Schools Do the teachers at 4 year colleges usually give study guides for exams?

[ideasrule]

ideasrule. you are of course correct that i am not a current student. however i am a successful former student. and also an unsuccessful former student. i.e. i have both failed and then later succeeded as a student. so i am pretty confident that i do know more than you about what study habits are fruitful, whether or not they are your preferred ones.

Even if you have a lot of experience in applying studying methods, that experience is specific to you. Every student is different, and what worked for you might not work for the vast majority of people. That's why seeking feedback from students and adjusting their teaching styles accordingly is a basic expectation I have from all professors.

basic rule: when you have nothing to offer and much to gain, do not be too insistent upon setting the rules of the game.

I'm not attending your university, and will probably never be in any of your classes. I'm responding to you so that you can get information on how students prefer to study, because you obviously have little respect for your own students.

 

[land_of_ice]

when i was a student, no one would dream of doing it, but 20 years later as a teacher, i gradually morphed into providing them. i.e. it is considered extreme hand holding but so many students today are so weak that it has become almost necessary.

Why are students less advanced nowadays?

 

[TylerH]

(For engineering / math classes) at some of the 4 year colleges, (in California or anywhere really,) what is the semester usually like as far as review days before tests, study guides for exams and tests, and quizzes?

Do the teachers provide any of the above? And also, do you usually have projects that are due?

My question to you: why would you want a study guide? I can't wait until the day I no longer have to redo the whole last x weeks before a test. (Assuming you mean required guides.)

My calculus professor gives practive exams online, but I don't think we've erver had study guides.

 

[TylerH]

you guys who do not think this is hand holding have apparently been coddled for so long you don't even know what it means to do your own work. some hopeless clown asked my freshman calc professor what was going to be on our exam, and the answer was "the content of the course!" the idea is that it is your job to review the material, outline it, and learn it. the more you do on your own the better you learn. get a clue. the sooner the better, for you.

Give a man a fish ...

 

[TylerH]

Why are students less advanced nowadays?

It's not that we're(as a dual enrollment high school student, I can say this) less advanced. It's the difference between high school and college. The high school classes are more geared towards the exams. They don't care if you learn it, the primary goal is for you to pass the EOC, AP test, etc. The whole class is focused on learning to take the test, which just happens to be related to the material. To the contrary, college classes, in my limited experience, expect you to learn, and have tests as a way to measure comprehension. Analogously, they teach the material, most of which just happens to be on the test.

 

[land_of_ice]

My question to you: why would you want a study guide? I can't wait until the day I no longer have to redo the whole last x weeks before a test. (Assuming you mean required guides.)

My calculus professor gives practice exams online, but I don't think we've ever had study guides.

Where does it say anyone wants a study guide? Do tell?
Study guides sometimes look nothing at all like the test and the study guide can really be unhelpful and time wasting. Study guides work though if the lecture looks nothing like the test and the teacher is trying to supplement lectures that are lacking.

Practice exams are different from study guides how?

 

[TylerH]

Where does it say anyone wants a study guide? Do tell?
Study guides sometimes look nothing at all like the test and the study guide can really be unhelpful and time wasting. Study guides work though if the lecture looks nothing like the test and the teacher is trying to supplement lectures that are lacking.

Practice exams are different from study guides how?

It doesn't, explicitly. But, given the choice of the word "provide," I'm assuming he wants it.

 

[land_of_ice]

It's not that we're(as a dual enrollment high school student, I can say this) less advanced. It's the difference between high school and college. The high school classes are more geared towards the exams. They don't care if you learn it, the primary goal is for you to pass the EOC, AP test, etc. The whole class is focused on learning to take the test, which just happens to be related to the material. To the contrary, college classes, in my limited experience, expect you to learn, and have tests as a way to measure comprehension. Analogously, they teach the material, most of which just happens to be on the test.

Can you believe that several centuries ago in history only poor people had to take exams, and rich students were exempt from exams altogether.
It says so in some book, it's a book called? What was it now, oh yeah its -
refer to the book 'Isaac Newton' by James Gleik , that's so weird how schools were back then.

 

[gb7nash]

As previous posters have said, every student learns differently. What may work for me, may not work for most people. There are many factors involved with how somebody learns material.