Study and Exams, Part 2 – Strategies for Better Learning

Now we’ll look at strategies that you can apply to help you learn and understand the work better. There are many many different techniques you can use to help you remember the material, but basically you need to find the best way to manipulate that material in order for it to stay in your head.

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Study and Exams, Part 1 – Preparation

AIMS
This seven part course intends to cover:
Preparation
Strategies for better learning
Time Management
Getting the most of study time
The Study Toolkit
The Day of the Exam
Attacking Exam Questions

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Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry has some very interesting things to say:

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2 Down, 12 To Go!

Well, I took my F1 and F2 exams last week.  

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Working Hard…

Well, I have my first two exams in about 2 weeks time and an interview at one of the Big4 a week later, so I’m working hard on acing those exams so that I have a huge extra plus for my interview.

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Life Goal Number 1

My life goal is to see this with my own two eyes:

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Blue Tang

Acanthurus coeruleus

Introduction


The Blue Tang is part of the surgeonfish Family and is known by many different names; blue barber, blue doctor, blur tang, yellow barber and yellow doctorfish are a few examples.

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Decompression Illness/Sickness (DCI/DCS)

What is DCI?

The air you breath from your cylinder (as you should remember from your initial dive training!) is about 78% nitrogen. As you dive and the ambient pressure increases, some of that nitrogen is absorbed into your cells (I’m not going into partial pressures here, I’ll save that for another day!). As you release the pressure again, the nitrogen will come back out of your cells, make its way to your lungs by your blood stream and you breathe it out.

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My Little Sis…

Thought I’d write about my sister today, because I’m very proud of what she’s doing!  Her name is Shiryn and she is two years younger than me.

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Harp Seal

Pagophilus groenlandicus

Introductionharp1

Naturally this little silvery coloured seal lives to around 30 to 35 years, but they are commercially hunted for oil and fur.  They are usually hunted on their breeding grounds where they are at their largest concentrations which leads to the hunt as being the largest slaughter of marine animals in the world.

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