Get the Grade
Achieve high marks for your assignments.
Follow these steps and you should come away with at least a 2:1.
- Start work as soon as work is set. This gives you a chance to get feedback on your work and refine it as you go along.
- Make sure you are absolutely clear on what you are being asked to do. Go and see your tutor for 10 minutes on your own if you have to. It’ll make a big difference to your mark.
- Try and find out what subjects you are expected to cover in the essay.
- When you have covered all the mandatory subjects, push your research further to pick up more marks.
- Make sure you balance different viewpoints and arguments
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- Add a bibliography of everything you have read, which is relevant.
- Format your document properly – check with your tutor if you are not absolutely sure it is correct.
- Spell check everything.
- Get someone else in your class to read it and check for grammar and technical mistakes.
- Get another person to read it and proof read it yourself AGAIN to make sure you have the best work possible to give in.
- Most Importantly - ASK if you need help! Ask your classmates or even better...ask your tutor!
Facebook and Teamwork
Checking Facebook 55 times a day really isn’t necessary, but using Facebook in other ways can have its uses.
Set up a discussion group for your course on Facebook and use it to discuss questions and swap notes. Of course you need to get everyone actively
participate otherwise the whole thing will be rendered ‘pointless’.
Getting together in groups and regularly meeting before an assignment is due to share thoughts is key to success. It gives further extension to discussion in your seminar sessions.
Note taking
First off, consider getting a laptop if you haven’t already got one. Not everyone will think you are a posh little git if you have one. Plus you’ll have much better notes than everyone (as long as you can type fast).
Laptops start from around £300. Click here for the latest and best deals.
If you don’t want to splash out on a laptop then you need to get your own
system of note taking. Generally, follow these rules…
- Listen carefully
- Take down the most important points
- Avoid writing the same thing twice
- Listen for repetition of key points
You’ll need to develop your own unique system of taking notes. Whether it be using different colours, highlighting, bullet points, shortened word technique or something else. Use whatever works for you and stick to it.
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