No lectures Revision periods may mean hours slogging away inside books, but it's better than waking up for that morning lecture.
I remember being called to see a patient who had fallen out of bed and vividly recall that Damascene moment of realising that for all the lectures, revision, exams and mnemonics that had characterised medical school, I had no idea what to do with this human being or how to solve the problem of her being on the floor.
Give it weight accordingly and make sure to allocate 3 hours daily for lecture revision and 30 minutes for problem solving.
Give it weightage accordingly and make sure to allocate 3 hours daily for lecture revision and 30 minutes for problem solving Clear your concepts while you have time: ask your teacher/lecturer as many questions as you can about any topic that you feel even the slightest doubt about.
Instead of having 'revise biology module' scrawled helplessly on a Post-It, this could be a much better alternative: Make revision flashcards for each lecture, one lecture covered per week, over the ten weeks running up to 15 May.
In 1704 Newton combined a revision of his optical lectures with the paper of 1675 and a small amount of additional material in his Opticks.
The major focus of the revisions was the lecture pages, while the workshop pages had only minimal information on them.
The weekly online revision quiz opened after the lecture and closed the evening before the lecture the following week.
This correlates well with data from both Copley [ 15] and Pilarski and colleagues [ 5] who reported that revision and general review of lectures were the main reasons for student usage of podcasts in marine science and molecular foundations of medicine respectively.
"Some lecturers are open to connecting on LinkedIn, or have Twitter profiles to follow that give you a flavour of what your course will be like when you start," says Horne. "We have lecturers at Newcastle who run lecture roundups and revision Q&As through Twitter, which you can eavesdrop on to get a feel for course content".
In terms of reasons for using the podcasts, the majority of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that they used podcasts when they wanted to generally revisit the lecture, specifically for revision purposes, and also when they had a specific question.
