<p>So finals are coming up week after next and I'm already kind of getting stressed because of the amount of material that is going to be covered on my finals. Although I only take 3 finals all three are cumulative finals. When do you guys start studying for your finals and how do you study? Do you just go over the notes and do practice problems? Any advice would be appreciated!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I’ll probably start studying the week before. I’ll go over notes, reread the books, do some practice problems. I’ll probably do flash cards if I get really into it. Adderall helps as well, that and Red Bull (though not at the same time).</p>
<p>Check what your teachers mean by “cumulative.” Lots of classes, especially math/science ones, build on each other, so you might only be tested on what you’re working on now, since it utilizes components you’ve been learning all semester (and which you probably know quite well). This may of course not be the case, but I was freaking out about my stats final until my teacher told us that it wouldn’t really be “cumulative” in the traditional sense.</p>
<p>Mine are this Fri, Mon and Tues, then I am done</p>
<p>Well I only have 1 final. Its cumulative, so i’m just gonna read all the notes i’ve taken over the semester. I’ll do this the day of by the way.</p>
<p>-Chinese final looms near (part oral presentation part written test)
-Sartre & Camus seminar paper due-date approaches (25 pages)
-Cumulative Ancient Civilizations final soon (supa easy)
-Religious studies paper due-date approaches (10-pages)
-Art History (rofl lololmfao art history) final approaching so I best spend 30 mins memorizing slides
-English final = open-ended essay on any literature read thus far in course (probably be 10-15 pages)</p>
<p>But honestly this is a pretty light load. We’ve had a lot of time to work on the essays, and the in-class essays shouldn’t be too bad.</p>
<p>Last semester, I started studying during the three-day reading period we have. It was fine, but I think I should have started earlier for calculus.</p>
<p>For my quantitative classes, I do as many practice problems from the textbook and from the Internet if I can find some. I make sure to review the solutions and figure out where my mistake was if I erred. I repeat this process until I’m getting a percentage right that I would be satisfied with on an exam. Reading over notes is a nice supplement. </p>
<p>For my humanities classes, on the rare occasion that I have a final, I just read over the notes and write down as many ideas as possible about the major themes we studied. That way, I know I’m prepared to write an essay on any of said themes or answer short questions.</p>
<p>I will start studying 2 weeks before. Keep yourself in the library for a minimum of 2 hours a day and study intensively.</p>
<p>I study every weekend for finals from the first weekend on. Just a quick run through my notes, so come finals time everything is still fairly fresh in my mind-- that way all your time is spent ACTUALLY STUDYING and not just reviewing material because you forgot it. Then like a week or two before, depending on how hard I expect the exam to be, I start studying in more detail.</p>
<p>I second DMOC. Do NOT torture yourself bywaiting last minute to study. It is pure hell. I did this over spring break (int he course of 3 days) and paid the ultimate price. I mean, I got an A for both tests that I study for but I ended up studying (and I’m not exagerating) cumaltively 10-13 hours for both tests. If I would’ve spread it out, I would’ve spread it out like 2 hours a day, it would’ve have been torture.</p>
<p>So bottom line, spread out your time. I have my Econ final in 4 weeks but I’m studying now since I have so much free time. Gotta take advantage of that free time.</p>
<p>I have 2 group finals, and 1 cum final in physics, which I think I’ll be okay with as long as I understand whatever we are talking about now</p>
<p>I’m wondering why you feel the need to say you’re not exaggerating when you talk about studying 10-13 hours for a test. In the subjects in my major I’d feel 20 hours of studying (not reviewing) in the four days before the test would be the minimum amount of preparation necessary, and something more like 40 hours would be necessary to get an A.</p>
<p>Next week I have an inorganic chemistry lab final on Tuesday, Roman civilization final Thursday, a regular exam for inorganic chemistry on Friday, then a probability final on Saturday.
The week afterwards I have a physical chemistry final on Tuesday and an inorganic final on Thursday.
Then I get a week off before starting biochemistry. :)</p>
<p>^I’d say it would depend on the difficulty of your classes. I do not doubt math/science classes require 40 hours to get an A. However for example I am not a math/science major, and some of the classes I am taking require little to no studying to do well (my definition of well is B and up). Furthermore some of my classes are on topics I already know well (and previously knew well before taking the class), so that cuts down on time needed to study. I think it all depends on how well you want to do and how easy your classes are, as well as your natural aptitude for the subject (I have to study a lot for the few math classes I do take because I am very bad at math, for example).</p>
<p>That makes sense. I’ve noticed that I only need to study about 30 minutes per test for Roman Civilization, and even for Greek Civilization which I had never studied in the past I only needed at most an hour per test to get A’s.</p>
<p>I only skim through my notes and pass with As. Then again, I’m not taking math or science this semester, and none of my classes are cumulative.<br>
I’m more concerned about the upcoming papers and projects, which I enjoy, but there are…quite a few of them this semester.</p>
<p>I have art projects to turn in before finals that are currently stressing me out. But I only have 2 actual finals. One cumulative, one not.</p>
<p>I have 12 cumulative finals; 11 of which are work more than 90% of my mark in the course. My first one is in 45 minutes, actually…</p>
<p>I’ve just written up lots of revision notes, and done lots and lots of past papers.</p>