{"id":190,"date":"2014-05-17T11:32:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T11:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/sagestudents\/?p=190"},"modified":"2014-09-29T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T10:20:38","slug":"revision-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/sagestudents\/2014\/05\/17\/revision-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Revision Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have three exams coming up at the end of this term: Statistics, Environmental Hazards & Risks and Global Development & Inequality. Each exam is an hour long with a mix of multiple choice, longer questions and essay questions to answer. The Statistics exam includes calculations to do which is a little worrying as the last time I used maths was in year 10. Fortunately, I will be given the formulas in the exam so won\u2019t have to memorise things like chi squared and t-testing. I am concerned about running out of time on this exam and so have completed the practice test that is on the VLE under timed conditions. Whilst I did not score highly on this, I worked on the things that were incorrect and wrote a few pages of bullet pointed information taken from week 12\u2019s comprehensive review, also on the VLE.<\/p>\n

Preparation for Environmental Risks and Hazards involves looking back over lecture slides\u00a0 and compiling notes on the things I do not understand. I am also learning case studies for each topic such as examples of floods; what happened, why and how it was dealt with. I find revising for this topic a little dry as it\u2019s pretty well reading through the facts and noting down figures to use in the exam. The course closely follows ‘Environmental Hazards’ by Keith Smith:<\/span><\/p>\n

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And so it is a case of reading through each chapter again and trying to understand as much as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Revising for Global Development and Inequality is the module I am finding the most interesting at the moment. It is a seen exam so we have been given the questions already and must choose 2 out of 6 to answer. I have not done a seen exam before but it is fairly similar to doing a piece of coursework, just under timed conditions. As the exam is a little while away, I am still at the stage of reading and gathering quotes for an argument on the 2 questions I have chosen. There is a huge amount of reading material on Neoliberalism, Fordism and other stages of economic development and so it is a bit overwhelming trying to choose what to use when making an essay plan, especially as each essay must be written within half an hour. It is key to get a strong argument running throughout and, as we don\u2019t have to include a bibliography due to time constraints, this is the most important thing I am trying to plan for. I have taken information from the core books for the course ‘Key Concepts in Economic Geography’ by Yuko Aoyama et al. and also ‘Development’ by Payne and Phillips:<\/p>\n

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I’m now concentrating only on the subjects involved in the 2 questions I have chosen to answer. I am also using articles recommended by my lecturer\u00a0<\/span>which provide a different viewpoint to use in the exam.<\/p>\n

So these\u00a0are the first exams I\u2019ve done since A-levels – wish me luck!<\/p>\n

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