<p>agree with singh about taking less units. focus on the sciences, take some breadths for P/NP.</p>
<p>some tips:</p>
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<li><p>go to office hours frequently but only go after you’ve gone thru the stuff yourself and have questions (make a list of questions). you see a lot of ppl going to office hours without having reviewed material and expecting to get stuff explained to them for the first time, that doesn’t really help and wastes everybody’s time.</p></li>
<li><p>i think the way you should study is to focus on the big picture stuff first and then zoom in on the microscopic details. so the first time, scan the text or just listen to the lecture and just try to understand the general points without focusing too much on detail. then once you’ve understood the general points, do a deeper reading while working thru the material with a piece of paper (taking notes, annotating, etc). you may have to do this deeper reading a couple times to absorb everything. review your notes now several times. at this point you should have both a very good understanding and a very good recollection of everything. finally, as a test, explain it to yourself. if you can explain the material to yourself like a GSI or professor is explaining it to a student, you’re good to go and you’re going to get an A on the test. </p></li>
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<p>yes, the mechrocket method is a lot of work, but if you go thru those steps, not only will you do well on the test, you’ll have a really good understanding of what’s going on, which is important considering the upper divs build heavily on lower-div coursework.</p>