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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

That’s about six steps too many.

Step 1 cram the night before the test

There are no other steps.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Step 2 panic after taking the test

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

step 3 it is what it is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You forget the step where you reconsider your life when you don't understand any questions from the exam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Step 2, spend 3 hours comparing your results with every person after the exam.

Optional step: calculate the minimum score you need to pass, more applicable to those of us that had courses 70-100% of the final grade coming from the final exam.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol yea I've seen many many versions of these steps, I don't think it ever gets followed....well maybe that one over achieving kid or the one whose parents will disown them if they dare to get a B+

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

hey that's me

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This would be great if you didn't have five different exams over a two week period :-/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I got anxiety just from looking at this, and I graduated college two years ago already

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The hour before I would do last-minute review and it saved me often.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely! More recent memories are much easier to recall. In the hours leading up to the test you should be again reviewing the material. Exactly like you said, there have been many times when i got an answer right instead of wrong purely because i had just re-read that info again a few minutes before the test. This is especially true for a test that requires a lot of memorization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

im also going to study the night before. I by and large did not do all nighter nonsense but I don't stop studying because its in 24 hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

came to basically say this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Step 1: wing it, if you need to study, you don't know the material. Skill issue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

So I raised my hands and asked god: "How can I overcome this challenge?"

"git gud" his answers was.

So I asked again: "But what if I am not good enough?"

And god answered me again and said: "lol kek"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

This seems a bit dystopian to me. If you have to spend weeks prepping for a test, the test isn't tuned to the materials covered in class very well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm fascinated how British English uses "revise" where American English uses "study". I wonder how this came about. In America, you would say "I'm studying for an exam", but use "I'm revising my paper" to mean you already have a draft of the paper done and you are looking it over to make improvements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh, is that what it meant? I was confused about the "plan your revision" part. Apparently it specifically means "to study again", so what we'd call "reviewing" in US English.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

A step it’s missing:

* Contemplate your abysmal failure repeatedly for at least a week prior to the exam, rendering you completely incapable of all normal human functions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The sixth step looks like a scythe at a glance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Sure op... sure...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Past experiences show I be able to get any sleep, and I won't be able to have any breakfast. I may have started studied well before the two-week mark, and have overdone it so hard I will not perform at all on the exam day.

Other than that, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Time budget wise I'd allot myself an hour per page if doing a report, so long as I had all the research material on hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
  • Contemplate the meaninglessness of it all

  • Get over it and study for the damn test