Uni advice coursework
We all know what they say first year doesn't count and at most uni's it really doesn't. I'm not going to lie to you and say that 1st year is really just a rest year for your brain after all the hard work you did for A levels or Btec and I also can't guarantee that there will be the massive jump that all your teachers warned you about.
From my experience it really depends on the course you do and what uni you go to so really you've just got to roll the dice and hope for the best. One crucial piece of advice I would listen to is that you should pattern your coursework and try to get the top grades in that. So even if you flop on your exams you have those grades to rely on.
The first piece of coursework at uni you submit will have you so confused because the writing style is completely different at uni but i assure you after a couple you should get an idea of what they are looking for and by the end of the year you'll be wondering why you spent so long on such an easy essay.
In an ideal world we'd all start planning our coursework as soon as we get it but we all know that's never going to happen, especially because the lecturers often give out coursework that is due in months time. However despite this what you don't want to do is start the coursework one or two days before. For me I always jotted down a few ideas in the lecture when they were discussing what we needed to do then i didn't look at it again until about 2-3 weeks before it was due. Then I just started collecting all of my references so i can easily slot it into my work once I start writing.
//TIP// always read the mark scheme and the guidelines very thorughly to make sure you are discussing what they want you to and not going off on a tangant, i know while writing some of my essays I realised mid-way through that I was writing about something slightly different and so had to go back and change this. Don't be me, read the mark scheme!
From my experience it really depends on the course you do and what uni you go to so really you've just got to roll the dice and hope for the best. One crucial piece of advice I would listen to is that you should pattern your coursework and try to get the top grades in that. So even if you flop on your exams you have those grades to rely on.
The first piece of coursework at uni you submit will have you so confused because the writing style is completely different at uni but i assure you after a couple you should get an idea of what they are looking for and by the end of the year you'll be wondering why you spent so long on such an easy essay.
In an ideal world we'd all start planning our coursework as soon as we get it but we all know that's never going to happen, especially because the lecturers often give out coursework that is due in months time. However despite this what you don't want to do is start the coursework one or two days before. For me I always jotted down a few ideas in the lecture when they were discussing what we needed to do then i didn't look at it again until about 2-3 weeks before it was due. Then I just started collecting all of my references so i can easily slot it into my work once I start writing.
//TIP// always read the mark scheme and the guidelines very thorughly to make sure you are discussing what they want you to and not going off on a tangant, i know while writing some of my essays I realised mid-way through that I was writing about something slightly different and so had to go back and change this. Don't be me, read the mark scheme!
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