How to Manage your Science and Technology Degree

How to Manage Your Science and Technology Degree is a ground-breaking book, offering a no-nonsense approach to all areas of undergraduate life, including maximizing learning opportunities, handling mathematics and coping with laboratory work. How to succeed in mastering time and finances is covered, as are examination techniques. It also discusses the wider aspects of university life and helps students to grasp each opportunity available to them. The book concludes with a chapter on how to break into your chosen career.

Accessible, practical advice including troubleshooting guides to help readers tackle new challenges
An innovative view of the successful management of a degree course and a positive approach to the opportunities available to undergraduates
Guidance on the nonacademic aspects of university life including advice on how to break into a career
Help with finances, time management, revision and examination technique

Autorentext
Lucinda Becker is Professor of Pedagogy in English Literature at The University of Reading, UK. DAVID PRICE is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Chartered Chemist and a Visiting Research Fellow at Reading University, UK.

Klappentext
How to Manage Your Science and Technology Degree is a ground-breaking book, offering a no-nonsense approach to all areas of undergraduate life, including maximizing learning opportunities, handling mathematics and coping with laboratory work. How to succeed in mastering time and finances is covered, as are examination techniques. It also discusses the wider aspects of university life and helps students to grasp each opportunity available to them. The book concludes with a chapter on how to break into your chosen career.

Zusammenfassung
How to Manage Your Science and Technology Degree is a ground-breaking book, offering a no-nonsense approach to all areas of undergraduate life, including maximizing learning opportunities, handling mathematics and coping with laboratory work. How to succeed in mastering time and finances is covered, as are examination techniques. It also discusses the wider aspects of university life and helps students to grasp each opportunity available to them. The book concludes with a chapter on how to break into your chosen career.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Getting Started.- Maximising Your Learning Opportunities.- Making the Most of Your Time.- Working Your Options.- Beyond the Studying.- What if Things Go Wrong?.- Examinations and Postgraduate Options.- Life After Your Degree.- Appendices.