"SPANISH TEST ON TUESDAY!" Is the only thing I have been thinking about all week/weekend!! Luckily in our CLS class we’ve been learning about EXAM PREP! Being in Spanish 101 after taking it for five years is easy, but sometimes I think I know more than I actually do! I have the most trouble with vocab, but thanks to the source/topic outlines and anticipating exam questions, I think I’m going to do really well!
First, let’s talk about the source/topic outline in terms of LAME! Outlines are like lists, and as you learned last week, I LOVE lists! I’m a visual learner, so I think this really helps keep the information of the test organized. My Spanish teacher emailed us everything that’s going to be on our test, so my first action was sorting by source. There were three sources: textbook, notes, and the quizzes we have twice a week (they’re SO helpful in understanding what we’re learning). Then I made note of the pages numbers and what was important on each source. After the source outline comes the topic outline. Remember: ALWAYS STUDY BY TOPIC, NEVER BY SOURCE!!!! The topics on our test are grammar, vocab, and panorama (cultures). I wrote down the specific information and page number for each topic. The materials were the actual outlines! Evaluation: because I’ve already taken Spanish, making this outline wasn’t as helpful as it would be for another class. This was the only test I had in the near future, but I will definitely use this to study for my next psych test! It did, however, make me think about what will be on the test. If we didn’t have two quizzes a week, I think this would be more helpful,.
Source Outline
1) textbook
- Grammar- pages 93-137
- Vocab- 114/150
- Panorama- 112; 148
2) Quizzes- #7 and #8
3) notes from class- weeks of 26th and 3rd
-conjugating verbs 9/28 and 10/5/11
Topic outline:
Grammar:
p 93: Possessive adjectives
p 96: Present Tense of regular -ER and -IR Verbs
p 100: Present Tense of TENER and VENIR
p 101: Expressions with TENER
p 126: Present Tense of IR
pp 129-133: Stem-changing Verbs
p 136: Verbs with Irregular YO Forms
p 137: The Verbs VER and OÍR
Quiz # 8
Vocab: 114: Family, Careers, Adjectives, Nationalities, Verbs
150: hobbies, sports, places, verbs
quiz # 7
Panorama:
pp 112-113 - ECUADOR
pp 148-149 - MÉXICO
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| The (anticipated) Test Questions!! |
Second, I anticipated ten exam questions! Although I’m a visual learner, I thought making test questions would reinforce the information in my brain. I looked through my source and topic outline and saw what was going to be on the test. I went through each topic and made a question or two for each (action). In total, I have ten questions (materials). I actually used questions we went through in class because what we do in class is exactly what is on the test. I also used questions from the textbook. Evaluation: Since I am in SPA 101, the questions are definitely more straight forward than a test on a philosophy or economics test. However, no matter what class you’re in, creating questions makes you think about how much information you actually know. By physically writing down the questions, it helps retain information.
I hope you use both the outlines and exam questions! They really helpful in not only organizing information, but they're great at finding out what you know vs. what you don't know!
See you next week,
Hannah :)
Hey girl,
ReplyDeleteI love how you used anticipated ten exam questions for your spanish class. In this case it does work. I love how you used lame in with how you study for your spanish test and how you broke it down. I never thought about doing it that way and when I have a test like this I will take what you said and use it. The topic outline makes you organized as well and it helps you study better. By using the topic outline you are pin pointing the main ideas and using it as you study. The use of different materials were good as well. Good job.
Wait, I am taking the same class, but I didn't use this strategy for it because I didn't know how to use it, but YOU just walked my step through step on how to do it. And vocab is what I struggle on the most, I understand conjugating fine, its just the vocab! But anticipating questions before can help us specify what vocab we really need and don't need to know. hmm, clever! I like! Thank you so much this is awesome! And your blog looks really good and organized too!
ReplyDeletenatalie :)