Exam Preparation Tips – Student guid. Bring out the best in you………………………
For most of the student exams is the worst part of studying. You are stressed and if you have not been studying properly within the academic year then exam becomes big task. This is the matter bothering many people. Children are worried that they cannot keep in memory the lessons they studied. Now, don’t forget to read these guidelines!
We remember only 18% to 20% of what we have learnt initially, after 24 hours and we tend to forget rest. The human brain has 10,000 million nerve cells. Each single brain cell makes connection with 5000 to 10,000 other brain cells; the brain can be imagined to be a huge telephone network. When we learn something, new connections are created in the brain. Repetition strengthens that network.
Stop worrying that your memory power is weak- here are the tips to improve memory power:
- Get a strong impression by paying careful attention
- Repeating helps to remember better
- It is necessary to understand what we repeat for longer memory
- Study a little but often(Spaced learning)
- Systematic revision is extremely powerful scientific technique for transferring information from the short-term memory to long term memory.
- Instead of remembering a thing or an activity by name, visualize and picturise it in your mind
- Write down what ever you want to remember
- Take good food– more of fruits, pulses and vegetables because body needs glucose and oxygen.
- Do some physical excise, yoga – pranayama
- Play puzzles, riddles and mental games
- Rest and relaxation is also required
- Listen to music and watch nature
- Take practice tests at home, so that you can find out your strength and your weakness.
- Do not study more than half an hour continuously without any break( in the break you may get up and walk or you may close your eyes and relax)
SECRETS FOR GETTING MORE MARKS
Here you will learn some simple concepts and techniques that can help you maximize your marks in any exam.
- Make sure you will collect all lecture notes and related material at least 1 month before the exam.
- Refer previous years question papers. Answer all past exam papers and check your answers
- 15 days before the exam talk to your tutor about the kind of questions
- Carefully plan your time for exam preparation. You should give yourself at least 2 full days to prepare.
- Start preparation from an early morning. Switch off mobile phone, TV, don’t check your emails and avoid any other disturbances. Make sure you have enough high-calories food (like chocolate).
- Read all your lecture notes. If you don’t understand something – talk to your classmates, read books, search Internet. Make sure you understand everything.
- If you have a chance – talk to your senior who took exam. Quite often you can receive some valuable information.
- Make sure you get good sleep before the exam. Many students are much stressed and can’t sleep. Try to use your own tricks to avoid it, for example go to bed earlier, read something, don’t watch TV and etc.
- Wake up at least 2 hours before you need to leave the house. If you want – do some reading and reviewing, but not much. Eat well. Don’t forget to take all of your lecture notes, because you may wish to look at them to clarify something at the last minutes.
- Take your own stationary: several good pens, calculator and etc.
- Before entering the exam hall finish your restroom works.
- Enter the exam hall with confidence
Mental attitude
You should reach the exam hall ahead of time. In the exam hall, you will have about 5 to 10 minutes before your invigilator gives you the question paper and the answer book. Use this time to relax. Inhale and fill your lungs with air. If you do this, your brain will remain fresh. Have confidence in your ability to do your best You should reach the exam hall ahead of time.
- You should not have heavy breakfast or lunch before going to an exam. Because you may feel lazy or sleepy after eating food. This also means that your intelligence IQ or your brain power decreases for a few hours (2 or 3 hours) after you eat heavy food. If you feel hungry before your exam, you can eat fruits.
- You must sleep well during the exam days. Sleep is very important for you. It makes you fresh. It gives you energy.
Tips for writing an answer paper to get good marks
- Read the question paper carefully. Don’t lose marks by failing to observe the examiner’s instructions.
- Make a sensible choice of optional questions
- Do not use light colour ink. It looks light and not serious. It looks not worthy of high marks. Use dark ink
- When the exam has started – DON’T PANIC even if you seem not to know anything
- Relax and write everything you know.
- Keep pace with time, so that you have approximately equal amount of time for each questions.
- Answer the questions you feel easy and have the confidence that the answers are correct in the beginning itself. If the first few questions are correct, it puts the examiner in a positive frame of mind.
- Write neatly and legibly- Bullet the points. It is easy to read. Do not Scrabble the answer books.
- Have reasonable empty space in your answer paper. It relaxes the eyes and mind of the examiner.
- Underline the headings, sub-headings and important points. Do not underline all the points in the answer.
- Avoid spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, if time permits
- Write the exact Question Number and don’t split the answer.
- Try to attempt required number of question, if you don’t know the actual answer, write related answer. You may get some partial marks for the attempt. If you get stuck while answering, leave some space and move on to the next question.
- Revise your answers at the end quickly.
After handing over the paper, forget about the whole thing. Don’t repent or regret. You just can’t do anything now. Move ahead in your studies and life.
