that's funny. me and a mate from my course were having a few beers after the exam yesterday and talking about how you can look nat notes that you wrote months ago whilst half asleep for the 1st time and information will start coming back to you that you never even realised went in.

example: in the tutorials and revision lecture for that class i sat there thinking, shit man i REALLY don't know any of this stuff, i've not been to most of the classes etc... but as soon as i'd come across a term or concept like valence issues i'd remember all sorts of information that i didn't even realise i'd taken in.

i think you take alot more in subconsciously than you can realise and it just takes a little work to get it out.

the biggest problem i have with exams is they're more a test of what you can remember for 2 hours than what you actually know. i can forget everything i picked up in that elections class or anything i remembered whilst studying y know...


on an other note. do any of you do this or is it just me? i like putting totally irrelevant stuff into exam answers that i can tie into the stuff you're answering and i've got into a competition with some mates about it.

i managed to spend two paragraphs talking about charlie being murdered in coronation street yesterday

apart from being silly and fun i think it serves two purposes:

1st it will draw the markers attention back in. if he's sitting on his 40th paper talking about party political broadcasts then someone starts going on about corrie it's going to perk up his interest a bit more an dmaybe even make put him in a better and lighter mood for marking.

secondly, if you're prepared to try it in a paper it usually means the exam's going pretty well if you can chance it and not be too worried if you drop marks for it.