Cramming uni subjects?

[PP34]

Basically I've been terrible with organisation since starting uni, and have already mentioned in other threads my lack of motivation relating to my course.

Anyway, have three exams in the next week and a bit, haven't done a great deal all semester and marks are once again ordinary. Need to basically get 50% in each exam, all formula based, but nothing seems overly hard just a matter of remembering and applying things properly.

Anyone ever been in this sort of situation and been able to do anything specific to pass? I've done alright in previous semesters cramming but I think I got pretty lucky with multi choice etc.

 

[Golden_6]

Always worked for me. I could start studying a day of two before the exam and with the help of revision lectures and hints from teachers, could usually manage around a 70-75% each time.

Terrible strategy for long term retention though. As soon as the exam was over, I would essentially lose all the content but I'm not overly concerned with that.

 

[the_interloper]

I would re-do all the tute problems and whenever I had to check the text/lecture notes for a formula or theory I'd write it on a sheet of paper, and keep doing the same for past exams. Then at the end, in theory I'd have all of the stuff I didn't know on the sheet of paper. I'd then write it out neat and have my notes to study while going into the exam.

 

[rippersnipper]

My first exam is in a week and I've been studying for it since thursday. Just going over the lecture notes and writing them down.

 

[t_94]

Try and get your hands on notes from people from past years who have done well if you can, then rewrite them adding your own knowledge.

 

[dales.girl38]

Anyone ever been in this sort of situation and been able to do anything specific to pass?

You are describing about 90% of uni students. It's what we do.

 

[WCErevival]

Half the students dont go to any lectures and just wing it through. You just go over past exam papers to see the stuff that will be in it and revise that.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

You are describing about 90% of uni students. It's what we do.

Took me a semester to learn. First semester year 1. Went to every lecture, tutorial and answered all questions prescribed.

Then I stopped being dumb and realised P's get degrees.
Didn't step foot on campus for over two years, even got library books delivered home.

1 week was generally enough to study sufficiently.
ilectures are a gift from heaven.

 

[perthblue]

my exam study consists of just going through past exams, you will find the differences between exams from year to year is not drastic

if you're interested, this bloke took the challenge of learning a 4 year computer science course in 12 months and made a video on how he learns quickly:

 

[mad_monkey_j]

I would smash past exams and then roll up to the actual exam and find they were mostly questions from past years. I was the master of rote learning.

You can usually find patterns and target things that will most likely be on the exam and really remember those. Though, if they don't show up you're ****ed.

 

[WCErevival]

Took me a semester to learn. First semester year 1. Went to every lecture, tutorial and answered all questions prescribed.

Then I stopped being dumb and realised P's get degrees.
Didn't step foot on campus for over two years, even got library books delivered home.

1 week was generally enough to study sufficiently.
ilectures are a gift from heaven.

Depends on what you want to do afterwards. If you want to do any post graduate study you can't with Ps. Doesn't look good if you are competing against people with higher grades for jobs either.

 

[Gigantic]

Get your hands on exam papers from previous years and do the questions, especially if the unit co-ordinator is the same as previous years because they usually just re-use questions or have very similar questions every year.