For the last two weeks I've been writing up my exam topics into notes for my exams. I have four of them: Psychology Research, Design & Analysis, Cognitive Psychology, Biological & Social Psychology and Theoretical Approaches to Forensic Psychology.
For PRDA it's open book which is awesome as there is
too much to remember for it - all the stats methods etc, but that is about our interpretation of the data which means we need to know what we have on our pages rather than just being able to copy everything.
For Cognitive Psychology it's a seen exam - we were given the questions last week and have to do one for each sections (design an experiment for section a and do an essay in section b).
For Biological & Social Psychology we have to critically analyse a research article (which we've prepared in seminars - there are four articles, three given in the exam and we analyse one in the exam) for section a and in section b we have to do another essay (we've had the ten topics narrowed down to seven and have been advised to learn four, though we only answer one - it depends on how good the question is for us)
For Theoretical Approaches to Forensic Psychology we have to do one essay for section a (we've had it narrowed down to four topics, I'm learning two) and another essay for section b on the assessment & treatment of offenders (there are three parts to that bit but I'm not sure what the question will be like so learning all).
PRDA is on Monday 14th. Cognitive Wednesday 16th. Biological Thursday 17th. Forensic Friday 25th.
I've started learning one topic (sleep) for Bio today. It's... not going well. I've been having to force myself to revise, and even though I started at about 3ish I've... not done much (I've gone over half of the topic but that's the shorter half). And I'm really worried that it's not going to be there tomorrow - I remember it now but will I remember it after I've slept? (Although one of our theories says that sleep helps our memory due to strengthening the neural connections). If I don't remember it (the majority) it'll feel like a wasted (part) day, which will be disappointing. I know I still have time but I'm learning in advance due to the volume I have to learn but also to help me learn it better. Just... all the feelings right now. Exams, why do you do this? :C I'd rather do another essay but as our lecturers say exams test different areas.
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