{"id":2493,"date":"2016-09-21T15:33:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/09\/21\/efr-biedt-leden-gratis-samenvattingen-aan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:09","slug":"efr-biedt-leden-gratis-samenvattingen-aan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/09\/21\/efr-biedt-leden-gratis-samenvattingen-aan\/","title":{"rendered":"EFR offers members free summaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Van links naar rechts: Jasper Bal, Karl Naumann en Emma Clemens.<\/span><\/p>

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Starting this year, the Economics faculty society EFR will be offering its members free lecture summaries. The pilot project will start with the first block of the first-year Accounting course.<\/p>\n

You can find summaries for just about any lecture. If you can\u2019t source one from a senior-year student, you can always try online. But according to Emma Clemens (21), Vice President of the Economics faculty society EFR and student of Economics and Law, you can\u2019t always count on a quality product. \u201cI\u2019ve used summaries from a number of sources myself. They often contain quite a few errors, or you can see that the person taking notes doesn\u2019t really get it sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, students dole out a lot of money for these summaries. Clemens: \u201cYou pay around EUR 20 per block. When you consider that each year consists of eight blocks, this adds up to a sizeable amount.\u201d<\/p>\n

Summaries written by honours students<\/h3>

According to Clemens, the former board members of EFR came up with the idea of making their own summaries and sharing them with the members. \u201cAfter being appointed to the board, I could set to work on the idea straight away. I\u2019m a strong supporter of this initiative, so it wasn\u2019t difficult to get the ball rolling.\u201d She then started looking for students who were good at writing summaries \u2013 for a fee, of course. \u201cWe contacted the honours class to see if anyone was interested. We subsequently selected Karl and Jasper from the respondents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karl Naumann (19) writes the summaries, after which they\u2019re checked by Jasper Bal (19). Both students are in the second year of the Econometrics and Economics bachelor programme. The first round was checked by the Accounting programme group. The summaries only deal with the lectures \u2013 a conscious decision, according to Clemens. \u201cThe summaries aren\u2019t intended to replace the lectures, but rather complement them. Seminars are very important \u2013 precisely because they provide an opportunity to ask questions. Which is why we won\u2019t be making summaries for those.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pilot project<\/h3>

The summaries will be published on a weekly basis, and will total around 13 pages per week. Since this is still a pilot project, for the moment, EFR will only offer summaries for the first block of the first year. This will gradually be expanded to include other years and blocks. The summaries are offered free of charge to EFR\u2019s members and can be downloaded from the society\u2019s website<\/a>. EFR membership is free and open to every student.<\/p>\n\n\t

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