I think I have decided what I am going to do to prepare myself for the midterm and I am just curious to know if you guys agree with my way of doing it. I plan to do as professor Silliman said and write out the informal fallacies over and over again until the night before the test. I also plan to go over the notes I have taken from each section numerous times and make sure all of the information makes sense to me. After that, I plan to go all the way back to section 1.1 and do all of the starred problems up to section 3.5. By doing this, I hope to be able to find my weaknesses and strengthen them by Monday when we have the test.
Good, bad, any thoughts ?
I see some fallacies here :)
ReplyDeleteNo but seriously. Writing them out should help. I have been doing that. But it is easy when you have the book to look at. During a test you only have the ones you can remember. So writing them out a million times will only help those who benefit from that. The others will just have an exercised wrist.
Well, now we just have to do what works best for us. I personally think I will study tonight, tomorrow, and then complete the exam sometime on Saturday while I am home and in a nice quiet environment. I should not have any distractions and I will really be able to focus on doing well on the exam.
ReplyDeleteI think you're strategy would work pretty well. I would also look over all of the quizzes as well, especially because Professor Silliman put them together, unlike Hurley's problems in the book. I think all of those problems are helpful as well, but the quizzes are probably the closest to the exam, as far as format and difficulty goes.
ReplyDeleteYes! I thought of that after I posted, but I did look over the quizzes before doing the midterm. They were actually very helpful too. Many of the questions were stuff that we have discussed regularly in class and it just took a little bit of thought to work them out. Now all I can do is hope I did better than I do on those quizzes. I work hard and I am hoping to finally shine through and prove my understanding!
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