12-01-2010 at 10:24 AM
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Exam Survival Event
There is one tonight for first year science students, from 7pm-9pm.
Has anyone attended these before? Are they worth the time? Thanks
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12-02-2010 at 12:45 AM
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On another note, did anyone who actually went to this get some interesting tip or whatever from the professors who were there that they want to use enough to remember (or remember enough to use)?
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12-03-2010 at 08:27 AM
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Thanks for all the feedback... lol...
Don't bother attending these in the future, they're a waste of time. Everything they do tell you, they post on Avenue ANYWAY
They tell you things like "get enough sleep, take 10 minutes break between studying periods...blah blah blah"
The professors also contradict what they say about studying patterns. One prof says study for 40 minutes at a time, while another says a hour, while another will say "it's really up to you"
Plus the room they had it in was too overcrowded, people had to sit on the stairs.
....And the microphone didn't work, so you couldn't hear much over people talking anyway.
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12-03-2010 at 12:55 PM
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Thanks for all the feedback... lol...
Don't bother attending these in the future, they're a waste of time. Everything they do tell you, they post on Avenue ANYWAY
They tell you things like "get enough sleep, take 10 minutes break between studying periods...blah blah blah"
The professors also contradict what they say about studying patterns. One prof says study for 40 minutes at a time, while another says a hour, while another will say "it's really up to you"
Plus the room they had it in was too overcrowded, people had to sit on the stairs.
....And the microphone didn't work, so you couldn't hear much over people talking anyway.
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Im surprised people actually went to these things. Those 2 hours could be spent like studying?
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12-03-2010 at 02:12 PM
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Im surprised people actually went to these things. Those 2 hours could be spent like studying?
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I slept on those two hours.  |
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12-03-2010 at 03:00 PM
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I slept on those two hours. |
Yeah..when I said studying I kinda meant anything else 
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12-03-2010 at 04:39 PM
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Im surprised people actually went to these things. Those 2 hours could be spent like studying?
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Well I don't know why McMaster tells people to attend these. They call them Exam SURVIVAL Events....obviously being a first year I want to check it out. Now I know not to go to them in the future. |
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12-03-2010 at 08:25 PM
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If you think about it, the name alone is going to stress students out. I mean, regardless of whether you go or not, calling it "exam survival" implies exams are something to survive, when really they should be trying to de-stress students. Seems like a good way to push students over the edge.
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12-03-2010 at 08:28 PM
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But...you got free cookies *o*
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12-03-2010 at 09:26 PM
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which I'm assuming they had a lot of leftovers of cause they were giving them away in the SciSociety office the next day :\
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12-03-2010 at 09:27 PM
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p.s. to add salt to the wound, many people got there only to find out that the room was packed and there was no room for them, because of the change of rooms they didn't have enough space. and then the upper year reps were like "that's okay, the stuff will be posted online anyway, and it's not really anything important". which just made me angry, personally, considering that I had to commute to get there.
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