For six euros, a price that just trying to cover the cost of this publication, students have to face the physical examination tests for university entrance this year, will this year a guide to help them cope in the best way in the test and calibrate the topics that will delve deeper into this matter.
Editum, Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia, has just published "Guide to Physical Exam", a preparation guide for the tests to the University that, in the words of its author, professor of physics Antonio Guirao Piñera, try be "a tool for the student to access these tests knowing the format you will face in these tests."
"We want-Guirao-ensures that this work will serve the students to minimize the pressure and nerves that can generate a test face in a strange place than usual."
The work has been presented this morning at the Salon de Grados of the Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia for its author, who was accompanied by Francisco Guillermo Díaz Baños, Vice Chancellor of University Extension and Juan Martinez, Coordinator of Access tests to the University.
Guirao said the new work is not intended to supplant the notes taken during the course, "but clarifies ideas and easily see any gaps of knowledge in which the student must go deeper."
The work is both a guide and a handbook and a dictionary of resources.
The author has tried to ensure that the publication will serve both the teacher and the student, who tries to encourage to enter the world of physics.
"We tried," he said that the student receives a good education in physics can be very useful even in other studies. "
Issues and problems solved, basic concepts of matter or wording of questions on the theory are some of the issues that the student will find in this book that purports to be the best seeing-eye for those who wish to pass this test.
The book provides, at the same time, a detailed tour of the Physics syllabus for the entrance examinations to public universities in the Region of Murcia, and explains the main features of the examination they will face the student, offering advice and answering Frequently asked questions that were posed to students.
The work is complemented by a series of appendices on legislation of these tests, a tour of the natural resources on the web and a descriptive summary on this subject with the title What is Physics?
Second work
This is the second book of this nature published by the University of Murcia, with the emergence last year of the "Language Guide", the third edition will soon see the light.
"With these works," said Juan Martinez - University of Murcia intends to provide a service to high school students and all those who submit to testing for people over 25 and 45 years. "
The intention is that the University of Murcia releases in the coming years a book for each of the materials given in the admission tests, since, as reported by John Smith, "have shown a very useful tool for all those who submitted to these tests. "
For his part, Francisco Guillermo Díaz Baños, said "From the University of Murcia are convinced that college and high school teachers must work together to ensure that students have the best, the best preparation and achieve the greatest success possible and that initiatives like this are in this way. "
Source: Universidad de Murcia. Foto: Luis Urbina