Vocabulary of studying 155

Studying

a study scheme [rancangan-sususan]
a planned timetable of what or how to learn or revise

....Helen and John devised a study scheme to help them revise for their economics test.

noun [C]
1- MAINLY UK an officially organized plan or system:

...a training/housing/play scheme
....a pension/savings scheme
...There's a new scheme in our town for recycling plastic bottles.
...Class sizes will increase under the new scheme.

2- a plan for obtaining an advantage for yourself, especially by deceiving others:

....He's got a hare-brained/crazy/daft scheme for getting rich before he's 20.


study under someone
be taught by someone [belajar dibawah bimbingan]

....Helen studies economics under Professor Lewis.
....As a young painter, he studied under Picasso.


revise (verb), revision (uncountable noun) -mengulangkaji
re-learn or memorise a subject before having a test on it

....Sorry I can't come to your party but I have to revise for my history exam this weekend.
....He hardly did any revision and still managed to do OK on the test. It's just not fair!

revise (STUDY) UK -verb [I or T] (US review)
to study again something you have already learned, in preparation for an exam:

...We're revising (algebra) for the test tomorrow.

revision - noun [U]

.....She did no revision, but she still got a very high mark.


cram [mengisi - mengasak otak dengan sesuatu]
try to learn a lot very quickly before an exam [pulun]

....I stayed up till 4 this morning, cramming for the exam but I don't think I can actually remember any of it now.
....She's cramming for her history exam.

crammer noun [C] UK OLD-FASHIONED INFORMAL
a school or a book which helps you to learn quickly


Exams

pass (verb), a pass (noun)
be successful in an exam

....Did you pass your driving test? [lulus]
....I just managed to scrape a pass. The exam was really difficult.
....Guess what? I've passed my driving test!
...The exam is so hard that only 5% of all applicants pass.
....Jonathon Hill achieved grade A passes at A-level.
.....Mary can speak passable Russian. [satisfactory but not excellent]
....She scraped into university on very low grades. [cukup2 melayakkan-nya]


fail
be unsuccessful in an exam

.....She failed her driving three times before she passed.
....I passed in history but failed in chemistry.
....A lot of people fail their driving test the first time.
....The examiners failed him because he hadn't answered enough questions.
...John got three passes and four fails in his exams. [noun-gagal]

a border line pass
a mark on a test that's only just above the pass mark

....The pass mark was 60% and I got a borderline pass of just 62%. But at least I passed.
....She was a borderline candidate. [borderline/adj/-pinggir-hampir2-sempada-batas]
....Only in borderline cases (= cases where students might succeed or fail) will pupils have an oral exam.

a clear pass [markah tinggi]
a mark on a test that's much higher than the pass mark

.....She got a clear pass on her chemistry exam and is sure to graduate at the top of her class.

re-sit
take an exam again because you didn't pass it the first time you sat it

...I failed geography and am going to re-sit it in September.
....If you fail these exams, you can resit them next year.
....She's got to do resits in French and German. [noun]

university or college


an undergraduate
someone who is studying for their first degree

...He's an undergraduate at Yale.


graduate (verb), a graduate (noun)
someone who has passed all their final exams at university and has been awarded a degree

...He graduated in 2003.
...She's an Edinburgh graduate.
....a Cambridge graduate
...Chris is a physics graduate.
....high-school graduates
....a graduate of Yale
....Lorna graduated from the University of London.
....Tom has just graduated with first-class honours in psychology.
...After he graduated high school, he joined the Army.

a postgraduate / a postgrad
someone who is studying for a second degree after getting a first one

....After graduating in Chemistry, he started his postgrad in Biochemical Engineering.
...postgraduate studies/research
....a postgraduate degree in microbiology

lecture (verb), a lecture (noun)
give a lesson on a specialist subject to a large group of students at university

.....She's been lecturing in Medicine for years.
.....We have our Business Administration lectures on Tuesday at 10 o'clock.
...We went to a lecture on Italian art.
.....Who's giving the lecture this afternoon?
.....My dad gave me a lecture on the evils of alcohol last night.
....For ten years she lectured in law.
....She travelled widely in North America, lecturing on women's rights.
....His parents used to lecture him on his table manners.[to talk angrily to someone in order to criticize their behaviour]

a tutorial
a lesson or period of study with a tutor involving one student or a small group of students

....His professor helped him planned his essay in his tutorial.

Vocabulary:


can't bear
[ tahan-menanggung-sanggup] - keep-
not wanting to do something because it will make you scared or uncomfortable [bore, borne or US ALSO born ]

...Thank you for your advice, I'll bear it in mind (= will remember and consider it. [simpan-ingat]
....I don't know if I can bear to look


dawdling
(informal) -berlengah2-bermalas2-membuang2 masa
doing something very slowly, taking more time than you need to
dawdle - verb [I] to do something or go somewhere very slowly, taking more time than is necessary:

....Stop dawdling! You'll be late for school!
....She told her daughter to quit dawdling and get dressed or she'd be late for school.

on the line -
dalam bahaya
at risk. You might get something, you might not

....I didn't know his job was on the line.
....Almost 3 000 jobs have been lost recently, and a further 3 000 are on the line.

lay/put sth on the line
[mempertaruhkan sesuatu]
...I feel pretty strongly about the matter, but I'm not going to lay my career on the line for it.
.....His job is on the line.
....Firefighters regularly put their lives on the line.

ecstatic
very happy and excited - amat-sungguh gembira-

....The new president was greeted by an ecstatic crowd.


ecstasy
(EMOTION) noun [C or U]a state of extreme happiness, especially when feeling pleasure:

....sexual ecstasy
...She threw her head back as if in ecstasy [dgn ghairah]


noticeboard (US bulletin board)
a board on a wall on which people can put notices, adverts etc.

....I've put the list of players up on the noticeboard.