How To Win As A Final Year Student

Title : HOW TO WIN AS A FINAL-YEAR STUDENT
Essays, exams and employment
Author : Phil Race
Publisher : Open University Press
State Published : Buckingham. Philadelphia
Year : 2000
Pages : 181
Price : RM 79.80
Time flies and when it feels only like yesterday you registered as a university student you are now in your final year. When you think it will be easier in final year everything seems to have double or more intensity and you are bound to complete numbers of tasks in different level in short time! Don’t panic just yet. This book will guide you, help you and soothe you along the way until you win at the end of your final year.
To start the ball rolling you must really understand what final year is all about. The introduction chapter serves well as a retrospection guide. This chapter helps you to decide what your ultimate goal in life is and how you plan to achieve them. In your attempts to get to your goal what are the challenges you are facing or might face or you think might creep up out of sudden. Using the 9 Diamonds method, you will have your goal in perspective and by drawing up challenges that is hindering you, you are now prepared to tackle them.
Time to be strategic! That is the first chapter. You must set your sights and to make it happens there might be some attitude changes that you need to do. It is important that you understand not all learning techniques that you deem efficient pays-off. Some of them might be time-wasting. Find out more about it in this book. Being a final year student of course you must have known a lot but knowing alone is not enough. You must show that you know! As stressful as you can already imagine being in final year you must work constantly to keep your stress level at par. And last but not least is your personal action plan on how you will survive this final year which you will find at the end of every chapter throughout the book.
Unlike previous years of your studies, the demand from your course increases in final year. Your level of thinking is expected to move a mark higher and you must show this improvement through your essays, dissertations and projects. Too much to handle? Calm down. This book will guide you on how to ‘eat an elephant’. It will help you to draft and redrafting efficiently and one of a simple technique you can start using is the egg diagram.
Moving into Chapter 3, it is time to discover your wrongs or spills as they are referred to in this book then your skills. Not just the skills you well known you have acquired but also to search deep and discover those skills you have ingrained in you but you have never used before and next groom all this skills to maximize your potential. For those of you who are not very familiar with internet and the usage of word processor, this chapter offer you a simple yet effective short course you can benefit from.
Is final year all work and no fun? That is for you to decide. This book however helps you to see all the serious revision you need to do in your final year in a different light that you will enjoy them and enhance your confidence more.
Finally it is your exam for final year. Perhaps it will be the last time you will sit for an exam like it. This book helps you to tackle those exams by showing you how to plan for your answers and to use your stress at your advantage and not otherwise.
After exam you might think of pursuing higher degree or working. This book lists the advantages and disadvantages of both choices thus help you see better where you are going and hopefully make a good decision from it.
Writing a CV for jobs applications is not easy for just anybody. You will learn what to do and what not to in writing your CV. Not just that this book helps you to manage your applications and if you are fortunate with an effective CV you might land on a good job you like!
Interviews can be nerve breaking for some of us. Relax… this book guide you from how to dress up to an interview until how you should answer when offered a job.
In the final chapter is the summary of the whole book in table form a list of 50 things to do in your final year including your studies, personal life, developing effective CV and job hunting.