How to achieve good learning outcomes - 8. Deep and Surface Approaches to Learning

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I find that I have to do enough work on a topic so that I can form my own conclusions before I am satisfied.	My aim is to pass the course while doing as little work as possible.
I test myself on important topics until I understand them completely.	I learn something by rote, going over and over it until I know it by heart even if I do not understand it.
I find most new topics interesting and often spend extra time trying to obtain more information about them.	I see no point in learning material which is not likely to be asked in the examination.