Revision Exercises in Geography [antikvár]

EDITOR'S PREFACE The examiners of most university boards, R.S.A., etc., whilst acknowledging that the work of many candidates is of a high standard, find that too many of the candidates entered are ill prepared. Although somé examiners maintain that lack of good teaching may contribute towards this, they alsó feel that candidates would benefit from instruction in the techniques of examination. This applies, not only in the case of external examinees .studying a subject at part-time evening, or day-release classes, but alsó to those full-time students who are perhaps faced with too many subjects and too little time in which to study them fully. Each of the books in this series contains instructions to candidates which must be read carefully, memorized, and acted upon in examinations. However, technique by itself will not pass examinations and the major purpose of this series is to test the basic knowledge of candidates by the use of various forms of exercise. Since many candidates fail to sustain an argument or to develop a point, the authors have provided selected answers as a guide, but only as a guide. Each of the books in the series follows a similar generál pattern of arrangement, but, inevitably, the wide differences in the requirements of the various subjects have necessita-ted in certain of these subjects somé deviation from this planned layout: questions requir-ing a one-word or sentence answer; questions demanding paragraph answers; questions needing a full O-level answer. Nevertheless, a student having used one book in the series would soon be familiar with any other. I hope the series will be of value to teachers and to pupils in full-time instruction, to those who teach and to those who learn in evening and day-release classes, and finally to those students who are unable to receive any formai instruction. E. N. Davies