Sunday Feb 28 2010
Prof David Albrecht has some ideas on how to succeed in an accounting class.
His ideas are pretty much spot on but I would add this as an overall thought.
Start early in any class. This past week it was evident that students had not begun reading a book for a book report.
Start early, the book report was assigned the first week of class. Reading ten pages a day would easily have consumed a three hundred pager in a month.
And, I would disagree with the study hard and long for the exam suggestion. The better idea is to study every day. Too many students believe they can cram for an exam that requires analytic solutions, this is not the case. These are learned slowly and by repetition. One can memorize say the Maslow heirarchy the night before the exam but not the soution to an eps problem.
McGraw Hill will be ramping up their online product with Connect. In the meantime I am going to start posting much more frequent requirements in terms of answering questions and staying focused on the subject. This is not something that can be put off until Sunday night every week.
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