What do I do if I have difficulties with the subject matter of a course?

Of course, everyone learns best in a different way. Nevertheless, there are a few tips that will hopefully help you:

Attend tutorials
If a tutorial is held for the relevant course, we recommend that you actively
actively participate in it. It is often easier in a tutorial,
get a clear answer to specific questions and to repeat concepts.
repeat concepts. It is also often very helpful to have a topic
explained again in different words.

Start learning early
It is always advisable not to start studying at the end of the semester. Whether learning for you now means doing assignments, writing a summary or reading through the slides (or something else entirely) is not important. something completely different) is not so important here. The important thing is to
to engage with the material in the long term.

Ask questions
Of course you can do this in the tutorial or in the lecture. But feel free to
approach other students too! Talking about the topics with others who are also
about the topics can be very helpful. In addition
there is always the opportunity to talk to students from higher semesters.
semesters. The pool (Where can I stay on campus?) as well as our online chat rooms are useful here. There is an extra “ICL learning support” room here. How to join the chat rooms is explained on the student council website.

Finding the right learning technique
As already mentioned, everyone learns best in a different way. So try out
different techniques to find out what works best for you.
works best for you. Among other things, there are also
University lectures, which you can find at heiSTART.

Summaries and old exams
When it really comes to preparing for the exam, you can use
summaries and old exams can be a great help. We collect these
as a student council in GitLab.