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This section considers one student's preparation for examinations and his approach to writing essays in the actual exam.

Note that there are different approaches to preparing for and writing examinations. This section is designed simply to help you think about your own approach.

Step 1

As you watch these two video clips, check whether the statements 1-7 are true or false

Here is the video for statements 1-4

Here is the video for statements 3-7

True/False statements
True or False?	Statement
Statement 1 - T/F	Jamie started his revision at the beginning of the summer term
Statement 2 - T/F	Jamie planned his revision timetable
Statement 3 - T /F	Jamie tackled the topics he found most difficult first
Statement 4 - T/F	Jamie went to see his personal tutor but not the lecturer for the course
Statement 5 - T/F	You can find a database of sample past papers on the University website
Statement 6 - T/F	Jamie wrote out the answers to questions on the past papers he looked at
Statement 7 - T/F	Jamie thinks it is not worth going to revision lectures and seminars because you can do all your revision with friends

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Answers
Title	Text
Answers to Timed writing quiz 1	1 Not explicitly stated, but he started as soon as possible - T 2 - T 3 - T 4 - F 5 - T 6 - F

Moving on

Step 2