How to Cope with Coursework Reviews

I'm one of these people who did ok at school and then went to University only to discover that Uni is NOT at all like school. You've suddenly got untold freedom - no parents, no boundaries - except you're meant to be there to study and get something at the end of it! I went from an environment where I had to be in by a ...

This is possibly a bit late to do a review like this, with the summer holidays starting and most students / schoolkids not having any coursework left to do. But there’s always the next term,no-one has done a review on it for 4 years and I’m bored! Coursework is possibly one of the most soul destroying tasks in the universe, and ...

Now I have always been more of an exam person myself. I have never really been able to apply my self to coursework and as a result of this it has often been rushed off a couple of days before the deadline and I then have to live with the fact that I could have done better. The problem for me with coursework is that there are too many ...

I'm sure at one point in all our lives we all study in some way or another... From Driving lessons and theory tests to a Post Doctoral Thesis to a School test or even a test at work...An old bloke told me what I was and what to do.... Let's just say the old bloke was about 30 and I was a fresh faced 17 year old and not a ...

I started writing this at Midnight last night, but then my pc buggered up and I lost it all :-( So heres a quick re-cap of why I was writing it, I was sat at home last night approaching the witching hour, trying desperately to write an essay that was due in today! It was supposed to be 3000 words long and I'd managed a grand 1250!, ...

Coursework Coursework Coursework, worth so little (20% on my course) and yet enough to fail you the year (like me). I'm semi-ashamed to admit that I am re-sitting my first year at university. I listened to all the 2nd and third years who said it was 'close to impossible to fail your first year' and did just that. Now, ...

Coursework seems to have a number of different meanings. At school it often meant spending a day walking round our town counting buildings and colouring in the special map red for houses, blue for hotels and yellow for shops. After that we?d have more than a month to write up our findings, stick them in a presentation folder and paste a postcard ...

Another of my writings about life in general from elsewhere, but I thought worth including here, particularly as we have just started the new semesters and term......... Gosh those were the days, the endless party's, constant daytime and pre lecture drinking, smoking strange aromatic foliage and tobacco, the endless swearing, ...

I have not been particularly gifted at doing course work - not since GCSE level anyway. I will attempt to help everyone out there with some tips that were given to me and I should have taken, but didn't and also some things which I did find useful when I did make time to complete this dreaded task. So, where do you start with course ...

I'm only a second year so I might not have as many tips as others but they are just as valid. -As soon as course-work has been given out leg it to the library. Regardless of how many months there are till the hand in date. Now, get every book listed as a reference for the questions and as many other relevant ones. Take them out ...

If you think back to your GCSE days all of you FE and HE students....you remember what it was like dont you. All them subjects you HAD to do....no choice in around 6-7 of them (dependant on your school). Then came along the course-work time of year! The word "course-work" fills most students with dread. Including me when I ...

Are you a mature student taking your Maths GCSE, or is your teenager taking this exam? If so read on. Anybody will tell you that GCSE Maths coursework is the hardest subject to obtain an A/A* grade in. I have many great tips to get that elusive grade. 1) Normally you will be presented with a relatively simple problem, such as ...

When I was doing my A levels, course work was fairly easy to cope with. There were times when it seemed like it was getting on top of me, but these were fewer than the times I felt totally under the work at uni. The difference was that I was at a sixth form college when doing my A levels and here the teachers kept a close eye on you. They ...

I have just received my Open University material and it seems ok. I have had to read a lot of material to get back into the swing of things. And it seems ok, not to daunting. I do think reading is the key to success. When you read, you pick up knowledge that others may not have or concepts might be explained better. The same is with ...

First of all don’t think of it as ‘oh damn here’s some coursework-what a hassle’ most of the time coursework goes towards your final mark, so think of it as you’re chance to prove how good you are. Most of the time, you can spend quite a lot of time and get help from tutors so us their help, comments and advice. ...

~~~~~~~~~~For UPDATE Scroll to end of text This one might be classified as Nifty Hints and Tips, but then again I think this is the right category. How to cope with course work. I have been attending College on and off over the past 5 Years, as a Mature -Part time student, taking some time out to earn a wee crust as well, and ...

Especially for GCSE and A Level courses, find out at the beginning how much coursework you are likely to get over the two years so you are prepared for it when it is landed on you. Find out its deadline and mark it on your calendar/diary. I know you get other work from other subjects and you have to do that as well. When you get in from ...

One of the small but irritating things about being a student is that you have to carry about a lot of information. Now, unless you are some kind of very special genius, you will have to carry about a load of papers; files and notes of every description. Which way to go about this small but essential task? ...

When I was at school, it was fairly easy to keep on top of the work. The teacher spoon-fed you all the information, gave you related work and tested you on it later. This way as long as the teacher was a good one and you did the work, you had a reasonably good chance of passing your exams. However, University is completely different and it can be ...

I could try and waffle for 75 words about just being organised and making sure that you plan well and pace yourself, rather than leaving everything until the night before or hoping that someone else which did the course the year before will lend you their essay. However I do not advocate plagiarism, as the possible penalties far outweigh the ...