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Adapting to New Study Patterns
The third area of difficulty, the problems in adjusting to a new style of teaching and learning, is less likely to be discussed before your departure from your own country. You yourself may not expect any serious difficulties in this area. After all you have already proved, in the long years of your schooling, that you are an outstanding students. Otherwise you would not have qualified to study for a degree abroad. Probably you have always been successful in your studies, and you have developed a pattern of studying which has worked very well in the past.
Yet listen to these students describing their experience of studying abroad :
Problems that I am facing now are :
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Note taking in lectures. I find it hard to both listen, absorb and write the same time. Very often, I find I don't quite get what the lecturer is trying to convey at the instant he finishes his sentence and the next moment, he's going on to something else. I do feel sometimes more a recording machine (trying to write down most of the things lecturer said) than trying to get the essence of the lecture.
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Reading . I guess preparing lectures would help in understanding the lectures. however, to understand what the book is trying to say is also a problem. I have to spend a long time to read a page and sometimes I have to read it more than once to understand what the paragraphs mean.
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Laboratory work. I did not find it such a problem because it was I know at home. But it was hard sometimes to understand what is meant in the lab manuals. And the lab staff seem to speak too fast for me. They think I know more than I really do about where to find things and how to set things up.
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Writing essays. It is a new experience for me to look up relevant materials from the large variety of books in the library. I very often don't know where to start from. Research work is very time consum1 he understanding of the question/essay too is a bit of a problem. Luckily, this can be remedied by asking tutors concerned.
( Hong Kong undergraduate in Sciencel / Economics)
I had a serious problem in writing essays in social science. Since my BA was in English Literature, I was not trained to argue something in always been successful
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