One of my friends from university was the master of seeing things for what they are. It’s mostly sport. In our first year, I quickly learnt from him the power of past papers and practice examples. Getting something right once isn’t the point. Letting it soak in till you know it, rather than just recognise it is. Treating the process of tests and exams like athletics, where you are embodying the skills and reducing the performance times. The second trick he exemplified was answering in the way the markers are looking for. We did a couple of projects together, and getting the Marking Schedule from students from the year ahead was the starting point. This is like looking at job advertisements, studying your mentors’ career paths, and speaking to recruiters before choosing what to study. On very few occasions are people genuinely pushing the boundaries of human thought. The answers are normally there for those who look. Who is doing what you want to do? Were they where you are? Is there a path?
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