Epic Fail

milee13's picture

I think I just screwed myself over on a midterm.
I revised and revised and made fancy notecards and revised...and then was foiled by Human Memory of all things.
I can't seem to keep names and experimenters straight.
And the possible test coverage is so freaking broad that I can't even safely narrow down what to study, I have to go over everything and hope for the best.

Ugh...crash and burn.

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Neutrina's picture

Good Luck

If you're studying this hard, you'll probably be okay.
Um, something that helps me is re-writing notes. Even if you can't read them, you remember writing them.
Also, for the broadness - could you try making an outline of what you've learned so far? Maybe week-by-week or something?
Good luck!

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milee13's picture

Thanks for the advice,

Thanks for the advice, though I'd already taken the exam when I posted this and the latter part was just remarking on the general nature of my professor's exam formatting.

Anything covered is fair game, so basically what I did this time, after going through my class notes, was go back over her slide presentations and made two sets of notecards covering topics and vocab and others that detailed experiments and their conductors. It's a lot of information, especially when you have to have it all at ready recall just in case.

I'm with you on the rewriting notes bits, because then everything seems at least vaguely familiar, and it was pretty helpful for my classmates during our little pre-exam get together ten minutes before class when I was throwing around little red cards talking about Whorf and linguistic relativity theories and NREM vs. REM sleep stages and whatnot.

I think the most difficult part about her testing process is that her entire exam is essay questions, seven shorter ones and an eighth long one. So...you know that you need to know about eight completely different things, but there are a lot more than eight to learn about.
It was a very intense experience.
And I already know that I got one of the short questions wrong and that I put down the wrong experimenter's name on my long essay--actually, I think I might have completely made the name up...I'm not sure.