(Ep.13) KNOW YOUR LECTURER

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In being able to pass your exams and tests, reading is very important. However, it is also important to know the lecturer who will set the questions and also mark your scripts.


What does your lecturer want

What does your lecturer want in answering the questions? Some lecturers want you to tell them exactly what they said in class. They do not want you to put it in the way you understand. If there are 20 correct definitions for a topic, they want you to write in your exams, the exact definition they give you. 

Some lecturers want you to write in your own words. They want to know if you understand the subject. Some want you to, at least attempt all questions, even if there wasn't enough time to finish up.

Some others want you to attach diagrams to every question. Some want you to show the full workings in a calculative course. Some want simple straight to the point answers and not stories. Others want creative stories around the answer. Some want you to quote authors and theories, etc.


Give them the answers they want

Whatever your lecturer wants in the examination answers, please give it them. 

Find out what they want. This you can do by listening to them in class. They will always give clues of what they want in you answer sheets. You may even ask them directly. Also, ask senior colleagues or your classmates.

You will do better in many of your tests and exams if you read and if you know what the lecturer wants you to write in the exams.

Let me also state here that this doesn't suggest that you give in to their negative demands just to pass your test. God will help you.

"But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD."; Jeremiah  9:24


Now that you are a student, know your lecturer


✌️ 💕 


Dr Tochukwu Onu, PT

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