Re: The Horrors of...EXAM WEEK
Yes copying stuff and rewriting stuff definitely helps for me.
Also, to ease the stress of exam week, about a month in advance, i start looking back at the things taught during the beginning weeks, and several weeks in, i do small 'review nights' on days where i'm not too busy or i dont have homework.
So when the week before exam week comes around, a short review is usually enough to refresh in my mind everything i've learned. Spreading stuff out is the way to go.. cramming.. i tend to get more nervous.. lose sleep.. and make more careless mistakes.
Not sure what faculty your in, but im in engineering.. mostly math/physics/engg stuff. So no english or history memorization. If i dont get a concept, i try to get friends/TA's to teach me, and then i practice the method over and over again. Doing multiple types of the same problem helps as you become more familiar with all the ways they can throw a concept at you. Also, straight memorization = bad, because understanding the concept helps you be much more flexible with the way you think and approach a problem.. tho it always can be used as a last resort xD
Yeah so I heard. College is much, much harder than High school so im gonna have to change my habits in a few years. How long are the tests in college? Ours are like 2 hours.
Exams for me vary quite a bit.
My chemistry final was out of 110 marks, all short/long answer. (3hrs)
My Engg final was only 4 questions.. still took me the entire exam period and I could barely finish 3 and a half. (2hrs)
The tests are much harder i would say, but you just have to work hard to stay ahead of the curve. Like for our math course, everyone does so bad (because they make the tests super hard for some reason) that last year, they lowered the passing average to 30 some percent. Just make sure you do better than most ppl :P