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Originally Posted by Epiphany.
Oh god, physical geology. You go into that class thinking it's just rocks, and then you realize that there's a heck of a lot more to it. I just finished that class and while I did manage to bring my grade up to an A in the end, it was the hardest class I've ever taken.
The first thing I had to do was talk to the professor, and I strongly suggest you do that too. I think your professor will understand that the material is not easy, and he may give you suggestions on how to improve your study skills or at least re-explain some things that you aren't really sure of.
Is ALL of the information on the review going to be on the test? My professor gave review sheets but they were basically just listing the concepts we should know, and she expected us to study based on that. We had to pull the important parts of the topics out of our lecture notes and textbooks, which may seem hard at first, but with practice you'll get there. Obviously it's important to know the concepts and it can help to try and pull the most important concepts out.
Studying with other people can also be a blessing. You have note cards, so if you're able to condense the information perhaps someone will be able to quiz you?
-Dez
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Hey Dez, thanks for responding. Our first test was ~80 questions. I'd say that most of the information on the review sheets made it into the test either explicitly or implicitly. That is, if you weren't familiar with multiple topics on the review sheets, you wouldn't be able to answer the questions. There's also a lot of specific information that is you need to know. That is, some of the questions you really couldn't use reasoning to derive the answer. You either knew it or you didn't.
The concepts and big picture is easy for me. It's just the minute little things that I have trouble remembering which may have broke my test grade. My problem is I'm very math, physics, and chemistry oriented (apart from organic). I am a numbers person. I get concepts, and I can problem solve. 4.0 GPA, (you need a 3.8 for the engineering program I'm in) but this is the first class that I currently have a B in. Not that it's some huge problem. But I can't allot more time to this class than I already do. I just suck at memorizing and have no idea how to get through it. My mind can memorize about 20-30 things a day and then it's like, "nope" and shuts down and will actually start dropping information out....
Anyways, I'll talk to him on Tuesday. Thanks.