Get Ahead, Stay Ahead: Take-home exams and revision
When:
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Venue:
Online
Get Ahead, Stay Ahead is a series of eight presessional study skills and writing workshops, designed to help you prepare for university before the beginning of term. Each 2 hour session consists of an hour-long lecture/workshop with activities, a 15-minute practice activity and a 45 minute 'skills clinic' for questions and discussion.
Exams and revision are a key part of many university courses. This online workshop will discuss revision methods and exam strategies, as well as considering how exams might work when studying from home.
The workshop will cover:
· Revision techniques
· Remote assessments and take-home exams: what are they?
· Managing exam time and environment from home
· Exam Tips and exam essay questions
· Structuring your exam essay writing
This online workshop will take place on a Blackboard Collaborate link within the Birkbeck Study Skills Moodle Module. If you have booked, you will be emailed another link as a reminder to your registered email address. (But please remember to check your junk mail.)
This workshop will repeat on Saturday 26th and Tuesday 29th September.
Please note these workshops are intended for Birkbeck College students only.
Please also note the full series of eight workshops is as follows:
Study skills:
1) Studying at home and time management
2) Reading, lectures and note-taking
3) Critical thinking and writing
4) Take-home exams and revision
Writing skills:
5) Essay and assignment writing
6) Style: Academic writing style
7) Structure: paragraphs and signposting language
8) Grammar: Sentences and punctuation
Contact name:
Sara Steinke