Posted by alexandra_k on May 19, 2014, at 1:50:51
In reply to Re: lectures, posted by alexandra_k on May 17, 2014, at 20:16:36
I suppose it is mostly fear. That I won't do well. Or that... I do mediocre. Which is... Which would actually be worse, somehow.
Test coming up real soon...
Then about a month before the exam. I suspect it will come together in time for the latter... I'm not sure about the former. Just do the best I can, I guess.
I... I have worked through the concepts about as best I can. Time for the calculations / equations. Pattern recognition. Setting the solutions up like the model answers. Learning how to enter things into my calculator and interpreting the display. I... I'm not 'cheating' or whatever by focusing on the tests / exams... I... Have done the hard yards of working through the text (when available) and the powerpoints and listening to the lectures several times over...
On the one hand... I think I may have been being unfair about the whole powerpoint thing... On the other hand... No, I don't think so, actually. I did an evaluation for the last lecturer and I was fairly nice because... Well... I'm not entirely sure. Relief that I didn't have her anymore? Not sure what it is... In some sense she does seem to try... But in another sense she doesn't. Giving us practice exercises full of typos... It isn't her first year teaching ffs... She didn't fix them up from last year because...
?
Anyway... That's that and that's over now... Back to a lecturer whose style of teaching suits me a whole heap better. Lots of... Concepts. Inferences. Visual presentation. I even follow his explanation of the math better... It probably helps that it is different... Another way of explaining. Which is what we don't get when she doesn't give us a textbook or anything other than her slides full of typos or half filled out lecture notes. Anyway... That's over now.
Working through the tests... I should get marks for drawing out the equation I'm supposed to use... Whether or not I get all the substitutions... And / or the final calculation.
I think... This is as hard as the math will get for me. ? I think so... I'll have to ask the physics people...
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