Tomorrow...9:00am

[JTIZZLEVILLE]

Sucks for you guys.

My college classes ended the first week of May.

 

[The Man Of 16]

Its nothing to brag about

Watch your mouth (or fingers?) on these boards mister. Just because your mom says that about you doesnt mean you can come on these boards and ruin EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE! Youre a big poopoo mouth. I hate you!

 

[Honey Vibe]

I will sit possibly the hardest exam of my academic career thus far.

A-Level Religious Studies: Module number 2771.

An hour and a half paper.

45 minutes for each question.

DENSE material to learn from.

4 questions asked, 2 to do- a mark a minute.
I've revised some of it....but i may just have to pull an all-nighter.
I have no choice.
​

shouldn't have left it so late.

Get all your books out in front of you.

This will sound stupid, but do it and you will get an A. Of course, there's no way to get an A if you haven't actually studied the material.


_______________________________________________


1. Calm down. Imagine you're somewhere non-threatening, like on the Enterprise's holo-deck running an Exam Tomorrow! protocol. It's all part of your Vulcan logic ritual.

2. Write as many key ideas of the course, DOWNWARDS on a blank piece of paper. Leave gratuitous space between them. Draw off-shoots and dissect them down further if possible, into smaller relevant concepts. Repeat. (Just one dissection is sufficient, and so is uneven dissection. Above all, don't panic.)

3. Take a colored pen (or write in bold) a + or a - beside each concept.

+ means you agree with the concept. It seems true, right, and logical.
- means you disagree. Something is nagging at you; it's just not "very good", believable, or complete.

4. Jot down 3 impressions that make a concept ... ...or . Maybe it's good because it is good for humanity. Maybe it's bad because ...well, it's just "dumb". Anything is a valid impression.

5. You now have the task of converting personal opinion into indisputable fact. This is fairly simple: draw an = sign next to each impression. Think back to a claim in one of your books that sounds a lot like what YOU're saying. Quote/paraphrase this claim on the other side of the equal sign.

6. The more claims, the better. Give each impression (or at least each negative one, because they're more risky; with positive ones merely demonstrating that you know it's a component of the key idea will often suffice) at least two, if possible.

7. If a key idea has excessive - impressions, you do not agree with that key idea. Excessive + impressions could mean it's great, but without claims to flesh'em out, it's a blindspot.

8. Blindspots are also key ideas with few or ambiguous concepts. Re-study sections to eliminate blindspots.

9. Do not ignore blindspots. Like the annoying guest who always finds a way into the rooms you didn't clean, 100% of blindspots appear on college tests.



You can now answer any short essay question the teacher can think of. You can answer them logically; you can answer them concisely; you can also answer questions that start with "What do you think and why?" intelligently.

Good luck.

 

[arachnid-guy]

Well....I didn't do an all nighter...I figured...what i dont know now i'll never know. Went to sleep but got up uber early. [5:00 am!]

Did a bit more reviison....in the exam....at first, I thought 'Oh lawd. SCREWED,SREWED,SCREWED!' But....I just did as much as I could mange to write about.

Ideas came to me in the exam but there WERE times which i was thinking 'Im gonna fail!', but i stuck at it and yeah, I think it went well. Better than I thought I'd do.

Next up: Classical Civilisation: Greek Tragedy. Which, I think I'll be fine at because ive been doing constant productive work over the course of the year [unlike a certain neglected subject *cough*r.s.*cough*] and my papers have been on average high b's.

Thanks for the advice. And even if i DO **** up, there's still the prospect of selling my body.

 

[Honey Vibe]

And even if i DO **** up, there's still the prospect of selling my body.

*waves a dollar* t: