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As I’m soon to take my first assessment of the year, I thought now would be a good time to come to you with a post on a method I find useful for fully understanding concepts and explaining them on exams. It can be very frustrating when you know a fact, but you lose marks because you don’t fully cover all the details of a the concept. This method, I hope, can help with that.

I call this method the ‘what? why? how?’ method and it is pretty much what it sounds like! Essentially, to ensure you’re covering all the needed details, you format your responses to first explain what occurs in a situation, then why this occurs, and finally how it happens. It is especially useful when applied to processes in sciences such as biology and psychology (descriptive sciences). 

To help you understand better, here’s a scaffolded example of how you might formulate an exam response using this method:

Question: Explain the role of the spinal reflex.

Answer plan: What - unconscious response. Why - to react to stimuli quickly, which can minimise harm. How - by stimuli not travelling as far.

Final answer: The spinal reflex is an unconscious response which allows a faster reaction to stimuli compared to reactions controlled by the brain. This is useful as it can minimise time exposed to harmful stimulus. The spinal reflex achieves this faster reaction time by allowing the stimulus to travel less far - to the spinal cord and back rather than to the brain and back - minimising the time it takes before a motor signal can be sent back to initiate a response.

I hope this strategy is useful to some of you to maximise the marks you receive on exams (I know I’ll definitely be using it today!). It could also be used as a way to structure your notes when learning concepts, as it can be a good way to ensure you actually understand a concept, rather than just remember a definition. If you like, I’d love if you tagged me (#heystormstudy) in pics of notes which you’ve tried this out in!

Wish me luck for my test today! Emma :)

You ever see a pretty dress, a well-organised notebook, a peculiar balcony or read one line of poetry and get the overwhelming urge to reinvent yourself

going to be posting my tips on poetry annotation soon after my poetry oral exam tomorrow, thanks for the lovely feedback on my recent post! 😚

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You’ll be seeing lots of python notes since it’s what I’m focusing on this summer.

App: Noteshelf 2

Device: iPad 2018 and Apple Pencil

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barcelona, march 2019.