1. Attend as many lectures and tutorials as you can. They give you the opportunity to meet with your lecturers and other students and ask questions as they come to mind.
2. Read your course outline for each course. It has all the information you will need.
3. Before each lecture, print off any slides that the lecturer has put on Blackboard and read over them. Print off the slides as 'notes' with three slides to a page, as shown below.
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4. The goal each week is to have a complete set of lecture notes for each topic. This means:
These are called your master summaries which you can use for review and exams. Master summaries alleviate the need to re-read your text book chapters and/or course readings again, and leave you with a manageable set of notes from which to work.
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