TIPS AND RESOURCE FOR PHYSICS ....

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Tips:​

1. Look through your lecture notes before going to lecture.This is so that you have a general idea of what your lecturers will be going through later.
2. Do not sleep in lectures/tutorials. I know this can be hard.(especially with those lecturers with monotonous voice) My suggestion is to bring some sweets to keep yourself awake.
3. Pay attention to the lecturer! Do not chat with your friends about the show last night! Stay focus on the lecture. It will save you many wasted hours later on when you are trying to understand what the lecturer had went through days ago.
4. Take notes if you think you cannot remember the important parts that your lecturer had went through.
5. Ask questions if you are unsure of something. You will be helping your fellow course mates too. If you are unwilling to speak up in a lecture room filled with people, write the question down. After the lecture, go straight to ask the lecturer while the question is still fresh in your head.
6. Read through the notes on the very same day after your lecturer had went through. This is so that you will retain the information and tips in your head longer.
7. Do not forget to convert the given units in a question to the units used in the equation! Example: km or cm into m, if the equation uses m.
8. Do not get distracted! Restrain yourself from going to watch television or play games when you are studying.
9. Teach others if you are able to. By teaching others, you will understand the topic better.
10. Keep practicing! Practice many different difficult questions to stretch your mind.
11. Make your own notes. If you feel that your lecture notes are overly cluttered with useless things, overly long explanation, make your own notes! It will help when you are studying for your examinations. Your own notes will be thinner and more concise than the bulky lecture notes.
12. Make "flash card" notes on the important equations and key concepts. These notes will be small and easy to carry around. You can bring them along and study them on the bus, train, everywhere! You will be surprise how effective they are.
13. Understand the key concepts! This is very important. If you do not understand, consult your teacher immediately!
14. Memorise the key equations of each topics! You WILL need them, even those "not so frequently used" equations.
15. Do not be careless! Do not throw that precious 2 marks away by forgetting a 0 or a decimal point. Stay focus.
16. Read the question carefully. If you missed a sentence or two, your idea of the question will be totally different!
17. Draw diagram if you are unable to visualise the question. It will help you in the process of answering the question.
18. Do not cram at the last minute! It is not effective and may do long term damage to your health.
19. Read more advanced text only if you are able to cope with it. If you are able to cope with it, the concepts will help you greatly. You will be able to understand the topics much better than your peers.
20. Be motivated. You will find things progress 10 times better when you are motivated. Keep a positive attitude and you'll be scoring well in no time!

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Tips on problem solving in examinations​

1) Try to​

identify the topic/concept​

that the question is testing. List down all quantities that are provided and think of a suitable equation from the topic you can apply.​

2) ​

Sketching a diagram​

is useful in helping you visualize the problem better.​

3) ​

Do not be confused with the symbols.​

For example, ​

p ​

may be taken to mean pressure, momentum and ​

n​

may be taken to mean number of moles, number density etc.​

You will face these problems if you do not revise the topic summary consistently and practice enough questions.​

4) ​

Pay attention to significant figures.​

Normally 2 or 3 sf is quite safe. Look at the raw data to decide. Use standard notation if necessary.​

5) For ​

MCQ, give yourself 1 minute per question.​

Go for qualitative questions first. For qualitative questions, do not linger on for too long for one question -- move on if you are not able to get the numerical answer for that MCQ.​

In the final 10 minutes, go through all the shading - all questions should be shaded in the optical marksheet -- leaving a question undone is foolish. Shading two options in a single question is foolish too -- no marks will be awarded.​

6) ​

For short-structured questions and long-structured questions:​

read through the entire question first. Highlight key info, data as you read through the question. Some questions require concepts from more than one topic. Eg. if a question seems impossible to solve using kinematics, maybe you can try conservation of energy. If a question seems difficult to solve using resolving of forces, maybe you can try using moments.​

7) ​

Solve those parts that you are confident first. ​

Circle the parts that you are skipping for the time being. Revisit these parts when you have the time.​

8) ​

Do not give up​

totally on an entire question. Even if you have no clue on how to solve the quantitative aspect, try to do the descriptive part (qualitative discussion).​

9) ​

Time management​

: Try to have a half-time checkpoint. You need to plan these time-check checkpoints yourself before the exam by looking at the exam timetable. Eg, if the paper starts at 8 am, have in mind that at 8.30 am, you should be at question ___ for section ___.​

Do not mull over one question for too long. Move on to the other questions if you are stuck. Remember, ​

it is better to have attempted various parts of all the questions than to complete only half the questions in the paper.​

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QUICK REVISION NOTES

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Measurement ​

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Thermal Physics ​

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Kinematics​

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Forces And Dynamics ​

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Work, Energy and Power​

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Circular Motion​

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Waves​

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Oscillations​

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Superposition​

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Gravitation​

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Electric Field ​

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Current of electricity ​

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DC Circuits​

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Electromagnetism​

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Electromagnetic Induction​

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Alternating Current​

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Semiconductors​

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Quantum Physics And Lasers ​

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Nuclear Physics​