Pressures of tests and coursework

 Now, this is when things start to get tough. The weeks have seemed to be flying by and we have already gone through one term of university. All the assignments and tests have just been thrown at us at once we caused me great concern. University has shown to be a different ball game, because unlike college and secondary school, the teachers can give you one to one and physically help you do your work. However, in university everything is done independently which can be quite challenging. In my opinion I have never liked the way university work was set up, because they give out assignments 3 at a time and expect us to have enough time and knowledge about that specific subject to produce a high quality assignment on time. On the other hand, I have been coping quite well in this current time but the high rising amount of tests and assignments coming up is a little bit daunting, but I believe in my ability to perform at the highest standard possible.

   This week, we have our academic skills test which is going to be quite open, being that I have not studied an English based subject since year 11 so it will be quite interesting to see how I actually perform on that test. One way I use to reduce the work load of all my assignments is that I plan to do the assignment they give me either 2 or 3 days later, because when I do this it allows me to not only finish on time but to also have enough time to rest and finish up any other assignment I have to do.

   In my opinion, from all the modules that I am currently studying, I feel that Mathematics is probably one of the hardest subject. This may be because I only studied Mathematics when I was doing my GCSE's and even though I achieved a grade A, GCSE and A-level Mathematics is a big jump, so I think that in order for me to have a better understanding with Mathematics I should have studied A-Level Mathematics because this would have just given me an overall gist of how Mathematics in university would be like, so nothing would have been new to me.

   Overall, apart from assignments and work, I'm finding university life vibrant and I'm just trying to take each day at it comes in order to enjoy my life at university while it lasts.