Study weekend 2010 & Exam commentaries

Greetings from a cold and windy London!

I hope that you are all well into your studies and are enjoying studying with the University of London. We are delighted that you are making good use of the materials we have provided and are using the VLE successfully. Please let us know what is useful and how we can improve what we are providing for you.

You can find information about this years Study Weekend and see photos from previous years on the Study Weekend website [external link], which is also the place where you can reserve your place online. You will not be asked to confirm and pay for your place until shortly after the booking deadline.

For those of you who haven’t been to a Study Weekend before you might also be interested in watching a short film about it, which was recorded at the 2008 event.

This year we have provided a timetable so that you can plan your weekend. We have tried to avoid any clashes but please do let us know if the subjects you wish to take are not available or they are being offered at the same time and we can attempt to accommodate your request.

Study weekends have been designed to help you but lecturers will not go over the whole syllabus. The study sessions are an opportunity for you to ask questions and to alleviate any doubts that you may have. We have found that the study skills sessions are particularly useful and so we would encourage you to sign up for these, and they are free!  

 As usual we will be having a party on Friday evening and this year we will be celebrating the successes of those students who have been given scholarships to study at the LSE and we will be inviting other graduates for you to meet.  We find that our alumni are a great source of support, information and guidance.  The party is a chance for you to relax and have fun so please come. On Saturday evening we will be having our open house as usual and we welcome any ideas that you may have for this session.

Any enquiries about the event should be emailed to externalstudy@lse.ac.uk

 

A number of examination commentaries are now available on the VLE and others will follow during the next four weeks. These are important for you as they provide the ‘voice’ of the examiner, they will indicate how the examination questions should have been answered and in some cases indicate what a really good answer should look like.   Please read them carefully. There is a warning on every commentary to alert you to the fact that examiners can examine any part of the syllabus and to warn students against question spotting. Remember that you are studying for a degree not just for the examination.

I am now off to Malaysia and Singapore to see students and teaching institutions!

Good Studying!

 

Rosie Gosling