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In case anyone needs it, here's the system I used to come top of my year when I did my philosophy degree! 1/6
Do the Week 1 reading in Freshers' week
Do the Week 2 reading in Week 1
Do the Week 3 reading in Week 2…
By doing this I basically got a week of extra time on every essay and arrived at every lecture already knowing what questions I needed to ask to understand the material. 2/6
Do the Week 2 reading in Week 1
Do the Week 3 reading in Week 2…
By doing this I basically got a week of extra time on every essay and arrived at every lecture already knowing what questions I needed to ask to understand the material. 2/6
When it comes to exams there’s only so many ways they can ask 'Compare and contrast these theories' or 'Can Philosopher X counter Objection Y?'
So I sat down and figured out every possible exam question. 3/6
So I sat down and figured out every possible exam question. 3/6
I created essay plans for all of them, memorised the plans, then practiced writing the essays against the clock. I hardly ever got an exam question I wasn't prepared for, and even when I did I could usually adapt a plan I already had. 4/6
There'd be maybe 50 plans per class, at most? A lot of them overlapped. So 150-200 to memorise and drill per semester, tops. It made exams so easy and low-stress cause I knew exactly how to revise and exactly when I was ready AND I already had a week of extra revision time. 5/6
It’s kindof the academic equivalent of counting cards or brute-force codebreaking: just being systematic to give yourself the advantage. But unlike counting cards they can't kick you out! 6/6
