Oct 27, 2017
Day 95/100 // 100 days of productivity
Yeah........ more bio exam revision today
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Day 95/100 // 100 days of productivity
Yeah........ more bio exam revision today
Day 83/100 // 100 days of productivity
Well, after sleeping until 12pm, I was quite productive today! I did my last set of bio note for the semester, completed an online quiz and prepared my speech for a team oral presentation tomorrow. It’s my last week for the semester in my first year of uni tomorrow, I can’t believe how quickly it has gone! In two short weeks I will be done with exams and officially done with first year, I have a feeling that the rest of uni will go this fast as well, and I’m not sure how I feel about that haha
Last 100 days of productivity post / studying for exams
Well... its here!
Day 100/100 // 100 days of productivity!
I’ve finally got to the end! I thought that I would never get to the end of this when I started! Since my last exam was yesterday, I thought that I would make this post as a how I studied for exams!
~ Quick disclaimer though... I’m clearly not the best student out there, and some of the bits and pieces which I’m going to say I should’ve started weeks ago! But we learn as we go, and it will just make me a better student for next year! ~
1. Find the learning objectives for your subject at the beginning of your subject. For me they were in a document called the ‘student learning guide’. In that it basically contained all info about the subject, assessment, learning objectives etc. They could also be given to you on a weekly/topic basis since generally the learning objectives won’t be general throughout all topics.
2. When you have found these learning objectives at the end of every week (or end of every topic) go through these learning objectives and relate this content that you’ve learnt back to these objectives. You could do this in different ways, on word, mindmaps, any way you want really. You may be going “Mel, this seems pointless, if I have my notes which I’ve taken throughout the topic, then why at the end do I need to then put my notes under these objective things?” Well! These “objective things” are what your exams or any major assessments will be based off! If they are the things which you are meant to have learnt throughout the topic, then obviously you are going to be tested on them in some way! So basically, do it! (Just don’t be concerned if you don’t add all of your notes in, lecturers and teachers always give you more info than you need, so this is an awesome way of working out exactly what you need to know and what you don’t!)
3. I know that this is something which everyone always says, but keep revising the stuff which you learnt early on throughout the semester/term/year/whatever it is! I’m the first to admit that I don’t do this nearly enough, but even if it is an easy topic compared to others, you will forget bits and pieces of it and if you don’t continue to go over it, it will make those last couple of week leading up to exams 10x harder!
4. Leading up closer to exams now. Go back to these summary type things of your notes to do with the learning objectives and just double check that you have covered all of the statements in the objective, and if not fill them in! Or if you think that something may need to be added, add it in!
5. Do practice exams/questions! If your school or uni give you access to practice exams, questions, or past exam papers, then you should 100% do them! They are the best way of preparing yourself to the type of questions that you should expect to see on the exam. By doing these you will familiarise yourself with the wording of the questions, and what general info they are after. I know for my uni, we have an online learning system thing, and in that for each subject there are forums. One of the best things to do in these forums coming up to exam time is any questions or may have in relation to the practice exams, or even if you want your answers checked, is to post them in the forums and generally teachers will normally answer you and tell you how you were going!
6. The night before your exam or the morning of, do whatever makes you feel confident and puts your mind at ease. If that is doing last minute cram of any sort, do it! If you just want to lay on the couch and watch tv, do it! If you want to make a cheesecake (that may or may not have been what I did), do it! I’ve seen plenty of things before saying not to cram the night before as you will stress yourself out and so on, but if that stops you from stressing, then do it! There is no right or wrong thing to do before your exam, do whatever makes you feel at ease!
Well, that what I did to prepare for exams. I hope that it may help some of you prepare for your exams whenever they may be. Remember, if these tips don’t work for you then thats fine! If you already have really good preparation for exams, then keep doing that! Just find what works for you and do that!
Day 49/100 // 100 days of productivity
During my 2 hour break at uni today, I smashed out a whole big chunk of my essay. I only have 800 words left and I haven’t done 2 paragraphs or my intro or conclusion yet, so I should easily make it, if not go over it - but hopefully not too much more!
Day 99/100 // 100 days of productivity
An old picture today... why? BECAUSE I FINISHED MY LAST EXAM TODAY!!!!!!!! I’m so glad exams are over! Its practically perfect timing since this post is the second last one out of the 100 days of productivity challenge! I think for the final post tomorrow I’m going to do kinda like a masterpost on how I prepped for exams! Let me know if you think that would be decent or not!
Day 59/100 // 100 days of productivity
I finished going through one of my older chemistry lectures today and pulled out all of the info I need. I found that whilst we focused on the chemistry of this subject the lecturer gave us a lot of information which we don’t need. It makes it ten times harder to try and learn everything if you don’t pull out the bits which you actually need!
Day 88/100 // 100 days of productivity
It was another day yesterday of just planning stuff and doing things for my assignment which I don’t really want to show. However since I forgot to post this yesterday (oops, sorry!), the post for today will definitely have a pic of my assignment! I can’t wait for this assignment to be done on Monday!
Day 66/100 // 100 days of productivity
Is this all you did today Mel? Mmmmmmm.... yep! I just wasn’t feeling doing any work today, so I started doing some of my readings for next week, but that is basically all I did. At least I got started haha