Studying for this exam is boring me to tears!

[myjohnson]

You don't need school to study crap.

You just need something to eat.

[Darbex]

Well online school as I will be in my Caribbean home got to stack the paper.

[Darbex]

Oh my dream is to get rich and go back to school. Study all kinds of crap.

[myjohnson]

It's to late for me man. I can't stand school anymore. I will literally be that guy who went nuts and shoot the place up if I went back to school.

[Darbex]

Never to late. I just notice your location funny

[myjohnson]

I wish I was an accountant.

[Darbex]

Heck getting an accounting degree barely prepares you for the tests. They dont call them the hardest tests for nothing. Funny thing is I know people that you wonder how they passed the test that is my motivation.

[myjohnson]

I know how you feel dude.

The exams I take don't even test you over what the professor teaches. And that's if they actually teach you anything.

[Darbex]

The problem with the CPA is they throw crap in there that was like the fine print and then make you write a memo about some small thing that was easy to miss.:furious:Just took my test today and I felt like I didnt study the right material. Stupid simulation.

[myjohnson]

I fine it more bearable to read boring stuff if I speed read over it.

[Darbex]

Its probably more that I cannot read boring crap for so long but I call it ADD. After about 1/2 to 1 hour I stop and go do something else like get on the box so much better.

[Complexity]

Still an hour on that one. Lots of videos with that one or I would have finished faster.

I'm calling it a night. Need to get some sleep. I just hope Piaget's theories don't give me nightmares!

[Complexity]

Page 240. Took an HOUR. So it's taking me an HOUR to go through 5 pages?! No wonder I'm hating this!

Thanks, myjohnson, for the tips. I may try them out at some point. I'm having to read this text more thoroughly because the professor has clearly stated that about 1/3 of the exam questions are from parts of the text that were not part of the lectures. Plus, she gives "chapter questions" that I have to answer. So I'm having to do more than just reading. I have to read, take notes, check the book questions, get the answers, type out the answers (in an easy to recall form with appropriate highlighting). And I'm integrating all of this into the lecture notes, as well. It's a royal pain.

The exam isn't until Tuesday so I still have tomorrow to study. Plus, I have a high average in the class so far. There are 4 exams total. I've taken 1. This will be exam #2. To make an A in the class, I can lose as many as 19.5 points (each exam is 50 points). This includes the extra credit which I've already done. So far, I lost just 1 point on exam 1. That puts me at a 105 average at the moment with a 18.5 point safety net. So I should do fine as long as I push through these chapters.

But I do need to learn how to do all of this work faster than I'm doing. I'm making great grades (all A's so far), but it's a lot of work. After this exam, I have 3 papers and 4 more exams to do in the following 2 weeks. I'm going to be busy.

[myjohnson]

Tip on how to read normal text book and process a lot of the "needed" information, from my experience anyhow:

1) Read the Index
2) Read the chapter headings
3) Read the Paragraph headings
4) Read and memorize all bold words where found/and or needed
5) read the little notes under pictures and graphs
6) Sit back and think about all of it. Try to thing of the subject in it's general context.
7) Go back to the beginning and read the what you read early, but this time read the first and last sentence of each paragraph.
8) If you don't understand what you are reading, then read the whole paragraph.

By doing this I found that I could read around 100 pages in 60 mins and memorize the important things.

The one thing I hate about text book reading was all the bull**** examples. But it beats reading case law any day of the week.

p.s. These are just general things I found that worked for me. I didn't really study anything hard so it may or may not work for you.

Good luck and hang in there. School sucks but the girls look good.

[Complexity]

Yup, normal text book. It's annoying in that it has a bunch of side comments (pictures with explanations) and tables interspersed throughout. So I'm constantly having to go back and forth to get it all in.

Okay, made it to pg 235. 2 sections done, 8 to go. My stomach isn't doing well, but it's stabling out a little.