Exam is an abbreviation for Examination, which is a formal
test involving answering written or oral questions with no or limited access to
test books or the like.
There must be an exam for you to go to the next level. For me I’ll simply say, Exam is a step you need to climb to
take you to the next level or next phase in life.
Many people see exams as a very scary that sometimes some
even take ill when they are about to write an exam… lol.
So here are some tips on how to prepare for an exam so it
turns out less complex to you:
1.
Prepare ahead of time; preparation is key. Don’t
wait for the dying moment before you start to read, except you have an extraordinary
IQ, (IQ abbreviation for intelligent
quotient, which is a number representing a person’s reasoning ability as
compared to the statistical norm for their age) if you fail to prepare in some
course… sorry to say this, you will fail woefully. And that leads us to (2)
2.
Do not cram it all, read to understand to some
level at least. It happened to me once, I waited to a night before a physics to
test to prepare, so I ended up cramming, when I got to the hall the test papers
where shared, I knew the answers to every question on the paper… cool right? I picked
my pen and started to write, I was writing till I stumbled on a line of what I was
writing and that was the end, I forgot it all, the more I tried to remember the
more I forgot, till I realized I was blank.
3.
So how do you go about the preparation? Create a
personal timetable for yourself for reading and also arrange all your schedules
in it so one doesn’t affect the order.
4.
Find out
what works out best for you; everyone isn’t the same, what will work for A
might or not work for B and C. if you need to read in a quiet environment, do
so, if you need music to read, do so, just don’t read the way your friend is
reading because you want to read with your friend, except it suits you. Just do
what you are comfortable with.
5.
Start to read from the beginning of a semester
or term. Take 3 to 4 hours a day to read. Before you know it you would have
covered the whole course work even before any pre exam test
6.
Prepare for tests as you would for exams they
add up to your exam scores.
7.
Never allow a person make you believe you would
fail a course. Prepare for every tough course as you would do for others, do
not give up. Just assign more time to the course.
8.
Don’t over stress your brain; after you have
read for a while drop your books do other things, you can meditate. Do not over
do things, because you might crash i.e end up falling sick during the exams and
you might not be able to write the exams you prepared day and night for and
that is a huge collateral damage.
9.
Lastly before going for an exam always try to
eat something, so you don’t feel hungry when you see a tough question, at that
point you should be thinking of ways to answer the question and writing on your
booklet rather than types of food.
And let me leave you with this quote;
“I learned this at least, by my experiment: that if one
advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to leave the
life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common
hours.” –Henry David Thoreau
Enjoy your exams and scale through life with success!
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