When my recitation teacher for CRS 183 announced a quiz for Friday, March 4th, my brain already started to get jumbled. We had read so much ancient text and taken so many notes, I didn't know where to begin! However, this was no surprised to me. This was pretty much how every single test or quiz woul

d go for me. I would hear about the exam, think about how much material I had to study, and barely give it my best shot because it just wasn't worth it, or didn't seem like I was able to put all the information into my head. This time, I decided to take this exam head on, and do my best to tackle the information. First, I approached my teacher afterone of the lectures. I confirmed the date and materials needed for the exam. Although I already knew this from the faculty interview project, I also made sure the format of the exam was still essay questions. Now that I was completely sure of what to expect on the exam, I prepared a source outline. This is something I would never have expected to do, however I found it extremely helpful. I looked through the syllabus and wrote down every article or reading from the packet we needed to do for the class. I color-coded it in rainbow sharpies, because I know that I remember cert

ain information better when I see it in color, rather than just on a page with blacktext.

Next, I filled in which notes from lectu

re fit with which article. This way it would be easy for me to match the information I got from my teacher to what we needed to read outside of class. It also clumped information together, s

o it seemed less overwhelming. Next, I made a topic outline. This is a sort of condensed version of the s

ource outline. I put the different readings into topics and ordered those topics from bulkiest to lightest in the amount of stress we put on that subject in class. This helped me prioritize the information and made it clear what I needed to spend the

most time on, or spent time on first. Now that I've finished my source and topic outlines, I feel way more prepared to study for this quiz. I know that I have all the information I need to study,

and have shown myself that it is not an overwhelming amount. I haven't taken the quiz yet, but I have a great feeling about it.