Help I need a kick in the A$$

[Basket Weaver]

I have a tight schedule to take 26 credits by mid June. I have scheduled my next exam for Feb. 5th and I have started study, but I seem to be having a really tough time getting down to it. I have found more excuses to procrastinate then carter has little pills(now I'm showing my age) . This is the first test in a very long time that I don't have any practice test for. I am finding it hard to gage my readyness and what I still need to study so I just procrastinate more. I am getting frustrated with the flashcards because it is hard to keep track of how many I know when it is so picky about words ( I write parental and it says wrong becaue the answer is parents)

So PLEASE can someone tell me what I can do to get over this hump and feel ready for this test.banghead

I think this will help...I know it did for me.

I went through the same frustration when typing in the answers as typing is not my strong suite and I sometimes misspelled words. I simply stopped typing in the answer and just ignored the big red WRONG when it displayed. In my head I knew I got it right. When doing it this way it is important to be honest with yourself. If I missed the question I wrote down the question number and reviewed it at the end of the test until I got it right...then I retook the entire test over again...in random order...until I aced the entire section. My key to perfecting the cards was extreme repetition...that's what I found to work; maybe I'm just a little slow on the old learning curve?


I found that I had better continuity and flow learning the cards without the distraction of typing. Try it and see if it helps.

At times the cards or a new subject seems a bit daunting...especially when it is a new subject in which you have no experience. Most of my Psych courses were brand new material but I was able to do well on them by focusing on each section of the cards until I had the basically memorized (the question and why the answer was correct). I would then move to the next section, memorize it, then go back to the beginning and run through each section again before moving on to the next. By the time I completed the last section I had been through all of them more than 10 times and had them down cold...that's when I knew I was ready for a test. It had been 20+ years since High School and I was able to do well on these just using IC & free practice exams I researched on the net.

You CAN do this, take it one section at a time and put everything else out of your head...before you know it, you'll have your coveted diploma in hand and enjoy a chuckle at the struggles you endured.