What Will Be On My Next Exam???

What Will Be On My Next Exam???

It seems like it may be hard to know what will be on the next exam, but I will discuss some ways to work towards a better grade and further understand what may be asked and how to prepare for it.

Math 222 in my opinion is my hardest class this semester. I struggle to understand the problems. I can comprehend the problems when I am shown how to do them but I find it to be difficult when the question is in a different format, to determine what the question is asking. During the faculty interview, my teacher recommended that I look at all the practice questions and be sure that I can determine what all of them are asking, even if I don’t complete the problems. These questions are usually muti-step and asking many different questions, so it takes a long amount of time to even work through one problem.

What Do You Do?

Its easy! Make practice questions that you think will be on the exam!

Use your syllabus to determine the types of questions that will be asked. Make sure to go over information that YOU DO NOT know how to do, rather than building confidence with the ones you already have figured out. If you interviewed this faculty member, you should also have a far better idea of what should be asked and the amount of preparation and types of things that will be given on an examination. If you have had any quizzes, those would be great questions to work through and know how to do. If there is a study guide, certainly know all of the information on it, but know HOW to do them, not just what each problem is.

How has this helped me?

I have not actually had an exam since I started using this method, but so far, it seems to be helping. I am learning how to approach all types of problems in all different formats. I have learned plenty more information and spent more time studying than I have yet this semester. I am finding that doing simple problems on occasion can really help to gain knowledge that will certainly be needed throughout the course. This will certainly benefit me on the next exam.

Below is a problem that is similar to the example problems shown in class. It is easy to substitute numbers for other numbers in example problems and see if it has the same result or a similar one with different numbers. As long as I have this format figured out, I should be able to do any problem given to me. The problems are so lengthy that I will only show one example.