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Approaches to Studying. The next part of this questionnaire asks you to indicate your relative agreement or disagreement with comments about studying again made by other students. Please work through the comments, giving your immediate response. In deciding your answers, think in terms of this particular lecture course.

1. I manage to find conditions for studying which allow me to get on with my work easily

2. When working on an assignment, I'm keeping in mind how best to impress the marker

3. Often I find myself wondering whether the work I am doing here is really worthwhile

4. I usually set out to understand for myself the meaning of what we have to learn

5. I organise my study time carefully to make the best use of it

6. I find I have to concentrate on just memorising a good deal of what I have to learn

7. I go over the work I've done carefully to check the reasoning and that it makes sense.

8. Often I feel I'm drowning in the sheer amount of material we're having to cope with

9. I look at the evidence carefully and try to reach my own conclusion about what I'm studying

10. It's important for me to feel that I'm doing as well as I really can on the courses here

11. I try to relate ideas I come across to those in other topics or other courses whenever possible

12. I tend to read very little beyond what is actually required to pass

13. Regularly I find myself thinking about ideas from lectures when I'm doing other things

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