On studying, eating and de-stressing in the run-up to exams
I don’t think exams test the students fairly if only memory work is required to achieve the desired grades. Exams should test the accumulated knowledge of both lecture notes and extra readings.
During the exam period I always keep a store of chocolates to get me going or to keep me awake while studying.
The idea of achieving a final goal keeps me going and helps me give it my all.
If I need a break I go for a jog or a walk. Francesco Refalo, Bachelor of Laws, 1st year.
I think most lecturers prepare students well for the exams, so I think we will be tested fairly on the knowledge we learnt throughout the academic year. But some exams are based on memory work and I do not think it is fair on students.
During the exam period, I tend to eat more food, not always the unhealthy stuff though. Exam stress makes me want to eat more comfort food and snacks like chocolate.
Going out and leaving work and study behind me helps me to relieve stress. Meeting friends and enjoying their company helps to take my mind off exams. Rebecca Manduca, B.Sc. Midwifery, 1st year.
To get a good grade in most exams, unfortunately, you just need memory work. This is especially true when the questions are similar from year to year.
Having said that, I believe testing students on memory is the only way an exam can be conducted.
I do my best not to let exam stress affect my health and diet, but with the amount of work exams involve, especially here in Malta, it is hard not to be affected.
Playing football enables me to cope with exam stress. I find studying for long hours without any breaks to be counterproductive. Football helps to clear my mind and serves as an incentive to continue studying. Julian Bonello, B.Sc. Physics and Computer Information Systems, 4th year.
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Pule' Carmel
May 27th 2012, 14:30
Unfortunately, Education is based on " Information learnt" and this was always the case when I was a young lad moving from class to class.
When I joined the Royal Naval Dockyard, it was an Education based on " Knowldge sought" and so I sought whateve knowledge I needed walking from one ship to another and when a Problem arose , I sought to solve in in all the manners there exist to solve proactical problems.
I believe no young person atthe age of 20 needs a teacher if he waas brought up " seeking knowledge rather then seeking information!"
Unfortunately in my days at Vittoriosa all my teachers made me remember information I could read in a book, while the Royal Naval Dockyard trained me to face probems and seek solutions in any manner..
Once a friend of mine was on a contract in Libya working for an American oil firm. This Maltese man went to take off a tally from a large electric motor and not finding a philips scrwdriver in the workshop he went to his manager and said" I cannot find a screwdreiver and it appears we have none left!!"
The American Manager turned on this Maltes man and told him, " In the workshop there are steel rods and tools and grinders, GO AND MAKE A SCREW DRIVER AND IF YOU DO NOT MAKE ONE IN FIFTEEN MINUTES, GET THE FIRST PLANE BACK TO MALTA."
I am afraid Maltese education still advocates, learning information which one can read in a book but never prepares students to " GO AND SEEK A PROBELEM TO BE SOLVED AND SOLVE IT!!"
My philosophy of education to people around 20 years ols is so simple, " you think you are good, find a method to show me, you have four years time to do it!!"
Most of what we learn we do it on our own and we do not need teachers, only at primary and secondary schoold so we need teachers and here is my destiny, " As a young lad roaming the schools at Vittorisa, not a single teacher ever informed me that I could go to University. I found all this out on my own and sought to do so and what is more , without and stipends !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please think about what is real education and go and seek the real education and not the read information uttered in class.
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