Pass Your Exams - Study Skills for Success

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Holmes has worked as a management consultant for the Big Five consultancies (he's currently at Ernst and Young). He's been widely published in fields as diverse as Risk Management and Environmental Ethics. He's the author of Pains on Trains and Pains in the Office (Capstone) and is an expert on lifelong learning Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Are you sitting comfortably? If you're coming back into the study and exam thing after a few years off (for good behaviour), it's a good idea to refresh yourself with what works and what doesn't. 2. Syllabus savvy The syllabus serves an important purpose: it tells us what we are meant to learn. Of course, it also tells the teachers what they should be teaching us, which helps. 3. It's all about attitude, dude You can't escape the need to study, whether it's for your entry level qualifications, degree, postgraduate or professional exams. To master the art requires discipline and persistence - and attitude. 4. Protect your environment Where do you like to get down to it? Do you prefer a soundtrack or would you rather do it in silence? How you create your perfect study environment is up to you. 5. Charting your success When it comes to study, maintaining your motivation is difficult at the best of times. So how do you do it? One thing that seems to work for a lot of people is the use of a study charter. 6. On your marks You have spent up to three years learning your subject, weeks or months revising and a few hours regurgitating all that knowledge in the exam hall. That's exhausting stuff. So how do you feel about those who are going to mark it? Possibly a little apprehensive. 7. Books, glorious books Some one million books are published every year. Now that's a lot. This means there's plenty of material floating around out there that you can draw on, and what better place to find it all than in a library. 8. Standing on the shoulders of giants. These days there are plenty of study aids available to make your life easier when it comes to study. So why not dig deep and fork out some cash on a few? 9. Too many cooks? Ah, the joy of group projects. Love them or hate them, they are there to test your team working skills and to get your creative juices flowing. 10. Too much information How on earth do you manage all the information, facts, figures, case studies and examples you're expected to remember? Where do you start? 11. Fewer snakes, more ladders If studying and exams were a game of snakes and ladders, wouldn't you want to have more ladders than snakes? In the world of study, 'exam briefings' are there to be climbed whereas bunking off can only bring you down. 12. Tick, tock Managing time is a skill which every student has to master. From developing a study timetable to making sure you spend your time effectively in the exam hall, every second counts. 13. Spotting the winners. If you're struggling with the amount of revision you've got to do, why not try something completely different? It's time to cut to the chase and get your binoculars out. Yes, it's time to go question spotting. 14. One step beyond. Once you've covered the whole syllabus, you should have done everything you need to be successful, right? Well, yes and no. Certainly, you ought to pass, but to pass well will require a little bit more. 15. Life, the universe and everything...but what's the question? Struggling with what those exam questions are really looking for is one of the perennial problems of the student. But how to sort the inquisitorial wheat from the questionable chaff? 16. Let me look into your mind One of the hardest jobs when it comes to studying is distilling your copious notes into a manageable number of words, pictures, key words and bullet points that you can remember. One of the best methods is mind mapping. 17. Morning, noon and night. When do you feel most productive? Do you deliver the goods ...

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Holmes
• Publisher: Infinite Ideas
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2005
• EAN: 9781904902294
• ISBN: 978-1-904902-29-4
• No. of pages: 256