What to learn off?

misskerrie09

Well its only the first week and we havn't really started lectures that much but in the ones we have started we might get 6/7 A4 pages of notes and 40 pages to read from a book. I'm just wondering if we're supposed to learning all those notes of by heart like for leaving cert or is it just to rad and understand them? I just want to get it sorted before too much work piles up and i find out that I was supposed to learn them off as we went along... I wouldn't be able to answer a question on something that I had just read, I'd have to learn it off so do the exams ask you all the little questions you dont expect like in the lc?

Ostrom

misskerrie09 wrote: »

Well its only the first week and we havn't really started lectures that much but in the ones we have started we might get 6/7 A4 pages of notes and 40 pages to read from a book. I'm just wondering if we're supposed to learning all those notes of by heart like for leaving cert or is it just to rad and understand them? I just want to get it sorted before too much work piles up and i find out that I was supposed to learn them off as we went along... I wouldn't be able to answer a question on something that I had just read, I'd have to learn it off so do the exams ask you all the little questions you dont expect like in the lc?

The following is on the assumption that you're doing an arts/humanities subject [reverse response if studying science ]

NO!!!!! Forget it, dont learn anything off, there is no need. Dont even let yourself get into this mindset, forget about it. Exams are designed to test both knowledge and understanding, and I see this every year - a memorised exam answer reads exactly so, and they always suffer for it.

If you learn to enjoy your reading - however much you do - and grasp the concepts being taught in class - you will do just fine. The outside reading is the core of all subjects, what happens in the class is supportive. You wont be able to answer a question on it now, but you probably wont have to, you will be tested in a general way on your ability to apply concepts - not on definitions. Worry about revising definitions and names and such closer to exam time, just try to enjoy it for now.

LeixlipRed

You're in college, everything should be based on understanding. In an ideal world that is. Man, the LC is a joke

misskerrie09

efla wrote: »

The following is on the assumption that you're doing an arts/humanities subject [reverse response if studying science ]

NO!!!!! Forget it, dont learn anything off, there is no need. Dont even let yourself get into this mindset, forget about it. Exams are designed to test both knowledge and understanding, and I see this every year - a memorised exam answer reads exactly so, and they always suffer for it.

If you learn to enjoy your reading - however much you do - and grasp the concepts being taught in class - you will do just fine. The outside reading is the core of all subjects, what happens in the class is supportive. You wont be able to answer a question on it now, but you probably wont have to, you will be tested in a general way on your ability to apply concepts - not on definitions. Worry about revising definitions and names and such closer to exam time, just try to enjoy it for now.

I'm doing venture management so is that the same?
So then do you read over the notes on moodle before and after the lectures?

LeixlipRed

You do whatever you need to do to understand the material. I assume you'd like to work in that area when you graduate? Which do you think will serve you better, a comprehensive understanding of venture management or an ability to regurgitate sheets and sheets of notes taken in lectures?

I'm not being a dickhead, it's a common thing in my area (maths) to see students come from LC and all they have the capability to do is learn off formulae and what not. It's not your fault but if you really want to flourish in your chosen area then you must strive to go for understanding not learning by rote.

Anyway, it's the first week, relax and enjoy yourself