Study Skills

First Semester Advice

Nobody tells you the rules, and the rules are where the marks are.

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First-year students lose marks to conventions nobody stated aloud: that the rubric outranks the reading list, that office hours are one-to-one teaching almost nobody claims, and that a referencing habit built now stops costing you marks for the rest of the degree. None of it is difficult once someone says it.

What you get

  • The rubric matters more than the reading list
  • Office hours are free supervision nobody uses
  • Referencing habits set now save you two years
  • A 2:1 is built in week two, not week twelve
  • Asking for help early is not a confession
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