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How to Get a Good Degree
Making the most of your time at university Second Edition

Phil Race

How to get a Good Degree
Second Edition

How to get a Good Degree
Making the most of your time at University

Second Edition

Phil Race

Open University Press McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill House Shoppenhangers Road Maidenhead Berkshire England SL6 2QL email: enquiries@openup.co.uk world wide web: www.openup.co.uk and Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121-2289, USA First published 1999 This edition published 2007 Copyright © Phil Race 2007 All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd of Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London, EC1N 8TS. A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978 0 335 22265 0 (pb) 978 0 335 22266 7 (hb) ISBN-10: 0 335 22265 X (pb) 0 335 22266 8 (hb) Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data CIP data applied for Typeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Poland by OZ Graf S.A. www.polskabook.pl

I dedicate How to get a Good Degree to my son Angus – who did.

Contents
List of figures and tables Preface: background to this book Acknowledgements x xi xiii

Introduction
Knowing your enemies: a risk assessment exercise Tackling the enemies: don’t just work hard, work smart!

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Why aim for a good degree?
Why do you want a good degree? What is a good degree really a measure of? How should I go about working towards that good degree? Taking control of your learning What... [continues]

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