By: Steve Patterson
Submitted: 2010-11-13 09:53:51 | Word Count: 541
Do you wish to score extraordinary marks in your ICSE papers? If yes, then start taking your classroom lectures seriously. Students should ideally start preparing for their final ICSE papers from the beginning of their academic session. To understand concepts better and make learning effective, students are advised to take their classroom lectures very seriously.
Students can make their classroom lectures interesting and make the most of it by following these tips.
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Prepare for the class well in advance! Before attending any class in school, students should prepare for it by reading up on the topic to be covered beforehand. To gain the maximum from these lectures and score well in the ICSE papers, students should obtain an understanding on the subject matter prior to attending the lecture. One of the main reasons that students shy away from certain subjects is absent/poor conceptual understanding. Many a times this may not be solely related to the complexity of the subject matter but also the manner in which a teacher delivers the lecture for the same in the class. In order to avoid situations such as these and make attending lectures for the ICSE papers interesting, students can study before-hand and be on top of the situation.
Listen well! Students by and large equate the activity of listening to a lecture as the process of making notes for the ICSE papers. Usually, students believe in mindlessly scribbling down whatever a teacher delivers during a lecture. However, this is not the right approach. The process of making notes should essentially only be a follow-up action after carefully listening and attending to the classroom lectures. This will not only result in effective understanding of concepts but will also facilitate the process of making quality notes for the ICSE papers.
Take notes carefully! In order to make the follow-up lectures interesting and also to ensure maximum retention of all the key points for the ICSE papers, students should prepare their own notes after each lecture. This will help students maintain their interest levels in a not-so-interesting topic as well since they will be hooked to the subject even after the lecture is over. This activity might seem boring to a majority of students at the first go, but it will be extremely beneficial to students while preparing for the final ICSE papers. Students should prepare structured notes wherein all the points are written in a ‘bulleted format’ with appropriate headings. Students are advised to prepare their notes for the ICSE papers in their own words. In order to make notes for the final ICSE papers crisp and brief, students can also choose to use abbreviations. To make learning effective students can support their classroom lecture notes with mind-maps and other illustrations.
Do not miss out on following up lectures! Students should regularly update their notes lecture-wise. This will equip students preparing for the ICSE papers with a set of complete and comprehensive notes for the final examinations.
Students can also seek help from websites that provide ICSE curriculum aligned revision notes. These revision notes are available in printable PDF format that can make learning during those final days just before exams even more effective.
