Send Clowns,
I would recommend most people have at least a week's gap between a brush-up course and exams
It's not often I disagree with you... but on this point, I do.
I can only speak from my experiences of Module 1 at Bristol (although soon I'll be able to add Module 2 to those experiences). Over the 2-week brush-up period for Module 1, I (along with all the other students) left school at 5pm every day, went back to where I was staying, and worked until 11pm, with a short break for dinner. It was essential to do the work there and then, so that any questions could be raised the next day in class. As the days went by, I also built up a collection of feedback questions which we didn't go through in class, and those questions I didn't look at until after the course.
Starting the following Sunday, I spent each evening doing the feedback questions for the exams I had the following day. All the work I'd done over the last two weeks was fresh in my mind, and I was able to answer most of the feedback questions without any problems. The model answers were there for the few questions I got stuck on.
By the time I got to the exam hall, I felt totally prepared. I'd spent the previous night looking over feedback questions, and was feeling confident because I'd been able to answer most of them.
I doubt that it would be possible to spend an extra week doing feedback between the brush-up and the exam. Even if you were to take that extra week, you couldn't maintain the constant 9am-11pm schedule which going to classes forces upon you, and the material would not be so fresh by the time you sit down in that exam hall.
Just my thoughts, of course... others may not agree.
FFF
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