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- From: gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok)
- Subject: Re: I just had to say it
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.024203.12927@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1993Jan23.212808.9205@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1993Jan24.190937.3011@gacvx2.gac.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:42:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.190937.3011@gacvx2.gac.edu>, vlarson@pepperoncini.gac.edu (Viktoria J Larson) writes:
- > 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
-
-
- Wow - so much advice! :)
-
- I know it all already(the advice, I mean), but I probably won't end up
- listening to it. I'm a true procrastinator. My mom just told me to get
- off the computer and study - see ya later!
-
- Aliza
-