Ex.2.15. Here are some idiomatic expressions about studying and exams. Use the context to guess what they mean and choose the right answer.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 729.
Ex.2.14. Study the following piece and rewrite the short text below using words and phrases from it.
| Before an exam you can revise or cramfor it. If the exam happens every year, you can look at past papers. Some things can be memorised or learnt off by heart. But rote-learning [learning purely by repetition] is not sufficient for most subjects. It is also possible to use mnemonics[tricks that help you remember sth]. But tricks alone are not enough, and the best idea is to bury yourself in your books until you know the subject inside out. |
When I'm preparing intensively for an exam, I don't see any point in looking up exam papers from previous years, nor is there any point in just learning things by memory. I know some people develop very clever memory tricks to help them remember the material, but there's no real substitute for re-reading and doing over the term's work. It's a good idea to have some sort of mind-map to organise your ideas, and memory-learning is useful, but in a limited way. At the end of the day, you just have to read a huge amount until you feel you know the subject 100 per cent.
1 It's very easy to fall behind with your studies if you miss even just a few classes.
a) stay close behind other students
b) find yourself far behind other students
c) get ahead of other students
2 She seemed to just breeze through the exams. Everyone else was in such a panic and almost had nervous breakdowns.
a) do them calmly and efficiently
b) not take them seriously
c) cheat in them
3 I just can't seem to get the hang of English prepositions. Just when I think I've learnt them I make new mistakes.
a) memorise
b) understand
c) enjoy
4 When I sat down and looked at the exam paper my mind just went blank. Everyone else seemed to be writing away quite happily.
a) became confused
b) became very focused
c) became empty
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