C - Criminology 12 - Thank you to Tony, Sam, Jessie, Calvin and Miranda for their presentations yesterday. I really appreciate all of your efforts to research something you're interested in and share it with the class. Today we'll get the chance to hear more of your interests but don't forget that we have a locker clean out and therefore our class will be shortened about ten minutes. We also have tomorrow to finish up presentations.
B - Social Studies 10 - Today you have another class to go through your review for your final exam. Your exam is four days away (next Monday) and there are a few ways that you should use to be prepared for the exam.
These are techniques that will help you review for tests:
- Create study checklists Identify all of the material that you will be tested on-- list notes, formulas, ideas, and text assignments you are accountable for. This checklist will enable you to break your studying into organized, manageable chunks, which should allow for a comprehensive review plan with minimal anxiety
- Create summary notes and "maps" Briefly map out the important ideas of the course and the relationships of these ideas. Summary notes should display lists and hierarchies of ideas. Creativity and a visual framework will help you recall these ideas.
- Record your notes and significant portions of text on audio tapes so you can review material with a walk-man. Having a tape of important informa-tion will enable you to study while walking or relaxing in a non-academic environment
- Create flashcards for definitions, formulas, or lists that you need to have memorized--put topics on one side of the card, answers on the other. Flashcards will enable you to test your ability to not only recognize important information, but also your ability to retrieve information from scratch.
A - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today is your final exam in Earth and Space Science. There are 140 questions in total and you should be able to finish in the alloted class time. Your first order of business is to relax. I am certain that you will do fine if you read each question carefully and use a process of elimination to narrow your focus down to the correct answer. If there are any questions you do not know the answer to right away skip them and go on to the next one (but make sure you come back to it later).These are techniques that will help you answer multiple choice questions:
- Cover the options, read the stem, and try to answer...select the option that most closely matches your answer
- Read the stem with each option and treat each option as a true-false question, and choose the "most true"
Strategies to answer difficult questions:
- Eliminate options you know to be incorrect If allowed, mark words or alternatives in questions that eliminate the option
- Give each option of a question the "true-false test:" This may reduce your selection to the best answer
- Question options that grammatically don't fit with the stem
- Question options that are totally unfamiliar to you
- Question options that contain negative or absolute words. Try substituting a qualified term for the absolute one, like frequently for always to see if you can eliminate it
- "All of the above:" If you know two of three options seem correct, "all of the above" is a strong possibility
- Number answers: toss out the high and low and consider the middle range numbers
- "Look alike options" probably one is correct; choose the best but eliminate choices that mean basically the same thing, and thus cancel each other out
- Echo options: If two options are opposite each other, chances are one of them is correct
- Favour options that contain qualifiers The result is longer, more inclusive items that better fill the role of the answer
- If two alternatives seem correct, compare them for differences, then refer to the stem to find your best answer
- Always guess when there is no penalty for guessing or you can eliminate options
- Use hints from questions you know to answer questions you do not.
- Remember that you are looking for the best answer, not only a correct one, and not one which must be true all of the time, in all cases, and without exception.
Breathe....It's all good.
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