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| ***musical princess*** | May 31 2006, 04:08 AM Post #1 |
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I don't know where to start!! I have, in front of me, a HUGE amount of information, which my brain needs to absorb in the next few days. But i don't even know wher to begin. How on earth are you supposed to take in such a large volume of information over such a short space of time? Is there and easy way to remember stacks of information? My music exam is on monday and i just realised the magnitude of information i have to know and it is quite scary!! I have it layed out in piles across the kitchen table and i feel like i'm going to get swamped by it, sucked in and never seen again!! ![]() How on earth do people memorise such vast amounts of information? x |
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| DivaDeb | May 31 2006, 04:14 AM Post #2 |
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is this like...a term's worth of information? |
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| ***musical princess*** | May 31 2006, 04:36 AM Post #3 |
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Ha! I wish. It's a whole years worth. I just phoned a girl in my music class and we both had a bit of a mini panic together on the phone. No-one has really realised until now how much there actually is. :wacko: I don't really know where to start.I think i'll probs just make sure i can answer all of these questions that we were set in summary sheets (there's a couple of hundred for each othe the 6 set works... ) and then do a few essay plans.Yuck. x |
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| DivaDeb | May 31 2006, 05:31 AM Post #4 |
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It's easier if you learn it all year long. Finals are no big deal if you start preparing for them on the first day of school. (mom, teacher and former student wisdom that no one will ever pay attention to) May the force be with you.
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| ***musical princess*** | May 31 2006, 05:41 AM Post #5 |
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It's a bit late to be getting advice like that! ![]() No, but seriously, i couldn't even if i had wanted to. I've only had half of the lessons i should have had this year. My teacher has been off with cancer and all sorts of other personal problems and we never got any cover teacher so a huge chunk of the work we haven't even been taught. x |
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| Optimistic | May 31 2006, 06:01 AM Post #6 |
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All I can say is. . . this is good practice for when things get REALLY tough in university Buena suerte, MP! (especially your 6/6/06 exam) |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| LWpianistin | May 31 2006, 06:01 AM Post #7 |
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start with the stuff you REALLY don't know, then work backwards. what kind of music class is it? composition? music history? |
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| LWpianistin | May 31 2006, 06:03 AM Post #8 |
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| pianojerome | May 31 2006, 06:04 AM Post #9 |
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What did you study this year in this class? Which subjects? What did you talk about in each subject? |
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| Qaanaaq-Liaaq | May 31 2006, 06:46 AM Post #10 |
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Start reviewing the material that was covered at the beginning of the semester because that's what will most likely be forgotten by the end of the semester. It's easier to prepare for exams by memorizing a little each day starting from the beginning of the semester. Just add more and more to it as the semester goes by. By the time midterm and final exams roll around, you'll be ready for them. You won't be overwhelmed and have to pull late night cram sessions. Good luck. |
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| DivaDeb | May 31 2006, 11:12 AM Post #11 |
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Yes....but the question you asked was "How on earth are you supposed to take in such a large volume of information over such a short space of time?" and the answer is, you're not. Curricula are designed to be breathed in over the course of the entire year, not snorted in a cram session before exams. Nothing you can do now but try not to waste time on the stuff you are fairly certain of. Look objectively at the remaining material and try to root out what is more likely test material. Is the course theory, history, lit, what? |
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| ***musical princess*** | May 31 2006, 11:29 AM Post #12 |
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Thanks Debs. And everyone else who has replied. ![]() It's just music. So included in that is theory, composition, harmony, performing, the history of western musics... everything really. x |
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| pianojerome | May 31 2006, 12:14 PM Post #13 |
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What aspects of theory did you study? Intervals? Progressions? Figured Bass? Modulation? What aspects of composition did you study? Counterpoint? Form? Structure? What aspects of harmony? What aspects of performing? What aspects of history? Which styles did you study? Which composers? Any particular musical examples? Break everything down, and just try and figure out exactly what you studied. Go through the book, and look at and think about the titles of every chapter and section. Doing that, you might find that you actually did learn a lot more than you think you did, and just the process of thinking about everything and thinking about every little aspect that you studied might bring back a lot of memories. |
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| dolmansaxlil | May 31 2006, 01:40 PM Post #14 |
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MP - it really depends on how you learn. Since you're in a music class, and obviously have a musical mind, it may help to make up goofy songs or rhymes to help you remember lists of stuff, orders of things, etc etc. Most of us learned the alphabet to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, after all, and that method works really well for many people. If you are someone who learns more by talking things through with another person, then get together with your friend and study. Just make sure you use your time wisely. We also remember WAY more information if we teach it to someone else. What I would recommend is that you split up the information, each of you choosing the topics you feel you DON'T know well, then learn those topics well enough that you can teach them to the other. When you are teaching them, you'll actually be learning more of the information. Then, discuss points of it with your friend. For people who learn well by print, one good way to memorize information is to just write it down. A history teacher of mine once told us that we could bring one 8 1/2x11" sheet of paper into the exam, and we could put anything we wanted on it. It had to be one sided, and it had to be hand written. He suggested writing out the important parts of our notes, then doing it again making an effort to cut the amount of space used in half. Repeat until you can get all the really important stuff that you know you can't remember onto that one piece of paper. By the time you've done that, you actually don't need the piece of paper anymore (I don't know a single person who used this method that actually used their crib sheet). When I had to do a musicology exam in university, we had to know all kinds of stuff about different pieces of music (time signature, key, composer, movement, basic form, etc etc) and identify them by listening. I studied with a boyfriend who wasn't very musical. So we studied together and made up silly (usually rude) sayings that went with the main theme. He did very well, considering his lack of aptitude in the area. I got a ridiculously high mark because 1) it was something I was decent at anyways and 2) I taught him the material, so learned it more thoroughly myself. Good luck. I know you'll do just fine! |
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| DivaDeb | May 31 2006, 01:47 PM Post #15 |
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teaching it is an excellent idea, dol, if you have the time to do that. When I need to memorize lines, words of songs etc, I *have* to do what you said...write it out. After years of memorizing lyrics and dialogue in many different languages, that is always the first thing I do....crack the score and copy it by hand. It's worth my time and writer's cramp, I almost always know it once I've written it down. |
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| ***musical princess*** | May 31 2006, 02:04 PM Post #16 |
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That is such a good idea! I'm going to try it tomorrow!! I'm going to make up a poem ofallthe information i need and sing it along to Schubert's Unfinised Symphony. ![]() x |
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| LWpianistin | Jun 1 2006, 04:13 AM Post #17 |
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so, how's the studying going? |
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| ***musical princess*** | Jun 1 2006, 04:15 AM Post #18 |
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Heh... You know when you are told that you are going to die and you go through a range of emotions? Anger, depression, resolve, self-pity... Put it this way, right now i am in denial. ( )x |
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| LWpianistin | Jun 1 2006, 04:17 AM Post #19 |
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:lol: |
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