Got to love eddy's posts
I've got COS371 on Tuesday as well, and this paper on Wed, and then COS372 on Thursday... So yeah, I think I'm feeling the stress a bit.
But I'm almost finished with the prep for this module, well as far as what I plan to go anyway, and I think I have the most of the basics covered. My attempt at getting all this in, was to divide and conquer, as mentioned previously. Basically, given the structure of the past papers, etc, the work to be studied appears to be from Chapter 4 onwards. First however, just read through Chapter 2. Don't worry to study it - judging by the past papers, the questions revolve around Chapters 4 - 8. By reading through Chapter2 though, you get that idea of what everything is about again.
Then, I broke Chapters 4 to 8 into mini sections. Such as Lighting, Shading, Texture Mapping, Hidden Surface Removal, Viewing and Projections, Clipping, and Anti-Aliasing.And then the Math related question from Chapter 4 (rotation, scaling, translation, normalisation, etc). Now technically, lighting and shading for example, overlap, but by dividing it into those categories I made it easier to get into my head, as well as focus on a particular topic instead of panicking that there's so much to get through. It was just a comfort thing. But it also had a further advantage in that when going through the past papers, it was easier to single out questions based on these categories.
Then on Tuesday evening, when the dust has settled from COS371, and I'm back from work, I'll do a quick revise and a quick read through the chapters again for potential small questions. Not that I'm worrying to much about those small questions - losing one or two marks for a "short" question doesn't worry me. As long as the big hitters are accounted for, I'll pass... Hopefully.