Week 4 of Fraser's Comprehensive Course

This is their last week of bridging courses, overall workload was a bit less than the last couple of weeks.

The pre-class work for section 2 included a quiz where you rank the effectiveness of an argument. The pre-class for biology had a video on statistical inference. 

During the section 1 webinar we covered exam traps that we may come across, the process to tackle them and an overall technique to approach all S1 questions. The section 2 webinar was a workshop, similar to the last one, I didn't particularity find this useful but there were a few takeaways that I've listed below. In biology we covered the theory behind graphs, tables and plots, and how to read them. In chemistry we covered some more redox, lipids, isomerism and chirality before going into 2 techniques to approach chemistry stems. In physics we covered equation analysis, ratio, logs and estimation strategies. 

Post class for section 1 included videos on common mistakes, test dynamics, emotions, evaluation, pacing and reading, followed by a quiz. Section 2 contained another one of those quizzes we did pre-class and in section 3 we had a quiz for each faculty, no videos this week.

My takeaways from week 4:

Section 1

• The process of identifying the trap/weakness, find the right strategy to attack this weakness then apply
• Approach each question by identifying the text type, question type, the exam trap, annotate and count for time

Section 2

• A good argument has to acknowledge and contextualize the theme and consider it through the relevant framework. 
• Give logical points about the theme given the insight from the framework
• Give logical evidence to the points 
• must be both appropriate and effective
• And conclude the processes above

Section 3

• Biology
• No traps process to approach tables and graphs
• Numbers - units and scales
• Orientation - legend
• Titles
• Reference point
• Axes
• Purpose
• Significance/Trend
• Sift process for tables
• Significance
• Inference
• Filter
• Target question
• Chemistry
• Beam - this is more of a mentality to approach questions
• Breathe 
• each question is new so forget about how you did in the last one and move on, don't hold on to any baggage
• Enjoy the easy questions
• Appreciate what is arduous
• don't let hard questions get to your head
• Middle
• Check your mentality in the middle of the question, after you've read the stem before the questions
• Mist
• Meaningless
• whether you've seen this question before is meaningless - remove baggage
• Invest
• invest time into cracking the question, accuracy first
• Simple - keep it simple and systematic
• Trial and error
• the mnemonic kinda falls apart here but look for patterns, give it 30sec then retry
• Physics
• Have a structured approach
• What do I have?
• What do I need?
• What can I do?
• What can I do with what I have?
• How to find what I need?