{"id":1376,"date":"2017-12-05T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/sagestudents\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2017-12-05T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T16:44:39","slug":"second-year-prep-andre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/sagestudents\/2017\/12\/05\/second-year-prep-andre\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Year Prep – Andre"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to find out how second year students prepared to take on their first term, we’ve once again distributed one of our surveys. As a second year myself, I thought it may be a good idea to in fact reflect on how I ended up approaching my second year preparations. So I\u2019m going to share with you how I would have responded to these questions. (p.s. if you\u2019re a student and reading this, take a few minutes to fill out the survey –\u00a0<\/a>there\u2019s \u00a370 worth of prizes at steak!<\/strong>)\u00a0All of my responses (as usual) are 100% truthful.<\/p>\n

2. Was your reading list available before the start of the second year?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honestly I don\u2019t actually know (I didn\u2019t look).I knew I wasn\u2019t going to buy any of the books before I started (waiting for the student loan), but also it was unlikely I was even going to buy one, so I decided to wait it out to see which were really essential to the course.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Did you use any of the following resources to prepare for your second year?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The resources I\u2019d say I used the most are talking to other students (even if you feel you know everything) someone may ask a question that you don\u2019t even know the answer to, meaning you need to find out, but also things can be understood easier when coming from a friend. I didn\u2019t utilise any of the listed resources.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Do you wish that you’d done more preparatory reading before you started your second year?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wish I had done more preparatory reading prior to my second year as it isn\u2019t really necessary\/relevant until lectures begin. Some lecturers will overload you with reading resources however may only require you to read a particular relevant page, so it is often better to take the recommended reading from the lecture, the guide your additional reading by what\u2019s relevant to your assessment.<\/p>\n

In short, from this BA Geographer\u2019s point of view, pre-reading is still unnecessary for the course, however once the course begin, the right ones are the backbone of your studies.<\/p>\n

This has been Andre \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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