly for short periods. I tend to find that I can either learn something that I'll remember years later, but it takes so much longer.
It feels like cheating to know something just long enough to get a qualification in it and then be unable to hack it after getting the qual anyway. That can't end well for anyone can it? :S
Does anyone else have trouble working out what they need to know? Since coming to university I've had problems working out what I do and do not have to know for a given module (It was easy at school, it was whatever had been covered in the lessons)
I hate revising. I find it a real problem to get information to stay in my head for the duration of an exam. Lots of my friends seem to be able to learn vast quantities, quickly for short periods. I tend to find that I can either learn something that I'll remember years later, but it takes so much longer.
It feels like cheating to know something just long enough to get a qualification in it and then be unable to hack it after getting the qual anyway. That can't end well for anyone can it? :S
Does anyone else have trouble working out what they need to know? Since coming to university I've had problems working out what I do and do not have to know for a given module (It was easy at school, it was whatever had been covered in the lessons)
hey everyone,
reading this makes me happy to have finished uni... HA!
...aren't I naughty... 
I am someone who has really very significant troubles committing anything to memory but there are plenty of tricks we can still use.
I find that there are lot of ways to overcome these problems, from using mnemonic strategies to creating your own visual stories that contain key hints for you to remember other things
For example I had a hard time remembering much about general adaptation syndrome GAS (and kept forgetting the name)
So I imagined a GAS station with an army general coming with his car (so this keyed me for the beginning word – general… and this was all I needed to remember the rest of the acronym). Within this topic I had to remember stages of a stress response which was alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. So in my image of a GAS station, along with the General I had a fire alarm going off and smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe of the General’s car! … I guess I could have even had the French resistance coming to find the General!! Because I had a strong theoretical understanding of the topic, these word cues were enough for me to be able to get the correct words out in a short amount of time.
The example here may sound a bit simple but its just an example of using a visual strategy. So one image in my head had connections to about 5 pieces of information. The trick is to assimilate the information in a rich way and also in an efficient way. The more connections you make in you head and the more times you access these connections, the richer these connections become… and obviously it’s then easier it is to remember things in exams!
liz- sorry to hear about your biology exam .
reading this makes me happy to have finished uni... HA!
...aren't I naughty... I am someone who has really very significant troubles committing anything to memory but there are plenty of tricks we can still use.
I find that there are lot of ways to overcome these problems, from using mnemonic strategies to creating your own visual stories that contain key hints for you to remember other things
For example I had a hard time remembering much about general adaptation syndrome GAS (and kept forgetting the name)
So I imagined a GAS station with an army general coming with his car (so this keyed me for the beginning word – general… and this was all I needed to remember the rest of the acronym). Within this topic I had to remember stages of a stress response which was alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. So in my image of a GAS station, along with the General I had a fire alarm going off and smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe of the General’s car! … I guess I could have even had the French resistance coming to find the General!! Because I had a strong theoretical understanding of the topic, these word cues were enough for me to be able to get the correct words out in a short amount of time.
The example here may sound a bit simple but its just an example of using a visual strategy. So one image in my head had connections to about 5 pieces of information. The trick is to assimilate the information in a rich way and also in an efficient way. The more connections you make in you head and the more times you access these connections, the richer these connections become… and obviously it’s then easier it is to remember things in exams!
liz- sorry to hear about your biology exam .
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
"Normal refers to someone who hasn’t had enough tests!"
"Normal refers to someone who hasn’t had enough tests!"
Wierd, I can remember the general adaption syndrome from my alevels four years ago. Probably because it's one of the things I tend to bring up when arguing about overpopulation (If I recall GAS is a problem where we have a stressor that cannot be resolved quickly, because we're adapted for a fight or flight response and the adrenaline & noradrenaline released supress our immune system if sustained over an extended period. We're also adapted such that seeing too many people generates a stress response, in combination we have a problem) Now I've got that memonic in my head I'll probably take it's secrets to my grave :P
It's such a shame it's guarnateed not to come up on the exam
It's such a shame it's guarnateed not to come up on the exam
I do have trouble discerning exactly what is within a module's remit.
I revise within umpteen spider diagrams all in different colours - pretty and then I learn what the picture looks like. nice study lady at uni seggested it and it seems to work. I'm also very strict about only doing 1 hour at a time and having a breal and I'm not doing any in the evenings because my brain is tired and it scares me if I forget something eeven breifly.
I'm also keeping up my social whirl ( not !) I go to a salsa class on a Tuesday. The people are really nice and I'm hopeless but I'm concentrating so hard on where my feet should be I forget everything else!! Godd therapy for me. And then we have a beer after
I should be at it now so I'd better go!
I revise within umpteen spider diagrams all in different colours - pretty and then I learn what the picture looks like. nice study lady at uni seggested it and it seems to work. I'm also very strict about only doing 1 hour at a time and having a breal and I'm not doing any in the evenings because my brain is tired and it scares me if I forget something eeven breifly.
I'm also keeping up my social whirl ( not !) I go to a salsa class on a Tuesday. The people are really nice and I'm hopeless but I'm concentrating so hard on where my feet should be I forget everything else!! Godd therapy for me. And then we have a beer after
I should be at it now so I'd better go!