Ebook: How to Win As a Final Year Student: Essays, Exams and Employment

Final year undergraduates face a particular set of challenges. What they do in their final year s critical to their futures. They must cope with revision for final exams as well as completing course-work and sometimes working on extended dissertations or projects. at the same time they need to be taking strategic decisions about their future careers. Many will be handling job applications and interviews. Others will be going though selection processes for entry into higher degrees. With greater number of students than ever before entering higher education, representing a broader cross-section of the population than ever before, the challenges of the final year cause most students some measure of stress, and prove unmanageable for a significant number of students. Because of large class sizes in most institutions, the amount of real help and support from academic staff to final year students is diminishing. This book deals with the specific challenges faced by final year students and it should be read at the beginning of their final year.