I hope everyone had or is still having an awesome spring break. I am still in NYC, but I didn't forget about our blog assignment.
Reading is never fun, at least for me. Staring at that black and white substance can be more painful than anything, especially in college where those substances amount to 3 digit number of pages. But, you have to admit that without consistent reading, you won't be very happy with your test results. Even knowing this fact, I sometimes fail to finish the reading assignment due to its enormous length.
College courses are much different from than that of high school. Some courses are held only once a week and that can leave the professor with only one choice: reading assignment. To be successful in these kind of courses, you not only have to attend the course but also be on a good pace with the reading assignments. For example, my CFS388 course is a course held once a week. You miss the course for that week, you are doomed, but if you fail to complete the reading assignment as well, it will result in a devastation, because you just lost 7% of what the course will cover. To prevent this problem, I decided to input one of CLS reading strategy: TART (Term, Attend, Read and Test)
TART strategy is actually quite similar to what I've been doing so far. The first part of the strategy: term is where you preview the material before the lecture. What I originally did was a general preview of the lecture that would be held in the future, but what CLS strategy here concentrated on were terms. You will find the chapters of the future lecture and find the glossary section of it and preview the terms that might have a good chance of being mentioned by the professor in lecture.
The second part, of course, is to attend the lecture and attempt to find the terms that are actually being mentioned. I think this part is the most important, because if you are able to find the terms that both you thought it would come out and it does come out, it is more than likely going to be on an exam. The third part is to read the lecture notes before going on to the painful reading assignment. Reading lecture notes first is much more effective because this could narrow down the reading assignments into half of its size. After I finish reading the lecture notes, I pick out the important parts in the reading assignments and read them. And now, I would finally get to the final step: TEST.
The two courses that I chose to use this strategy were CFS388 and ECN203. Both courses handle terms and definitions as the main part of the exam. And these two courses have the most complicated terms out of all the course I am taking right now. The TART strategy cannot be any better for these kind of courses.
I see that you used TART on your CFS class and studied for the midterm we had before Spring Break. I am impressed at your test questions and notes because a lot of the test questions I remember are seen in your documents! Again, another TART user and I think you did a great job on it! Good work!!
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see that you have applied the strategy before the Spring Break began. I am flattered by the level of organization of your notes and exam questions. Although I don't take CFS, i feel that I already learned a lot from just skimming your documentation. It's good to see that so many people used the same strategy as me and worked very efficiently. You did a great job agent JERRY~!
ReplyDeleteTART strategy seems very popular among my fellow students. It's easy to follow and adapt to your current reading habit. I think that's what makes this strategy works. You don't have to really change your reading habit much but by adapting this strategy it enhances your reading amount and efficiency. Good strategy to your reading.
ReplyDeleteTART does help you learn the definitions and terms in a way that you learn them a lot. Before the lectures, you look over your textbook for the key terms, then you look over your lecture notes, then you read the materials that are to be covered. Your notes seem to be organized and easy to read. I am glad to see that this strategy is working out on you perfectly.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! Whoa! Whoa! It really lookes like that everyone LOVES the TART strategy. Everybody is using the TART strategy for their two classes. And the strategy is actually really helpful to everyone. Good to hear. It is good to hear that you have been using the TART strategy before you learned it in CLS class. This means that you have been reading the text before class, and reviewing the materials after class. Well, there is nothing more that I can say, because you should know better than me then. Good job.
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