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When reading a textbook do you
1. Do all execises
2. Only odd exercises
3. No exercises
4. A capped number of exercises per section

>> No.10615332

>he doesn't watch YouTube videos on the topic two days before the exam

>> No.10615337

>>10615331

I dont read.

>> No.10615386

>>10615331
>5. do all exams exercise I can find in the internet
Lots of professors keep a sample exam and/or older exams in their personal page. Questions are way better than textbook ones, and usually harder too.

>> No.10615389

>try to do every single exercise that has an answer (usually the odd numbered ones)
>fail
it happens every time

>> No.10615449

>>10615386
This is the best way to do it for marks.
Honestly, I should have just gotten the previous year's exam papers and taken them to a private tutor to go over instead of going to class. I would have learned more.

>> No.10615463

I read the exercises and try to work out the solution in my mind without calculating every exact step.

As mentioned from others, i prefer using the exercises from my professor, because there i work with the level of difficulty and scope of work which i expect in the exam.

>> No.10616113

Dumb question but seriously, why do people only do odd questions? Like I've seen some solution manuals where they ONLY do odd questions, is there something special about it? What about the even ones?

>> No.10616125

>>10615331
If there are so many exercises that doing them all would be tedious and unnecessary then you have a shit textbook. In my elementary calculus and diffeq course I hardly did any exercises from my shitty textbooks

>> No.10616135

>>10615331
do all excercises and self test

>> No.10616275

>>10616113
typically odd answers are in the back of the book so students can check their work. Even answers are meant to be assigned as homework.

>> No.10616343

>>10615331
Enough until I know the material when being honest with myself

>> No.10616765

>>10615332
lol got me

>> No.10617743

Usually i read a chapter filling the gaps that the writer leaves (the proof is obvious bla bla) and then i do some random exercises and i check them with my fellow autist math bois

>> No.10617750

>>10615331
If I'm studying on my own, I have no reason not to do all the problems. If I'm just doing assigned homework problems, I just do what they tell me to do.

>> No.10618006

>>10615331
I only do the difficult last few problems and skip the brainlet shit in the beginning of the problem section. No need to waste time with those.