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Examination Preparation Collection

1. Lashley, Conrad, 12 steps to study success, Continuum International Publishing, 2003, LLB 370 LAS If you are studying at college or university, you will want to know how to use your time and effort to maximum effect. This book has the answers. It encourages you to establish your own natural learning style and develop simple tehniques for organising your study time, reading, taking notes, gathering information, working with numerical data, giving presentations, writing essays and reports, researching and writing your dissertation.

2. Van der Brink-Budgen, Roy, Critical thinking for students: Learn the skills of critical assessment and effective argument, Plymouth Distributors, 2000, LLB 158.024 VAN Critical thinking is a core skill needed to make all your studies more effective. This totally revised and updated book is a must if you want to find out how to develop your own arguments and evaluate other people's. 3. Evans, Mike, How to pass exams every time: Proven tehniques for any exam that will boost your confidence and guarantee success, Oxford: How To Books, 2004, LLB 370 EVA Reading this book really will make a huge difference to exam performance, whatever exams you're taking - professional or academic, Master's level or GCSE and A level, essay or multiple choice. It isn't just hard work or intelligence that gets you through. 4. Race, Phil, How to study: Practical tips for students, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2003, LLB 370 RAC How to study is the ideal companion for all students at college or university. It contains hundreds of practical tips, taking students from their first lectures through to their final exams and beyond. All the tips are written in a jargon free, friendly style and are illustrated with humorous cartoons.

5. Brewer, Kristine C., Managing stress, Hampshire: Gower Publishing Limited, 1997, LLB 156 BRE The stress we experience today is more intense and unrelenting than ever before. Although stress can be stimulating and motivating, if you can't control it the results can be deteriorating health, lack of productivity and depression. But understand how and why you react to stress and you will become its master.

6. Looker, Terry, Managing stress, London: Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 2003, LLB 156 LOO Managing stress is a step-by-step guide to dealing with stress, leading to a healthier, more relaxed and enjoyable way to life. The questionnaire to assess your stress levels will enable you to identify the signs, symptoms and sources of stress. You will understand what is happening to you mentally and physically and you will learn coping strategies to bring balance to your life.

7. Markham, Ursula, Managing stress: The stress survival guide for today, London: Vega, 2003, LLB 156 MAR Ursula Markham's positive and practical book will teach you how to control the stress in your life and gain self-confidence. Filled with usefull charts, exercises and examples, it will help you to recognize the symptoms of stress overload, assess your stress factor, relieve tension through lifestyle changes, diet and physical and mental relaxation tehniques and to utilize the positive power of stress. 8. Hamilton, Dawn, Passing exams: A guide for maximum success and minimum stress, Continuum International Publishing, 2003, LLB 370 HAM 'Passing exams' shows you how to make your examination time more interesting, less st ressful and gives you the chance to fulfil your potential in any exam situation. 9. Cottrell, Stella, Skills for success: The personal development planning handbook, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, LLB 370 COT Skills for Success will help you plan towards personal and academic career goals. If you already have clear aims, this book will help you plan constructively to achieve them. If you find it hard to think about the kind of future you want after university, use the book to simulate ideas and make the right choices towards a part that suits you.

10. Papworth, Michael, Stress busting, London: Continuum, 2003, LLB 156 PAP As teaching is such a demanding job you are probably stressed most of the time. But did you know that eighty per cent of the stress you feel is caused by only twenty per cent of the events around you? In this groundbreaking book, Michael Papworth describes a variety of innovative tehniques to illustrate how you can lead a more stress-free life. 11. Tracy, Eileen, The student's guide to exam success, Open University Press, 2002, LLB 370 TRA As well as offering practical information on the most effective study and exam tehniques (how to organise your revision, write powerful essays, speed-read, take effective notes, mindmap, use your memory and score points) it also does much more. Eileen Tracy explores the attitudes and emotional states that cause people to underperform, and shows you how to break free. She offers you a new and healthier way to succeed. 12. Lewis, Marilyn, Study skills for speakers of English as a second language, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, LLB 370 LEW Starting at any university is a huge step. If you speak English as a second language and are studying in a country new to you, then you are taking an even bigger step. This friendly, readable book will help you to make the most of your studies. 13. Brewer, Sarah, The ultimate stress buster: A seven-step plan for calm and relaxation, Vintage/Ebury (A division of Random House), 2003, LLB 156 BRE With the ultimate Stress Buster you can very quickly restore your inner calm and your outward enjoyment of life. Whether it is stress prevention or stress management you need, armed with the knowledge you'll gain from this book about your own personal relationship to stress, you can soon overcome the damaging effects of stress with just a few small changes in lifestyle and make it positive part of your life. 14. Creme, Phyllis, Writing at university: A guide for students, Open University Press, 2003, LLB 808 CRE Both traditional essays and other kinds of writing you need to do as part of your studies are covered. In all cases you are enabled to build on your existing abilities as a writer by applying what you learn in the practical tasks to your own work.