1) You need to really want it.
If you want to get a first class degree you have to be prepared to put in maximum effort.
The people who end up achieving are the people who have a passionate desire.
This means planning, organisation and not leaving your assignment until the day before, even if you “do work best under pressure”. The fact we all know that one’s not really working.
2) Chain research
You have to make an effort and you do that by digging out books, searching for journals and articles and searching the famed world wide web.
To get a first class degree you have to read around your topic (outside of the reading list) and interpret the ideas for yourself – always be critical as while your lecturer may not agree it shows you are driven by the subject.
The majority of students who achieve firsts will spend hours and hours researching and pooling together critical opinions with their own thoughts.
3) Make library as Best Friend
Use the library – and not just as a place to sit in despair the day before your assignment is in.
Once you’ve dragged all your books back to your dwelling place, read, read and re-read if you don’t understand something.
Don’t just rely on the internet as a source of all wisdom; the best students will use a range of different sources from ancient textbooks to online journals.
4) Harass your Lecturer
Arrange a meeting with your lecturer. If you have had results back from previous assignments marked by them, take them along and ask them to go through any improvements you can make to your writing or ideas.
Make sure you question them about any single query, no matter how trivial it may seem to you.
Now we don’t want you to literally badger your lecturer as it might get us into trouble but you should always ask questions and spend a lot of time with your lecturer during the whole semester.
5) Attend all your lectures
The slide and lectures from the lecturer, sometimes are the most powerful tools to student understand whole of the subject.
