#resit

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Hi! Thanks so much for the compliment :) in university I’ve had to do a couple resits so you could say I had to raise my grade for those classes. I hope you’re looking for advise to study for resits and not for raising a grade during the semester. :)

Allow yourself to relax after your finals: go on a vacation, meet with friends, do fun stuff. Do everything but school related stuff. Just forget about school for a bit. 

But, it’s important to know when you have to start studying again. Relaxing for a month and then making a planner could end up giving you time management issues. You could make a planner a couple of days into your summer holidays: how many days would you ideally take to study the subjects and how many days do you need to prepare for the actual studying? Based on that, you can make a planner and know how much time you have to relax without getting yourself into trouble.

It’s important to figure out why you failed. Depending on what caused my bad grade, I’ll have a different approach.

Failing because I studied too little

It’s important to take your time now that you’re able to! Make sure that when making a planner, you plan enough study time this time to pass.

If the resit is for a course you took in the first semester (so often almost half a year ago), do not underestimate how much you’ll have forgotten! I made this mistake last year. I thought I wouldn’t need a lot of time to study for my resit, ‘because I had already seen the course’, but boy, I barely knew anything anymore. 

Failing because I had too little time to catch up on the course during the semester

When I had too little time during the semester to catch up on certain classes, I sometimes decided to focus on the rest and do the other class during the summer.

You’ll have to learn an entire course by yourself in one month or a couple of weeks, so it’s important to start on time!

It comes in handy to have passive knowledge, which I find more helpful than just starting to study a subject from scratch without knowing what the course is actually about. You could watching class recordings, read the textbook or a summary, etc.

If you decide to drop a course during the semester and do the exam in the summer, you got to have the discipline to study during summer holidays! If you know that you won’t study, please don’t use this method! A friend of mine has been using this method for two years: she only takes a couple of exams and she’ll do the other courses during the summer, BUT then she’ll say she doesn’t feel like studying during the summer holidays and thus she doesn’t do her resits. This is not a good method!

If you do decide to drop a class, I’d advise you to still take the exam. By doing that, you know what the exam will look like when you’re taking it in the summer (multiple choice, essay questions, etc.).

Failing because you hate the subject

If you’re having a hard time with a subject because you don’t find it interesting, make sure to pick enough days to study! 

By spreading the amount of work, you’ll have to study for a couple of hours a day and then you can reward yourself with some relaxing time. You’ll have to get through the subject anyhow, but if you give yourself only a couple of days to study ‘to get it over with’, you won’t be motivated if you have to study a subject you dislike for hours on end.

Failing because I did not understand the course material

Understanding a course takes time, so start on time!

Ask yourself if your previous study method worked. If not, change it.

At my university, some classes are recorded. Those recordings can be very useful to rewatch if the teacher can explain the course in a clear and understandable way. If not, don’t waste time rewatching! 

You could try studying from the textbook if that’s a method that suits you. Textbooks are sometimes more clear than the explanation of a professor. But, be sure what study material you have to know to pass: does the professor expect you to know the textbook, or is the textbook background information and do you need class notes to pass, because not everything the professor says is written in the textbook?

Look up videos on YouTube, there are a lot out there!

You could ask for the link to the recordings of the same class taught by another teacher who is actually capable of explaining things clearly

Ask a family member to tutor you if they know a lot about the subject

Try to find old exam questions and try to solve them 

Ask your teacher if he/she could send you more exercises

While studying, focus on the parts you’re having the most difficulty with. But, if you’re really not understanding a subject or two, leave them be. It’s better to know 80-90% of the course really well than spending too much time on 20-10% and not having enough time to cover the rest of the course in depth.

Failing because I made avoidable mistakes on the exam

Go look over your exam to see where you went wrong. Don’t just assume ‘it’s because I studied too little’ or something like that, you might have made mistakes that cost you a lot of grades, so by looking over your exam, you’ll know which mistakes not to make  again!

Write down which mistakes you made and what the correct answer is. Try to understand why your answer is wrong. There is no use in just learning the correct answers by heart.

Reread / study what you wrote down before your exam and write it down on a piece of scrap paper as soon as your exam starts.

Failing because I had too little time on the exam

On your exam, start with the questions that will get you the most grades IF you know the answer to those questions. For example, if there are two essay questions  that are 60% of your grade, and twenty multiple choice that are 40% of your grade, start with the essay questions first! 

If you don’t know the answer to those questions, start with the questions you do know. Don’t waste time, instead spend more time on trying to get all the grades on the questions you do know. If you have time left, try to write down what you know for the questions you left open.

Learn from why you failed. If you spent more time having fun during the semester (which is also important, don’t get me wrong) than studying, try to re-evaluate for next semester. 

All the concept updates can be find here.

1)Fabric that fits in my concept

For my concept, I want to re-use old Woo hah merchandise however they did not have any merchandise left over. So for the next try, I am going to contact 032c for leftover fabrics.

I bought a color-sensitive coating to use on the fabrics, which I can experiment with as well.

2)Mosh pit survey questions:

How do you identify yourself? At which festivals and concerts do you mosh? Is your festival or concert outfit important to you? If you're at a festival for a few days, do you want your clothing to be dirty after the first mosh pit? If there would be a way to make moshing more interactive, for example with color-sensitive fabric, would you be interested? Is it a problem if you get hurt in a mosh pit? What are your favorite mosh artists and songs? \What does moshing mean to you? What is a disadvantage of moshing? What is an advantage of moshing? How can the experience of moshing be more fun for you? How can the experience of moshing be more functional for you? The most important question is: How would you describe the feeling of moshing? Would you like to add anything to the survey?

3)Mosh report:

The link shows a better quality view of the MOSH REPORT: https://venngage.net/ps/M8ba2diU5ak/mosh-report

4)Mosh fun concept:

What:

A mosh collection for female moshers based on what they would like to have improved. Exploring how functionality and playfulness work together to eventually improve the experience of moshing at festivals and concerts to make it even more fun.

Why: Moshing is supposed to be an aggressive but fun kind of dancing. It's not about being protected in a mosh pit because that's not why we mosh. It's about the feeling of being alive and the adrenaline that fuels through our bodies when we mosh and listen to the artists who put all their energy into their performance.

good morning everybody! resit number two happens today, so that’s what I’ll be studying today. the sun is shining gloriously and I am all set with my copious amounts of caffeine. let’s pray that today goes as well as yesterday! I’m definitely feeling more relaxed about it but I’m trying not to let myself get complacent because that would be very bad.

good luck if you’re studying, if not then enjoy the lovely weather! xx

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Hey! I’m really sorry to hear that your exam didn’t go well. Unfortunately, this happens to a lot of students; it doesn’t mean you aren’t a good student and won’t do well in the future. Out of the people I know well from med school, for example, only one person had never failed an exam.  So, yeah, it’s much more common than most people think. Exams are tough, and sometimes we don’t do as well as we’d like, and we have to learn from them. The first step is to remind yourself that it’s not just you. It hurts, and it can be embarrassing, but it gets better and pretty soon nobody will care whether you failed a couple of exams or not. So hang in there. 

First, you need to take your mind off it for a short time. I’d take some time to do things like:

spend time with friends and family

indulge your hobbies and interests

pick up that book/series/game you’ve been putting off

go on holiday, or shopping, or whatever indulgences you enjoy and can afford.

re-establish your daily routine.

Take walks, do some exercise, do things that make you feel alive.

clean your workspace or living space- you don’t have to make it spotless, but make it livable enough that it doesn’t get you down. I find cleaning after oncalls or exams makes me feel human again.

For a short period. You don’t need to start revising straight away; it often helps to take a break for a few days to gather your bearings. During revision, we normally put the rest of our life on hold, but that’s not good for our mental health or general wellbeing. So don’t put yourself on hold for too long; you need to be you, too. This is also the time to seek help from uni or your GP if you are struggling; try to get on top of what in your life might have contributed to your exam problems, and try to be honest with university abut why that is. They can help you and they can accommodate you if you are struggling, so please don’t suffer alone.

Then, get feedback from university if you can. About why you failed, and which topics are letting you down, if possible. That’ll help you plan your future revision. If not, you’ll have to go by how you felt about the exam.

When it comes to revising, revision buddies can be helpful; some use their friends that passed, others hang out with other people who didn’t pass. Don’t spend too long revising with others; revising alone is usually more high yield, but revising with others can be good for working on concepts that you are stuck on. You can always contact your lecturers if there are topics you really struggled with; that’s another way to work through a ‘jam’ if you’re just not getting a topic or concept into your head.