Re:What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League educ...
by WalterBright on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @06:10PM
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What worked for me (Caltech) was to make sure I understood 100% of all the homework problems front to back, before going in to the exam.
Living in the dorms helped enormously with this, because I could usually find someone to help me with particular problems, and I sorely needed that help.
Anything less meant I was in deep doodoo on the exam :-) because that's the wrong time to try to figure out how to apply what was learned in lecture.
This was good enough to reliably get a B. To get an A, I had to work much harder and go beyond the homework.
Living in the dorms helped enormously with this, because I could usually find someone to help me with particular problems, and I sorely needed that help.
Anything less meant I was in deep doodoo on the exam :-) because that's the wrong time to try to figure out how to apply what was learned in lecture.
This was good enough to reliably get a B. To get an A, I had to work much harder and go beyond the homework.