Prep strategy a disaster - please please help me... Exam 3wk

[rkafc81]

ok thanks Stacey. I have 200 flashcards or so already... that's going to keep growing and growing unfortunately...

I have an example of takeaways that I've created. I'm thinking to put a "SIGNALS" thing in there to take note of the various signals in the problem that can be applied to help recognise other similar problems in the future:



should I actually just recreate this flaschard like the following:

"If I see a word problem with multiple unknowns, and am asked to solve for one of the unknowns, and the unknowns are related and in proportion to each other, what should I do?"

and the response would be:

"
1) Create a variable for the unkonwn I'm looking to solve for
2) Express the other unknown quantities in terms of this variable
3) solve
"

?

I'm thinking also that I should NOT redo questions again in the future (unless there's something I specifically need to practice like a specific technique) but rather, I should create takeaways and then revise the takeaways...?

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[jnelson0612]

Hi! Stacey is out this week so I am filling in for her. Okay, public service announcement over . . .

Wow! I actually like both the ideas of the signals and the flashcards. Would it be too much work to do both? Whenever I have students review quant problems I ask them to look for the elements of the problem that indicate what to do, and then to identify what they should do in that situation, which is kind of a hybrid of what you are doing.

Personally, I think there is great merit in redoing questions. I ask students to make a list of any question they miss, put the list away, and then work the problem cold in 7-10 days. It really tests that they have absorbed the lesson of the particular problem and gives them a chance to review and look at it again if they are still struggling.