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- Subject: Re: I just had to say it
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.190937.3011@gacvx2.gac.edu>
- From: vlarson@pepperoncini.gac.edu (Viktoria J Larson)
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:09:36 -0600
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- In article <1993Jan23.212808.9205@ultb.isc.rit.edu> writes:
- > Polar Bear writes:
- > The only advice I can offer is don't study so much and don't sweat.
- You're
- > going to have to do them seven more times even before college; no sense
- getting
- > too upset about them now.
- >
- > How can you say that? She's obviously worried about finals, and telling
- > her not to sweat it is going to rid her of her worry and think it's just
- > a damn quiz. Finals are always easier than you think they're going to
- be,
- > but there's a reason for that. When you get worried, you study more - to
- > that point that when you do actually take it, you know it all. Not
- studying
- > would be a big mistake. If you think that only being in 7th (or
- whatever)
- > grade is a reason to write off finals as something that doesn't matter,
- > you're wrong. You gotta start out right and you'll continue doing well.
- > Try making outlines, or buying a review book. Or get a friend to quiz
- > you....but definitely STUDY!!
-
- Yeah, study some. But, I have found that a good night's sleep (for
- several nights in advance of the final) helps more than anything. And, as
- long as you study enough so that you feel that you are moderately well
- prepared, you will *most likely* do well. My advice (as unwanted/unneeded
- as it may be) is to study enough to do well, but don't study so much that
- you stress yourself out completely. And, most of all, DON'T "CRAM"!!!
- You learn and remember a lot more if you study as you go along, instead of
- all at the same time. If you cram, and you blank on what you learned one
- night, you are stuck!! But finals aren't as bad as they are made out to
- be. They really aren't a life and death situation!!
-
- Vikki Larson vlarson@nic.gac.edu
-