My first exam

Today I had my first of three exams before summer. I was quite nervous and didn´t sleep more than 2 hours last night. The reason I was so nervous is that 'Research Skills in Psychology II' is the hardest module I´ve ever had, and everybody is on some level struggling with understanding how it all relates. To have complete understanding of and control over all the different designs used in psychology research, the similarities and the differences between them, and all the outputs in the data program SPSS is no 'piece of cake'! I eventually realised that this was not an exam I could revise for without making a map over the parametric tests I needed to know and their outputs, and this actually ended up being really helpful. An other reason for why I was so nervous was that I did the sample paper to test my knowledge, and it was surprisingly and suspiciously easy! This made me ask a lot of questions like: 'Do I know a lot, or is the sample paper just incredibly easy?' 'If it is easy, will the exam be harder or similar?' After talking to other people on my course, we concluded that the sample paper was in fact very easy. The exam was (honestly) a lot harder. In the beginning I got a bit anxious because it seemed quite difficult, but once I concentrated and read the questions properly, I actually knew a lot more than I thought at first. I am happy the first exam finally is over so that I can concentrate on the two exams I have next week that are a lot less ...well, less research skills.

My notebook where I´ve written all of my lecture notes.

A few of those many pages.

The poster/map I made for learning the parametric tests and their SPS outputs.
Not too complicated, but I couldn´t use any more time on this part of the revising.

Charlotte :)