For uol, study tips?

[whereto]

I am taking these units:

Introduction to economics
Statistics 1/Maths 1
Principles of Accounting
Principles of Sociology

Have anyone who has graduate from these foundation units brought any textbook and which are the one? Any tips on scoring better?

 

[SoppyDog]

I am taking these units:

Introduction to economics
Statistics 1/Maths 1
Principles of Accounting
Principles of Sociology

Have anyone who has graduate from these foundation units brought any textbook and which are the one? Any tips on scoring better?

Start Early! (or at least do some casual reading from the get-go.)

I'm assuming this is your first year..most yr1 students will think that you can cram and mug for your exams in the last month or so. This will lead to terrible results i assure you.

Whack the past year papers. Use the examiner's commentary as a guide. These will be your bread and butter to handling their exams..

finally, welcome to UOL ..

 

[low_key_goer]

Start Early! (or at least do some casual reading from the get-go.)

I'm assuming this is your first year..most yr1 students will think that you can cram and mug for your exams in the last month or so. This will lead to terrible results i assure you.

Whack the past year papers. Use the examiner's commentary as a guide. These will be your bread and butter to handling their exams..

finally, welcome to UOL ..

True. Practising the past year papers really helps alot especially for quantitative units. With practice, you should be able to do well for maths1/stats1, intro to econs and poa.
I'm not so sure about PSOC though since i've never taken it. Maybe it's more of reading the essential & further readings for the qualitative units.

 

[whereto]

Thank you so much for the tips! Will tackle those past year exam papers. Btw, just to ask, will there be repeated questions appearing in the exam? And also, there are zone A and zone B for the past year papers, what are those?

 

[low_key_goer]

Thank you so much for the tips! Will tackle those past year exam papers. Btw, just to ask, will there be repeated questions appearing in the exam? And also, there are zone A and zone B for the past year papers, what are those?

From my experience, more or less some of the qns will be rather similar to past year exam qns. (especially for quantitative units)
Zone A and B basically means two different sets of papers for different regions.
I think Zone A is for those taking the exam in America/Europe and Zone B is for those taking the exam in Asia. In S'pore, you will be taking the Zone B paper.

 

[whereto]

Thank you low_key_goer, that sure helps alot as it gets confusing for me, thanks again!

 

[kaysee]

Start Early! (or at least do some casual reading from the get-go.)

I'm assuming this is your first year..most yr1 students will think that you can cram and mug for your exams in the last month or so. This will lead to terrible results i assure you.

Whack the past year papers. Use the examiner's commentary as a guide. These will be your bread and butter to handling their exams..

finally, welcome to UOL ..

is 2 and a half month sufficient to prepare for exams? Cos im a part time student. Thinking of taking a break from work and focusing on revisions starting from march till exam.

 

[zannnzannn]

is 2 and a half month sufficient to prepare for exams? Cos im a part time student. Thinking of taking a break from work and focusing on revisions starting from march till exam.

trust me, its NOT enough!you should try to start at least Jan. also depending on how many modules you are taking. some modules are really tough
and for those essay based units, i will strongly encourage people to really go and try to read textbook, although almost all of us hate it but it really helps!

 

[kaysee]

trust me, its NOT enough!you should try to start at least Jan. also depending on how many modules you are taking. some modules are really tough
and for those essay based units, i will strongly encourage people to really go and try to read textbook, although almost all of us hate it but it really helps!

oh shucks man. Im taking the 4 foundations. Hmms so u recommend i get the textbooks that lecturer recommend? Seems like not many ppl selling uol textbooks on forums leh. Rmit alot

 

[zannnzannn]

oh shucks man. Im taking the 4 foundations. Hmms so u recommend i get the textbooks that lecturer recommend? Seems like not many ppl selling uol textbooks on forums leh. Rmit alot

eh, u really have no time. trust me, somemore your 4 surely got some hectic one. you better plan your time propetly.

no need to buy, just borrow from the library. some text book also not good too.but provided u got time to do so.

 

[Bedokian]

Always read your notes/recommended text after the lecture, preferably within the same week. And seek to understand, rather than memorise.

 

[whereto]

Will there be any penalty if i memorise the whole lot of notes or from textbook for the exam?

For intro to econs and sociology, how many textbooks do i usually need to pass well?

Also, for 2 marks question, how much should i answer? One line? And for 4 marks and above? More than 4 lines?

 

[Bedokian]

Based on my knowledge of the syllabus 13 years ago (may change now....read the subject guide), UOL exams do not have your usual straight-to-the-point exam questions.

Please note that it is recommended to read the recommended text (or else the examiners will not choose them in the first place).

Especially in Intro to Econs, your fundamentals and knowledge of the analysing tools must be strong. Go read up the past exam papers and you will know why.

As for exam question marks and how much to answer, your lecturers can advise you on it.

And yes, one more thing, the examiners dislike rote learning (what I had heard back in the late 90s, and I guess they dislike so even now). Which is why I mentioned earlier - seek to understand, not to memorise.

 

[b3autifulm3]

Hi.

1)When do you start tackling past year papers and any tips to memorize past year papers answers? When do you start memorizing them?

2) Do you have to write all of your notes and answers in own words?

3) anymore useful study tips?