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Two finals, one day.
I'm sure this question has been asked a lot but I'm a little stressed about it-- how much harder will it be for two final exams to be on the same day?
They are pretty above average difficulty finals too as apparently one is a TON of writing while the other is a TON of memorization and I think both cumulative also.
If you must know, it's BPK (KIN) 110 with Bedoya and CRIM 135 with TBA?.
I've had two midterms on the same day last semester and it totally did not work out well. One ended up doing really great while the other fell to a 76-79% despite it being an extremely easy prof/course. But the finals were on different days and I aced both so it was clearly the same-day factor that killed me on the midterms. I'm scared :(
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Every semester I always tell myself I'll study consistently and not last minute. And then I don't. This time for sure though! Hopefully.
I'm a fourth year student graduating at the end of this year....and for the past 5 years, I'm proud to say I have not once started an essay or studied in advance for ANYTHING.
Every single essay I have written in the past 5 years was started the night before (in one of my fourth year courses...I wrote a 20 page essay in 6 hours, having done nothing in advance, not even finding sources...and I got an A on it).
ALWAYS study the night before. Roughly 2-3 hours of studying before an exam usually prepares me for anything. For me, it's that rush....when you know you have limited time, my mind usually kicks into overdrive and I work much faster. I could spend all week trying to write two pages...and in the last few hours, finish the remaining 18 pages.
I'm classifying myself as a fourth year student according to my number of credits. Although too less courses when I first entered university so it would take me five years to finish off my degrees.
Ah, it sounds like you also do not read textbooks. At this point, I've learned that I don't even need to buy them anymore, since usually they end up collecting dust. I'm a dual major in Communications and English.
For Communications (and any other related course), just listening to the professor is enough. As long as I write an essay related to a study that the professor is researching, they usually quite enjoy it. As for English, I just go find out what the themes are. I once did a pretty thorough presentation and final paper on a novel I had never even read one page of.
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Is that suppose to be an insult? I've taken fourth year business courses as well as criminology courses and I've found them easier to deal with than Communications courses.
For most business related courses, you only require a lower level of logic and reasoning to do well. Yes, for the general masses, its easier to get into arts and deal with it but its much easier to do extremely well in business/sciences in comparison to communications.
I would say that in general, the average science student has a tougher time than the average arts student but its a different story at the top. The upper "top percentage" of art students have a much tougher time than science students.
Also, science professors are easier to string around because they're generally more "simple". It's easy to do well in any major if you take the time to understand your professor's way of thinking and manipulate it. Even if you half ass an assignment....if it ties into the professor's research, it will get you a good grade.
Most professors are also researchers and they have their own thesis and conclusions. I've had some pretty bias professors that gave some students poor grades because their conclusions went against the professor's research results. If you just find out what the professor is interested in...what he/she believes in...and how strongly those beliefs in, its easy to focus your entire semester around that in order to control your own grades.