Saturday, October 8, 2011

get ready for exam

This week I used source outline, topic outline and Q&A map to help me review the exam of understanding of music. I never thought about this course can be so hard because it includes the field of every aspect of history.

The reason why I choose source outline and topic outline is there are too many contents on the class so I think I need to have a well planed organzation of what I have learned. Firstly I made the source outline, I seperate the material in textbook, class packet(equal to class notebook) and listerning part on the blackboard. Then I put each exactly page number under classes by the sequence. After I did this I found I know what material should I used clearly and seems like I have distinct direction.

For the topic outline,  I first divided them in to three big part-----baisc music knowelege, ancient music and medieval music. So you see I have a outline of what should I learn, then I plug different small point related to the topic, for example for the medival music I should know the education, drama and instrumental at that period. on the other hand it is also a good materials for answer and qustion.

Nest thing I do for exam is Q&A map, the impoetant thing I learned is not I canremeber the knowledge point after I finished the chart but during the process you already knew the every point you should remeber. You will be surprised that when you finished the chart you have knew all the thing you your mind.
Before this experiment, I usually did not know what should I do for the exam because I always have a lot of thought about what should I do right now. However, I realized when you did the thing step by step you will make your work more effiency.

2 comments:

  1. well done. my group member did a great job. she well organized her preparation of her exam. it is not only well organized, but it is very specific. every day she knows what she is going to do. they are really specific. for her exam, i think she will do well and achieve good grade.

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  2. you're really well organized jiayi! the outlines you created really do a good job of laying out which points you need to hit when studying.

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