A surprisingly high number of students lose marks through poor exam technique, rather than what they know. Do you think any of these suggestions might improve your performance?
• Don't get involved in negative talk outside the exam room. Talk positive with positive people. Stay away from people who will bring you down.
• Start off the exam by taking some time to settle down and look through the paper carefully.
• Start with the easiest question to settle you down, or get the hardest question out of the way first.
• Take care to read the questions right through.
• Be very careful to fully answer the question asked. While you may be able to tailor what you know to answer a given question, it’s important to resist the temptation to answer the question you hoped would be asked, or to write down everything you know that’s vaguely related to the question.
• Write a brief plan for longer answers, so that you stay on track.
• Underline key words in the questions.
• Share out your time effectively between questions, according to the number of marks they are worth. Remember that it’s almost always easier to get the first 50% of the marks for each question than to get the next 50%. This means it’s usually a bad idea to neglect one question in the hope that your marks on other questions will be so high that they pull your grade up.
• Leave some time at the end of the exam so that you can check your answers over. A little time spent checking can sometime save you quite a lot of marks.
GOOD LUCK!!
for a second i thought the article was going to be about how staying awake in class = good exam results! BAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteWell........ now that you say Da-Hee........ STAY AWAKE!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat first point is something that really helps, I get so terribly anxious and jittery when exams that 'count' swing around. My body pretty much decides that it no longer needs food or sleep for a week or so before an assessment block starts and all throughout. Well, when you have really bad issues with nerves, and you've scarcely eaten or slept for a few days, being around the highly competitive students in our cohort is the worst thing ever. O_O...>.<"
ReplyDeleteActually...whenever I sit an exam...I always feel like going to the bathroom ;_;
ReplyDeleteEven if I did already go before the exam D=
omg I have a fever!!! *dies*
ReplyDeleteAww! Take some anti-inflammatory analgesics like nurofen, a decent multivitamin and some vitamin c tablets, drink a LOT of water and try to sleep it off. Having the worst immune system of all time = learning how to get over being sick asap. Poor Amy! *hug* I hope you feel better soon. <3
ReplyDeleteOmg I HATE sitting with some crazy annoying person before an exam. Thats why I've learnt to isolate myself. Hahahaha. OMG AMY YES! Going to the toilet oh and my pen running out, which ALWAYS happens.
ReplyDeleteMy pen ran out jst as I finsihed my last sentence for English LOL
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