AUdIoCoUrSeS
Joined: 31 Oct 2002
Posts: 2014
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This week we are offering something a little different, no questions!
Your task this week is to create a personal profile of how you intend to revise your work ready for both your mock exams and real exams.
We are interested to see some interaction here so I want to see you questioning each other, you may start this task off by asking each other questions, "where did you find information on..." etc.. and then also ask each other when you find your best study time is, morning? evening?
Include a great deal of reflection "I found week 7 really difficult as I was off work"... or "I found the practical to be more exciting but know I must catch up on some theory for week ... "
You get the idea.
This form of self reflection is very important for us to be able to summarize where we all currently are in the lead up to the exams.
I'll check each day for your responses.
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Mon May 16, 2005 6:12 am |
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JohnA
Joined: 20 Jan 2005
Posts: 28
Location: Mid Glamorgan, UK |
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OK guys, guess I’ll kick off here.
Gathering your information ready for exams. This is a practical suggestion that I use to stop frustration when looking for a specific piece of information on a subject. Many of you will already know this but may not be using it.
This may be of help to those who are going to study in front of the computer screen. What I have done is gathered all the questions and answers to RT together and pasted each week into a single document called, you guessed it, “AUDIO COURSES RT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS”. When I open this document up, all the questions and answers are there. The beauty of this is, if you need to look up something, for example, SMPTE, you can use the “find” function on your keyboard to go straight there. So, for the above, I just press “Ctrl f”, up comes the find screen, type in “SMPTE” then press “return” or “enter”. The computer goes to the first SMPTE section in the document and highlights it. Press either “Return” or “Enter” again and it goes to the next SMPTE section. You can skip through hundreds of pages in a matter of seconds with this function. Much overlooked this. Obviously, this works with any text so, full questions etc. Saves you scrolling all the time to find certain questions and answers.
Hope this helps.
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Mon May 16, 2005 7:28 am |
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chemira
Joined: 03 Jan 2005
Posts: 50
Location: Nova Scotia Canada Eh! |
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Great Idea John, I may do the same or similar.
I think I might create a group say Synchronization make a sub-heading say SMPTE and jot down or drag and drop all of the points that relate to SMPTE. This way all of the firm structured information will be there under the heading for me to create a flowery answer from. Just the facts kind of way.
The worst weeks for me were the last few weeks, to the point where I could not complete homework to the best of my potential. I had a severe conflict of Interest/time that had to overlap at the highest workload. No way to plan for it just do it.
I will say that the practical exercises were great to get a hands on approach, challenging for some and fun for others. It is a benchmark to see if you can improve on something that overall has poor quality yet great potential.
I think that overall my poorest factor for research was the primary use of the internet. Without a book with index I needed to phrase things. I highly recommend test in the physical kind. The recommended books obviously I should have bought. But….
Cheers
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Mon May 16, 2005 9:18 am |
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hoaxwagon
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 27
Location: Boulder Creek, CA USA |
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wow, this has been a hard 11 weeks. I was originally working on a pentim ll ,windows 98SE, with a K6 chip and it crashed good. I got a new, faster computer around week 5 with windows XP. The Cubase I have only works with 98SE so I loaded Cubasis on the new computer and hunted down a driver so that my multi-channel soundcard would work with Windows XP. Throw in a week long vacation and you got the makings for quite a semester. I found that when I was going to be away from a computer it helped me to print out a bunch of relevent information from web searches that I organized with the questions. Then used the trusty high-lighter marker pen to zero in on the answer. This technique worked on the long air plane flights and during the down times between stage acts at the music festival I attended, week 8. I hear what your are saying Chemira, I was at a crossroads with no sleep and my brain was being overloaded, still is. "No time for the pub man, gotta study" was what my friends have heard lately.
The best time for me to study is in the morning. The evening is not as productive for me because the days length has succeeded in wareing me thin. I am sure not going to be the only one with bags under the eyes while taking the C&G exams. Some of the questions I did not answer because I ran out of time although since have found time to address the bulk of them. The practicals are another story. The nuetron sounds will be tackled this week if I can figure out a way for Cubasis to recognise the nuetron dll file that I dropped into it's vst plugins folder. I was able to throw some other effects into the vst folder that were recognised but not the nuetron. When I was working with Cubase on Windows 98 the nuetron came right up on the screen only to lock up. That was the end of that. If anyone had this problem and has solved it? OK enough rambling, Peace Darrell |
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Mon May 16, 2005 3:35 pm |
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rachelh
Joined: 16 Jan 2005
Posts: 35
Location: Trinidad WI |
Hey all!
Well I am not a study by the computer girl, I prefer to have everything printed out in front of me… that’s just what I did. My plans for studying are to go through the syllabus and revise all the topics, some of the RT and MT topics are linked so u can basically study things in a group for example, MIDI can be grouped with Synchronisation [they kinda flow into each other]. Then I think the most important thing to do is to quiz yourself on what u have learnt especially going over all the questions that we did in the forums after the topic is revised … to make things stick. My technique for doing all of this is utilising lots and lots of coffee…  …. and do some practice tests… forgot about that, I printed out all the practice tests in the Index, so I’m gona start on those soon… u could never do too many practice tests, even if it’s the same ones over and over again…
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Mon May 16, 2005 7:02 pm |
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AUdIoCoUrSeS
Joined: 31 Oct 2002
Posts: 2014
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Hi all, some fantastic stuff here so far and please do keep it coming.
Regarding:
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I highly recommend test in the physical kind. The recommended books obviously I should have bought. But….
Yes I highly recommend those text books, might be late now for the exams, BUT they are great books for the rest of your learning life.
Taking the syllabus
click here
and the headings contained within,
IS
the way forward for revision, you must ensure you track down through each of the topic headings and their sub-headings and ask yourself
honestly
if you have approached the subject.
If you find areas you are having difficulty with, we will start a forum thread for it.
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It's all in the ears. - Learn the concepts not the software.
Audio Courses is a way into the music business for you
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