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When you go after a liberal arts degree studying is superfluous.  
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You have no idea how true that statement is ;D  Just wait till you go to college, you'll see ;)

I've always done well on tests.  I use applied knowledge rather than straight-up regurgitation.  You want to actually understand what you're studying, and not spit back what you learned...that doesn't help you at all in the long run.

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Not in my case!...   ::)

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I've always done well on tests.  I use applied knowledge rather than straight-up regurgitation.  You want to actually understand what you're studying, and not spit back what you learned...that doesn't help you at all in the long run.
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Yeah, I always try to understand what I study, because just memorizing things is useless...

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Hmmm... if you're going after a science degree, that's different.

Maybe you can try forcing earthworms to read your math books, grind them up and feed them to a group of earthworms reading your chemistry books, etc., etc., until finally you have a group of Einstein earthworms.  At that point, grind them up and eat them yourself.  Osmosis will carry their knowledge to your braincells...http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/cool/cool030.gif

Not a bad idea from someone with a liberal arts degree, huh?  ;D
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That is the funniest stupid thing I've heard in a while ;D

The earthworms' brains would explode, if anything ;)

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I disagree with everyone. If you listen to them you will get screwed. Now is the time to shine. Do your best, read all your assignments, and study. You will be rewarded for your hard work.

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Hey Steve.

How is studying for a liberal arts degree superflous? Do you know what "superflous" is? I took pleanty of liberal arts classes, and each one offered something new, if you spent the time to READ the material. Maybe you are not a book person. You always learn something new. Books are the foundation of our education system. If you have a problem with the curriculum, speak to that. Time is valuable. What do you suggest he reads? Do you want to screw this kid??? You @sshole!

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Hey Steve.

How is studying for a liberal arts degree superflous? Do you know what "superflous" is? I took pleanty of liberal arts classes, and each one offered something new, if you spent the time to READ the material. Maybe you are not a book person. You always learn something new. Books are the foundation of our education system. If you have a problem with the curriculum, speak to that. Time is valuable. What do you suggest he reads? Do you want to screw this kid??? You @sshole!
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Woah woah WOAH!!!  Jeez, let's try to calm down, okay?  Steve posted up yonder that he DID get a liberal arts degree, and if you've paid attention to his posts you'll know he's a very well read person.  No need to throw down, especially since it's obvious that he was making a joke.  

We can talk about this in more civil tones if you desire.

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Bush must subscribe to your education system. Cut funding. Screw the kids. Books are worthless. Look at Bush, the right family and money will get a coke habit and DUI overlooked and win you florida by scamming old people. Good job! The only problem is most kids do not have major political players as parents.

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Hey Steve.

How is studying for a liberal arts degree superflous? Do you know what "superflous" is? I took pleanty of liberal arts classes, and each one offered something new, if you spent the time to READ the material. Maybe you are not a book person. You always learn something new. Books are the foundation of our education system. If you have a problem with the curriculum, speak to that. Time is valuable. What do you suggest he reads? Do you want to screw this kid??? You @sshole!
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Superfluous, John.  You left out a "u".
Why are you so excited?  Mellow out, this is just a message board.

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Woah woah WOAH!!!  Jeez, let's try to calm down, okay?  Steve posted up yonder that he DID get a liberal arts degree, and if you've paid attention to his posts you'll know he's a very well read person.  No need to throw down, especially since it's obvious that he was making a joke.  

We can talk about this in more civil tones if you desire.
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Kids mean more to me than anything else. Sorry Steve, I do not know you, I repsonded to that one post. And what I said stands to your post. If it was a joke, you should say so. Kids look for guidance, and they will take it from you. Best wishes to you all, I am sorry if I came across strong, but kids must be given the right environment to succeed. They are our future.

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Read the class book. That is the best place to start. If you see any words in BOLD make sure you know the definition. I used to have a notebook where I wrote words in bold from class books and the definition. You would be suprised, but writing it down can help you remember it. Second, if the teacher writes anything on the board, KNOW IT! If the teacher spends the time to write it in front of you, they will expect you to know it for a test.

If you read the book and pay attention in class, you will do well. Make sure you read the book. I can not stress that enough.

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How you plan your study habit is ultimately up to you.  A lot of us may have graduated from college, but we don't know everything.  Everyone has their own little method.  The trick is to stick with what works for you.

The book doesn't contain everything you need to know, and that's where the teacher and the library become your best resources.

As a rule, I try not to study for a 12-hour period leading up to the test.  It's best not to cram if you can.  I like the free time to "meditate" and have fun :)  Helps if you get into as relaxed a mood as possible entering the test, but not so relaxed that you zonk out through 2/3 of it ;)
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This works in college better than high school. In high school, teachers normally have a list of objectives they want to test. And most of them come from the book and lectures.

The question was not how to be a well educated person. If you want to be that, go to barnes and noble and start reading all the penguin classics from Jane Austin to Leo Tolstoy. Spend one week reading Invisible Man and understand what it is to be black, and the next week read the Great Gatsby and understand what it is to be rich and white. You will find alot in common amoung them all. But you have lots of time to read those books, for now read your class books.

P.S. I still have a crush on Daisy!

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Seriously, this time.

Try to do all the reading ahead of time.  Earl's right, cramming is dangerous.

One thing I found really helpful was study groups.  It helps a lot if you can hook up with a few of your classmates and spend a few hours discussing the subject away from the classroom.  Anytime I've done that, I've found that one person has something down cold, another knows this like the back of their hand.  It helped a lot to learn with friends.
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Good advice!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Just try and stay on track.

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Um, no offense, but you might want to check your spelling before you decide to defend your position (especially having a liberal arts background). You should know better than to bite more than you can chew.
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Nothing a spell checker can't fix. You learn that in college too.  ;)

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Um, no offense, but you might want to check your spelling before you decide to defend your position (especially having a liberal arts background). You should know better than to bite more than you can chew.
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One other thing. I was giving good advice. It does not matter how good my spelling is. It matters how well this kid will do. And you proved my point. If you do not know your sh!t, someone else will exploit you for it.

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That's always been my technique - taken to its logical conclusion: come O-levels, my revision technique was to read through every Agatha Christie book (56 or 57 of them - you get to realize that there's only half-a-dozen different plots regurgitated with different names, and a different murderer you could pick with a pin)... at university, when they give you all this free time in your final year, I bought a guitar and taught myself to play (NB this was computing and chemistry, none of that arts stuff.  I'd probably have done better, too, if I'd remebered to take a calculator into the physical chemistry exam, as log tables take so long).  OK, so you do need a pretty good understanding of the subject to get away with that kind of approach, but isn't that what the teachers are for?  I was lucky in that I've had some exceptionally good science teachers.

Phil

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You don't say what sort of tests they are.  I think it depends on the subject.  The method I found to work was to rewrite and condense my notes from the lecture.  This ensures you understand the key points from each section.  Try to think how each bit links together (took me a while to figure this skill out).

Can you get hold of past exam papers or mock papers that will be in the format you will be sitting?  Have a go at one or two of these.  First of all with an open book and then closed book, against the clock.  This will also help you work out how to divide your time in the exam.  It's no good spending half the time answering one question if there are 4 to do.

If you want to try to be clever you could also try and predict which topics are likely to come up in the exam and spend more time revising those.  This is a highly dangerous technique and has been known to backfire  :(

Anyway best of luck with the tests

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I agree. I found it easier to remember stuff when I went through it and made notes in my own style of speak shall I say, rather than what my teacher said or the way a book is written.
Using old test papers is really useful and a good tutor should have you doing that anyway. Above all take breaks and chill out inbetween study,remember to eat and sleep if nothing else, cramming nonstop achieves nothing and last minute frantic cramming NEVER works! I should know I see enough hysterical students at work who leave it all to the last minute!!

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What graduates ask-
Science Degree: "What is that?"
Accounting Degree: "How much does that cost?"
Marketing Degree: "How can we sell that?
Liberal Arts Degree: "Do you want fries with that?"




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Remember as - Students Like Taking Prostitutes To The Carlton Hotel.
Also - Some Lovers Try Positions That They Cannot Handle.

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You moms on this board are sooooo bad ;D  It's amusing.

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You moms on this board are sooooo bad ;D  It's amusing.
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BUT, would you remember? Uh huh. Thought so. :D
And we didn't start out as Moms. :o

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And we didn't start out as Moms. :o
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But you always had it in you ;)

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But you always had it in you ;)
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Exsqueeze me. :o Yeah and then you end up with triplets. ;D

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Have you ever used pneumonics? If you have to remember a list of something, you make up a sentence with the first letter of each item. I found that the funnier or nastier I made them, the easier they were to remember.
Ex:Bones of the wrist
2 rows of 4
Proximal row, from lateral to medial
Scaphoid
Lunate
Triquetral
Pisiform
Distal row, from lateral to medial
Trapezium
Trapezoid
Capitate
Hamate.
Remember as - Students Like Taking Prostitutes To The Carlton Hotel.
Also - Some Lovers Try Positions That They Cannot Handle.

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Cool!  Think that would work with Mendeleev's  Periodic Table of the Elements?  ::)  ;D

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Cool!  Think that would work with Mendeleev's  Periodic Table of the Elements?  ::)  ;D
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It might, rabbit, it might...

For example, Group VI elements are oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium and polonium...

So "O" "S" "Se" "Te" "Po"

Now make a sentence ::)

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It might, rabbit, it might...

For example, Group VI elements are oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium and polonium...

So "O" "S" "Se" "Te" "Po"

Now make a sentence ::)
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Overly Soggy Sex Tempts Poodles
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Overly Soggy Sex Tempts Poodles
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I sincerely hope your triplets grow up to have your sense of humor ;D

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I sincerely hope your triplets grow up to have your sense of humor ;D
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It was passed down from my Father so we can hope. Although their Father isn't always pleased with my sense of humor. C'est la Vie. ;D

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Overly Soggy Sex Tempts Poodles
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