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	<title>Comments on: Finals Diaries: Travis Prepares to Battle Calculus</title>
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		<title>By: Jeff</title>
		<link>http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/16/finals-diaries-travis-prepares-to-battle-calculus/#comment-13082</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t have time to create review sheets. My teacher gives me a beastly amount of calculus homework. It takes hours to complete the homework problems even with a solution manual.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t have time to create review sheets. My teacher gives me a beastly amount of calculus homework. It takes hours to complete the homework problems even with a solution manual.</p>
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		<title>By: Study Hacks</title>
		<link>http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/16/finals-diaries-travis-prepares-to-battle-calculus/#comment-8626</link>
		<dc:creator>Study Hacks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Would you be expected to put in time every day?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You would be expected to completed the items on the date/action list on the dates assigned. How many days this requires depends on the test, your actions, and how much preparation you inlined into the course as it proceeded.My general advice, however, is that for a given study plan you want to avoid placing more than one item on the same day, thus the observations that you rarely spend more than a couple hours on the same test on the same day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Would you be expected to put in time every day?</p></blockquote>
<p>You would be expected to completed the items on the date/action list on the dates assigned. How many days this requires depends on the test, your actions, and how much preparation you inlined into the course as it proceeded.My general advice, however, is that for a given study plan you want to avoid placing more than one item on the same day, thus the observations that you rarely spend more than a couple hours on the same test on the same day.</p>
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		<title>By: Nlelith</title>
		<link>http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/16/finals-diaries-travis-prepares-to-battle-calculus/#comment-8624</link>
		<dc:creator>Nlelith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;It’s also low stress, as it rarely requires more than a couple hours of work on any given day.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Would you be expected to put in time every day?  With potentially 3 other classes to do this for and the time you need to put in for classes and regular homework, you&#039;re looking at a pretty full day.  I&#039;m sure I&#039;m misinterpreting this somehow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It’s also low stress, as it rarely requires more than a couple hours of work on any given day.</p></blockquote>
<p>Would you be expected to put in time every day?  With potentially 3 other classes to do this for and the time you need to put in for classes and regular homework, you&#8217;re looking at a pretty full day.  I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m misinterpreting this somehow.</p>
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		<title>By: Andresito</title>
		<link>http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/16/finals-diaries-travis-prepares-to-battle-calculus/#comment-8600</link>
		<dc:creator>Andresito</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;the “plan”Travis sent me is not a plan. It’s a collection of vague behaviors.&quot;

This quote is gold, made my day ^-^</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;the “plan”Travis sent me is not a plan. It’s a collection of vague behaviors.&#8221;</p>
<p>This quote is gold, made my day ^-^</p>
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		<title>By: Frances</title>
		<link>http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/16/finals-diaries-travis-prepares-to-battle-calculus/#comment-8598</link>
		<dc:creator>Frances</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree:

I&#039;ve also personally found that statements like &quot;create review sheets&quot; were too vague to be helpful. &quot;Create summaries&quot; used to be a favorite of mine. I found that they hide the amount of work that is involved. Forcing me to estimate (guess - basically) how much time would be required to complete a task. 
Which turns out to be very stressful - time moves on, I hadn&#039;t adequately covered the material and exam deadlines don&#039;t move. Pesky things deadlines.

Good luck Travis!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree:</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also personally found that statements like &#8220;create review sheets&#8221; were too vague to be helpful. &#8220;Create summaries&#8221; used to be a favorite of mine. I found that they hide the amount of work that is involved. Forcing me to estimate (guess &#8211; basically) how much time would be required to complete a task.<br />
Which turns out to be very stressful &#8211; time moves on, I hadn&#8217;t adequately covered the material and exam deadlines don&#8217;t move. Pesky things deadlines.</p>
<p>Good luck Travis!</p>
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		<title>By: Julia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Julia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is great, Cal - I&#039;m currently a high school student in the throes of preparing for AP exams. Those are a little different from finals in that the material is pretty predictable and the grading is quite different, but they still are a pain - especially since most of my peers and I aren&#039;t used to having many hard exams in a short period of time. This&#039;ll definitely help cut down on the stress.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is great, Cal &#8211; I&#8217;m currently a high school student in the throes of preparing for AP exams. Those are a little different from finals in that the material is pretty predictable and the grading is quite different, but they still are a pain &#8211; especially since most of my peers and I aren&#8217;t used to having many hard exams in a short period of time. This&#8217;ll definitely help cut down on the stress.</p>
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		<title>By: Andresito</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andresito</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good luck Travis!

That calculus course is pretty much the core for electricity and magnetism. It can guarantee you peace afterwards.

I&#039;d like to suggest to work those mastered problems taking out the assumptions that may made the problems easier to solve... 
say what if... f(x) in this problem is actually a f(x,z) or a constant!
or if I can work the problem backwards..

Of course, leave that as your &quot;Academic Student Insurance&quot; as Cal calls it in the Red Book.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good luck Travis!</p>
<p>That calculus course is pretty much the core for electricity and magnetism. It can guarantee you peace afterwards.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to suggest to work those mastered problems taking out the assumptions that may made the problems easier to solve&#8230;<br />
say what if&#8230; f(x) in this problem is actually a f(x,z) or a constant!<br />
or if I can work the problem backwards..</p>
<p>Of course, leave that as your &#8220;Academic Student Insurance&#8221; as Cal calls it in the Red Book.</p>
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		<title>By: DutchSchoolKid</title>
		<link>http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/16/finals-diaries-travis-prepares-to-battle-calculus/#comment-8588</link>
		<dc:creator>DutchSchoolKid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The way Travis did it is the exact way how I am planning my finals this year. I&#039;m going to use those questions you asked to him, and make a better planner for those last weeks, thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The way Travis did it is the exact way how I am planning my finals this year. I&#8217;m going to use those questions you asked to him, and make a better planner for those last weeks, thanks!</p>
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