So as opposed to memorising anything, I try and understand material, so I never aim to
read everything that's ever given to me.
I just aim to try and pick out the main points and make sure I understand them really well,
with Maths as well as Philosophy.
I know a few of my friends really like to make notes, and make sort of you know spider
diagrams and posters and colour coded little sheets and everything else, and that's great.
But I don't do that, I find it's a waste of time because it doesn't actually help me anymore
and its very time consuming, so yes making everything creative is great if that's what
you like.
Personally, I'm best just kind of like taking my time with absolutely everything and reading
it as many times I need to, and then I will know for myself that I understand it.
I tend to just have the lecture slides on my computer, my lecture notes on my notepad
and then just put them both into one.
So just re-write everything and sometimes talking about it with family.
It's quite interesting when I back home revising anyway.
My family haven't done Philosophy either but if I'm just going to sit there and talk at
them about it, it helps me a little bit even if they are not completely tuned in, I think
me trying to get my head around it, to explain it to them helps me understand it.
So it's one thing sort of understanding the theory behind it, another thing being able
to apply it.
So I think doing as many past papers and doing questions that are perhaps more difficult
than questions you're going to get in the exam, because even though you probably won't,
you know won't have to know that, it's really helpful to be able to do them or at least
look at how they've been done, by you know other students in previous years, just to
develop a better understanding of the material that you will have to deal with, so I think
practice is probably definitely key with Maths.
The majority of exams is made up of essays, so If you can get the basics of an essay sorted,
and if you can improve on where you've gone wrong in a coursework essay, in your exam
essay then I think that's definitely going to benefit your final mark because you've
got time pressures in exams and you're trying to write so much in so little time, that if
you can get the basics of an essay down from feedback that you've got from your coursework
then it's definitely going to be beneficial.