#6 weeks into daily coiny and THIS is it

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(almost) daily coiny #42

I HAVE LESS THAN HALF AN HOUR AND I HAVE TO GET UP EARLY FOR THE NEXT 3 DAYS FORGIVE ME 😭

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Studying

Tutorials

Questions to Ask During Office Hours

Tips for a good study session

Taking Notes

Anki

Reading Textbooks

Tips

Take good notes and organize them

Go to office hours 2-3x a week

Start studying 1 week before each exam

Take practice exams and repeat until you earn 100%

Make a study schedule to incrementally review the material over 2 weeks

Essay Phrases

Complex

Normalize

Exploring

Deconstructing

Bodies

Juxtapose

Reimagining

Paradigm

Systems

Binary

Refnwrite.com useful phrases

Instead of implies/suggests: illustrates, insinuates, exemplifies, epitomizes, establishes, reinforces, accentuated, symbolizes, encapsulates, evokes, conveys

Study Strategies

Go to office hours

Do all practice test problems

Organize notes

Tutoring

Review sessions

Extra credit

*Flowtime

Active recall (verbal recitation)

Mapping, color coding, and drawing symbols

Redraw diagrams

Make a Quizlet as you go

Clarify confusing terms and concepts using the textbook

2500 Word Essay

Divide word count by number of paragraphs you think you need to make your point

Also factor in the intro and the conclusion

1. Introduce idea: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

2. Introduce idea: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

3. Introduce idea: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

4. Introduce idea: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

5. Introduce idea: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

Primary evidence: 100 words

Secondary evidence: 100 words

Essay Writing

Brain dump

Start organizing into sections or paragraphs

Then edit

Use rubric headers and put requirement bullets underneath

Put info from syllabus and lectures into the headings

List sources under the relevant section

PowerPoints

Use fonts Coiny and Lemon (@googleslideideas)

KG font

Chelsea Market font

Short Stack font

Homemade Apple don’t

Bbhenrycole font

AG resting teacher face don’t

Math/Science Problems

Draw a pic if possible

Write down all knowns, unknowns, relevant equations

Figure out an approach to solve

Reading Articles

Print out

If you’re totally lost, color code and make a legend

OChem

Clayden textbook 2-3 hours per exam

2-3h reviewing lecture slides and examples

4 hours doing practice problems from a review book

4-6 hours of YouTube vids

8-10 hours of all types of practice problems

Pharm Courses

Read thru the chapter that will be coveted next week without taking notes, write down questions in pencil on a sheet of paper 

Spend 30 minutes looking into the questions you came up with

Do all the example questions in the book that are embedded in the chapter

Outline the entire chapter, highlight in textbook, sticky notes for hard parts in the textbook

Do a few chapter problems daily

While doing practice problems, have a sheet where you write anything you get in red, anything you already know in green that’s important, and blue things that you need to remember but makes sense