How to Manage Your Science and Technology Degree (Palgrave Study Guides)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Your degree......Page 10
The structure of your degree programme......Page 12
The wider aspects of your degree course......Page 14
How to use this book......Page 15
The relationship between undergraduate work and your earlier forms of studying......Page 19
The differences between earlier studying and a degree......Page 22
Taking a wider view than in your pre-university studying......Page 24
Making connections between lecture courses, experiments, ideas, theories and equations......Page 26
Assessment procedures......Page 30
3 Maximising your Learning Opportunities......Page 39
How to read textbooks effectively......Page 40
The need for mathematics......Page 41
Your personalised study plan......Page 42
Reading lists and how to use them to your advantage......Page 46
Using your own initiative......Page 50
Information technology......Page 52
How to read: a guide for the undergraduate......Page 57
4 Making the Most of your Time......Page 60
Managing your first six weeks as an undergraduate......Page 61
What can be achieved in the time available to you......Page 67
Vacations and how to make the most of all that time......Page 70
The mature student experience......Page 74
Lectures and how to use them......Page 79
Tutorials and how to use them......Page 88
What do the marks mean?......Page 91
Making choices......Page 94
Further choices......Page 95
Coursework versus examinations......Page 98
Practicalities in making choices......Page 99
Combined degrees......Page 101
Choosing for the future......Page 103
6 Beyond the Studying......Page 105
Peer group pressure......Page 106
Career placement opportunities......Page 111
Successful student finances......Page 115
Additional opportunities within university......Page 121
The emotional roller coaster of a degree......Page 126
The secret of discovering what is wrong......Page 128
Your personal tutor......Page 134
Getting feedback......Page 137
Overcoming specific problems......Page 138
Coursework and examination timetabling......Page 142
Revision timetabling......Page 144
Revision and examination technique......Page 148
How to cope with the post-examination anticlimax......Page 155
Postgraduate possibilities......Page 156
Your career strategy......Page 161
Breaking into the career market......Page 165
Conquering the paperwork......Page 171
Interviews......Page 178
Recommended reading......Page 182
N......Page 183
V......Page 184