Physics 2130
Your primary study guide should be the lecture notes from each section of exam covered. As a starting point you can also look at the topics listed in review (and the learning goals for each section)---A great place to find these goals is on the topics midterm 2 or midterm3 topics covered for the exam. However there are also mention of these in the Lecture Notes and Homeworks.. We list GOALS on a slide toward the beginning of each class. I have written the midterm exam to assess these goals for midterm 2 and these for midterm 3. These should focus your studying.
For studying:
1. Check out topic area / learning goal and see if you can explain the principles and solve concept tests related to them. A good trick is to explain these ideas to a friend who is not in the class.
2. For every practice multiple choice question (either a clicker question, or a review question, or a question on a quiz), try to explain not only why the correct answer is correct, but also why all the other answers are incorrect. If you do this, you'll be prepared to answer many more alternative questions than just the one available for practice.
3. Also, students who re-write their own notes in their own words and practice explaining concepts to others learn more and do better on exams. Students who re-read and merely highlight passages, or, only re-read their own highlighted passages, do not do as well. There's important brain activity that comes with attempting to produce or create one's own explanations, in the context of what's already in your brain. If you find you are bored, or your mind is wandering, or that studying seems too easy, what you're doing is probably a waste of your time!
4. Students who get a good night's sleep the night before an exam do better than students who stay up to "study". Make yourself go to sleep at a decent hour!
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