Do you guys share your exam prep/notes with your classmates?

[2THDDS]

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For classes that you put a lot of work into and make review summaries and practice exams, do you tend to share them with your classmates or do you hoard them for yourself?

I mean, you put a lot of work into it, so they are really helpful tool so you feel like helping folks out by sharing, but on the other hand, they didn't work as hard as you did to make the worksheet so perfect, so do they really deserve to see it..??

How do you guys feel?

 

[Daneosaurus]

I help everyone I can.

 

[irishmom]

I have always shared what ever I have. I am not in competition with any one but myself.....

 

[SableFire]

I openly offer my study materials up to others I love making them and I love being able to help others by letting them photocopy them! Why put in all that hard work when only you can enjoy it!?!

 

[BrazilianRider]

If I'm making study guides, etc. for myself, why wouldn't I share them? Not only do I feel good about not being an dingus (lol, as*hole autocorrects to "dingus"), but if you're a gunner you can also bank on them coming through for you when you have an off day/week/period.

 

[Weakfart]

I am really passionate about the academic community and in order for it to grow, I need to share what I can to my peers, especially if they're not getting a concept. If the response to that is "well what if they do better than you?", well good then I better step up my game but in the end it's not a competition and we all want to do the best we can for the academic community and our future patients.

 

[Greyangel6]

I guess I should start collecting lunch money for all the notes I've shared... lol jk... but seriously, that could help pay off some of that debt XD

 

[DentalFox]

I'll pretty much share my notes with anyone as long as I have shaken their hand before. However, the "good stuff" gets shared only to my study group.

 

[y3nd0]

Wow, I'm surprised no one else has picked the other answer.

I don't share my notes with anyone not because I am "hoarding" them or am a gunner, but it's because I tailor my notes to myself. Haven't you ever borrowed notes from a classmate when you miss class and wonder what the heck they were writing? You know your own notes best, not others. In school, I have already seen others' notes and it's just not my style, and I definitely don't take away too much from them.

If someone were to ask me for my notes, I wouldn't hesitate to give it to them, as long as I say, "Sorry if you don't understand everything."
I do, however, share resources if I find them, and am willing to help explain things to others if they need help (if I am confident in the material).

 

[DentalFox]

Wow, I'm surprised no one else has picked the other answer.

I don't share my notes with anyone not because I am "hoarding" them or am a gunner, but it's because I tailor my notes to myself. Haven't you ever borrowed notes from a classmate when you miss class and wonder what the heck they were writing? You know your own notes best, not others. In school, I have already seen others' notes and it's just not my style, and I definitely don't take away too much from them.

If someone were to ask me for my notes, I wouldn't hesitate to give it to them, as long as I say, "Sorry if you don't understand everything."
I do, however, share resources if I find them, and am willing to help explain things to others if they need help (if I am confident in the material).

I draw on my notes so it's very tailored to myself, but people just like the different perspective. You need to find others such as yourself who have a similar style of notes. I ask only a few friends for their notes. One of them rewrites everything the professor says word for word. The other just writes the main points. From there, I combine the notes and add any missing information to mine and share my notes again for completion sake.

 

[y3nd0]

I draw on my notes so it's very tailored to myself, but people just like the different perspective. You need to find others such as yourself who have a similar style of notes. I ask only a few friends for their notes. One of them rewrites everything the professor says word for word. The other just writes the main points. From there, I combine the notes and add any missing information to mine and share my notes again for completion sake.

Not that I was trying hard, but I don't really go around asking others for their notes. No one really offers either. Only a few people have offered to share their notes by posting it through our class website, but I found no major use of them. I think finding someone with similar note taking styles, and compiling notes from them into one takes more work than just compiling and studying from my own notes.

I suppose style of notes comes with styles of studying. Prior to starting dental school, a D2 said to our class that "studying alone is not going to work. You'll start depending on each other in study groups." During my entire undergrad, I have only studied with others on rare occasions. Studying alone was more effective for me.
Although it has only been 1.5 quarters, I've been doing fine alone, and I prefer it that way. Maybe that's why I don't do too well if I try studying from others' notes.

 

[Digitalangel]

Not that I was trying hard, but I don't really go around asking others for their notes. No one really offers either. Only a few people have offered to share their notes by posting it through our class website, but I found no major use of them. I think finding someone with similar note taking styles, and compiling notes from them into one takes more work than just compiling and studying from my own notes.

I suppose style of notes comes with styles of studying. Prior to starting dental school, a D2 said to our class that "studying alone is not going to work. You'll start depending on each other in study groups." During my entire undergrad, I have only studied with others on rare occasions. Studying alone was more effective for me.
Although it has only been 1.5 quarters, I've been doing fine alone, and I prefer it that way. Maybe that's why I don't do too well if I try studying from others' notes.

im the same way. i need to study and process the information alone. i like doing doing group activities with others like in labs where we all apply the information together, but when it comes to initially learning it i need to do it alone.

 

[mimachu]

I shared notes with students that I was close to in my class during hygiene school. Then, people who I was not close to started coming up to me and asked why I wasn't sharing notes with them and that I was being selfish. So it kind of backfired. This is why, I think when I start dental school, I will just keep them to myself and save myself from the petty drama people like to create.

 

[gatsby121]

For classes that you put a lot of work into and make review summaries and practice exams, do you tend to share them with your classmates or do you hoard them for yourself?

I mean, you put a lot of work into it, so they are really helpful tool so you feel like helping folks out by sharing, but on the other hand, they didn't work as hard as you did to make the worksheet so perfect, so do they really deserve to see it..??

How do you guys feel?

The hard work you put in to perfecting a worksheet/study guide serves you better than it will anyone else. I share my notes freely and even tutor classmates whenever possible because helping others is awesome but it also reinforces concepts for yourself like no other. I hear at Nova this is common practice which is awesome!

 

[Jerm174]

I don't have any problems with sharing my work but I do usually recommend making your own notes that focus on what you need covered most. I also think making the notes is just as important as studying from them.
I once made the mistake of studying from notes compiled by a complete stranger in my class and didn't get as good of a mark that i could have if I had studied at my own level.

 

[TourdeTeeth]

I really enjoy making study guides/note pages. I generally share them with my good friends and close classmates. But last semester I had a class where my study guides were so in-depth that I emailed a study guide to a friend, they emailed it to another friend, and by the time of the final everyone was studying using my study guide. After the final everyone came up to me and thanked me. It really irritated me cause I didn't like everyone in my class and they were just being super lazy.

 

[irishmom]

I shared notes with students that I was close to in my class during hygiene school.

In hygiene school I was also the one to make notes/notecards...everyone loved them and wanted to be in my study group. I shared what I could, but my group was set at about 6 people...more than that and I feel it is hard to study. However there was one girl in my group that didn't share anything...really pissed me off.

 

[2THDDS]

I shared notes with students that I was close to in my class during hygiene school. Then, people who I was not close to started coming up to me and asked why I wasn't sharing notes with them and that I was being selfish. So it kind of backfired. This is why, I think when I start dental school, I will just keep them to myself and save myself from the petty drama people like to create.

for them to say that you are selfish for not sharing was just out of line.
it's your note and whom you share it with is your choice..

shame on them.

 

[2THDDS]

I really enjoy making study guides/note pages. I generally share them with my good friends and close classmates. But last semester I had a class where my study guides were so in-depth that I emailed a study guide to a friend, they emailed it to another friend, and by the time of the final everyone was studying using my study guide. After the final everyone came up to me and thanked me. It really irritated me cause I didn't like everyone in my class and they were just being super lazy.

so much for trying to keep it within a circle of close friends. lol

 

[Macabalony]

I went to a small university so the upper division classes had 10 people. For better of for worst, the notes would get shared.