Professors' Guide<sup>TM<sup> to Getting Good Grades in College by Dr. Lynn F. Jacobs

Author:Dr. Lynn F. Jacobs
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061750489
Publisher: HarperCollins

EXTRA POINTER

If it happens that you aren’t in class the day the exams are passed back, make sure to pick up your exam at the next class or at the professor’s office. Professors are left at the end of the semester with heaps of papers and tests that for one reason or another have not been picked up. All these graded tests represent not just something to be tossed in the recycling bin, but a valuable resource that some students have just thrown down the tube.

Going over the test is also of great value in helping you improve your study techniques. Professors are creatures of habit and usually repeat the same kinds of questions—just with different subject matters—on future tests. So going over the test with an eye to how it was constructed, what level of difficulty it was on, how the point values were distributed, what the professor or TA took off for, and so on will put you in a position to do not just A+ but A++ preparation next time. Which of course will result in an A+++ exam.

But what really happens when you bite the bullet and go over your droppings (sorry, exam) is that you allow yourself to experience genuine intellectual growth. You simply learn better by seeing a single mistake corrected than a hundred check marks at places where you got it right. Especially if the mistake occurred at a particularly strategic point—for example, where your mind was centrally coming down on some issue, or applying a key concept, or drawing an important inference or conclusion. Seeing a mistake that you yourself—yes, you—have actually made can be one of the most important steps in your mastery of a subject or in your more general intellectual development. You now know exactly what piece you were missing. And you begin to see your college experience as a continuous learning process, not just a series of hurdles to be mindlessly jumped over.

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