A Giant Boatload of Final Exam Tips (Ep. 104)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Finals are coming up in a few weeks, so we basically just wanted to dump as many tips for acing them on you as possible. This episode goes over study schedules, effective review, test anxiety, catching up on homework near finals, and more. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: College Info Geek Test Prep Videos Prisoner's dilemma (video) Good, fast, cheap - pick two Study on writing down fears before the start of a test How to get better test scores through confidence tracking (interview with Justin Couchman) How to get to bed on time and stop losing sleep StayFocusd Anki StudyBlue Memrise Supermemo Spaced repetition Directed Attention Fatigue Inhibition Theory Koofers Cortex Strict Workflow Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hey what is up everybody and welcome to the college and
0:40.0	info geek podcast.
0:42.0	My name is Thomas Frank and I'm here with my friend Martin Bamy and on this episode we are going to tell you how to prepare for finals properly.
0:50.0	Though that's actually not really a full description of what this episode's going to be because we are going to kind of go through the whole process, right, dude?
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	So let's see, I think what I had in mind, what I wanted to do for this episode was basically do just like an info dump
1:07.5	Just sort of like an overview
1:10.1	Recap of a lot of the different videos I've done with some additional information and basically
1:16.0	what I had in my head was it's April it's almost May finals are soon
1:22.1	what do I do how do I? How do I get over test anxiety and
1:25.7	what do I do when I'm sitting in the testing room to make sure I score as high as
1:29.2	possible? So that's what we're going to try to do in this episode.
1:35.0	I was interested though.
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