'Tis the season... the exam season

It's the first day of exams! Here are some of the SLC's top tips for exam season.
It's the first day of exams! Here are some of the SLC's top tips for exam season.
Do you sometimes find yourself in ‘busy mode’ but not accomplishing much? Do you feel you could be more organized or productive? With the start of the fall semester, it's the perfect time to set some intentions about how you want to spend your time and get prepared!
Hooray! Exams are over and you have 2 weeks until fall term classes start! Time for travel, a staycation on Metro Vancouver’s many beaches, or just an opportunity to catch up on the other life things that you had to put aside during the exam period.
You are almost there! Here are some tips from your friends at the Student Learning Commons to help you make it through the end of this summer exam period.
When Ella Fitzgerald sings "summer time, and the living is easy", she clearly isn't singing about students who are preparing for summertime exams! But, with the summer exam period one week away, the SLC team is here to offer you some helpful tips and tricks. They may not make your exams feel easy, but hopefully they will make your whole exam experience a bit easier.
Welcome to second installment of our Grammar Camp series on the Parts of Speech.
If you didn't catch it or want to review, check out last week's post, which covered nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs.
This week's post covers adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
Thanks for Dr. Amanda Goldrick-Jones, SLC Writing Coordinator, for developing and sharing this content.
In this Grammar Camp post, Dr. Amanda Goldrick-Jones, SLC Writing Coordinator, provides an overview of 4 basic parts of speech. There are 8 basic parts of speech, so stay tuned for next week's post about the last 4, and for two self-test quizzes for you to test out your newly acquired grammar know-how!
You can also jump to Part 2.