Tuesday, February 10, 2009

How to study for exam 1

Here are a few study tips as you prepare for exam 1.

  1. Review lecture notes. What I talk about in lecture is the important stuff.

  2. Scout out the parts of chapters 2-5 that correlate to what I cover in lecture. These will reinforce the important stuff I cover in lecture.

  3. Check each of the Linsky files. They are the PDFs of each CPS session, and have Ed's performance PLUS the right answer. Since CPS occurs in lecture, you can assume that they reinforce


  4. Go through the doc cam PDFs in the "Blurbs from lecture" folder in Webcourses. These are usually calculations or diagrams from lecture, so they back up the important stuff I cover.


  5. Look through your homework assignments in Webcourses, double check the concepts and calculations.


  6. Use the "Newton's Second Law of Motion" learning object, for extra practice. Your assessment score there is our HW for tonight.


  7. Contribute a question to the Discussion area "Bonus: suggest question for midterm exam 1" which will
    1. earn you two bonus points if it is good enough to use on the test,
    2. help you study,
    3. and if you review all the other questions, you will have a good probability of seeing the questions I use on the exam!



  8. Find a study partner and talk over your uncertainties. Putting words to your difficulty is the first step to thinking your way through.

  9. Pepper our TAs Ashton and Meg with questions in the "Motion, acceleration, trajectories " discussion area.

Remember to bring your CPS device plus a UCF scantron.