How to prepare for Examination
Preparation For Exam Guidelines
Planning and Time management.
A well-known saying is “if you fail to plan, you plan to
fail”. Planning and time management is a key to success. It helps you
to complete your course in time and save time for revision. If you
don’t plan and study haphazardly, there are more chances that you may
not be able to complete your course before exam.
How a student can plan properly? It is easy. First of all, see
that how many subjects are included in your course. How many chapters,
lessons and exercises are there in each subject? How much time is
available for completing your course? For instance, you are a student
of semester system, you have six months for preparation exam.
Make a
plan for your study, how to complete the entire course in the available
time. Divide the total time (months, days or hours) on the contents of
each subject. Do exclude a month (better the last month of session)
for final revision for exam. Write down this plan on a sheet. Such plan
is called schedule or syllabus. Make a time table having time for each
subject on daily basis. Paste your plan and time table on wall in front
of your study chair or study place. Start to follow it.
Frankly speaking, you can study a book having 15
chapters in a single week if you have the strong determination. I mean
to say, always be particular about your precious resource, the time,
and have strong determination, if you want to be a successful student.
Regular classes and studies – perseverance.
Regularity and perseverance are
basic elements of effective study and signs of successful student. Study
should always be kept maintained. Study for a day and giving up it for
some days and then starting again, is not a good way. You must study
regularly (without pauses of days) in order to succeed.
Regular study
helps you in two ways. First it relieves you from wastage of time and
second, the most important one, you have food for thought in your mind
from previous lesson or topic which helps you in learning the next
lesson or topic easily. All the lessons are inter-related. You should
study regularly so that you have your previous learning fresh in your
mind which helps in learning next lesson with perfection and in less
time comparatively.
Similar is the case of attending classes.
Making Good Notes.
Making useful and helpful notes is important part of your
preparation for Examination. It helps in fast learning and fast
revision. It saves your time when you read it in future. Notes can be
made from many sources but the main two sources are as follows,
• Teacher’s lecture
• Books and guides
• Books and guides
Be alert while sitting in classroom. Listen to the lecture with
full heed. Extract from the lecture, the important and helpful
information, and main ideas which teacher want to convey to you. Write
it down on a paper.
Similarly be focused on ideas of your lesson while you study.
Read each sentence with full heed and extract from them, the important
and helpful information, and main ideas. Write it on a paper. Finally
shape your notes in a good way so that it can be effectively used in
future for re-learning and revision.
Review - Revision.
Revision is an indispensable part of
preparation for exam. Revision helps learning to mature. You complete
your course and you learn well but it is not the end of it. You should
revise it again and again. It is a fact, if you study a chapter well
and don’t revise it, the learning you have in your mind from first
study will vanish with the passage of time. If you don’t revise for a
month, it is more likely you may forget it after a month or two. It
needs to revise it again and again for keeping it in mind for a long
time.
Revision does not take much time because you have already learnt it but you revise to refresh your learning.
Another advantage, each time you revise you learn more
and you get new ideas. You should have a month (usually last month) in
your schedule for final revision for exam, if you want to score
really. Final revision is very much important.
Study all – Avoid selective study.
Selective study is a risk-taking activity for a student.
Sometimes, student thinks that some topics are more important than the
others. He usually consider those questions important which were
frequently repeated in the previous exams. He prepares those topics
only which he thinks are important and skip the others. As a
consequence, he gets low grades in exam because he is also asked those
question which he skipped thinking them not important.
Remember, exam is given in entire course not in
selected areas of your course. Every lesson and every topic is equally
important. You should be fully prepared. It is the will of test-maker
that he can select any part of the course for giving question in exam.
Past paper – Specimen or sample papers.
Do study sample papers or past
papers. It gives you idea about the format of question paper. You come
to know which types of questions are given in paper, i.e. essay
questions, short questions or MCQs. It is very important you know the
format of paper because it rectifies the direction of your study for
exam.
Take Some Pre-tests.
Pre-tests are these tests which are
taken before the main exam on monthly basis or weekly basis. Pre-tests
play vital role in your step by step preparation for exam. It tells you
how much are you prepared for main exam. It shows which areas in book
need more study.
You come to know about your weaknesses . You learn how
to attempt question in paper. How to answer in a good way to get high
marks. It also eliminates your stress for your main exams because you
get acquainted with solving question papers.
If your institution gives you monthly or
weekly tests, it is good, if not, then you have to manage it on your
own. Make tests for yourself or tell someone to make tests for you. You
can also get past-papers (previous papers) for this purpose. Solve
them and mark them properly and see how much distance have you covered
on the road of preparation for Exam.
Question-wise Preparation.
A question paper comprises of different type of questions
to test your knowledge. There are mainly three types of questions
- Essay Questions (Long descriptive answer with full explanation – more marks)
- Short Questions (3 to 5 line answer – less marks)
- Multiple Choice Questions, MCQs (Answer one from the given choices)
Study or learning method is the same but preparation method varies for each type.
Preparation for essay question includes learning a
topic, extracting its summary and learning how to represent it in good
way in paragraphs or with headings.
Preparation for MCQs includes learning a topic and
extracting the hidden information in each sentence which can be asked
as MCQs.
For short question you should consider definitions,
jargons, scientific terms, particular name of types of something, names
of phases involved in a process etc. These are the areas which test
maker touch for short questions but it does not necessarily mean that
you skip rest of your course.
Always be in state of examination in normal days.
The days of examination are wonderful. We have gap of one
or two days for each paper during exam. We revise and prepare the whole
subject in only one or two days for coming paper. Normally it seems
very difficult. It is very easy because in exam we are in a state of
worry that we may get less marks in the paper and that’s why we study
more in little time. Frankly speaking, that study is very productive as
well.
Own this state of exam in normal days if you want to
enhance your study outcome in little time. Study as you have to take
test in it tomorrow. Try to do more in little time. Try to speed up
your study.
Preparation in days of examination.
The session for preparation ends.
Finally, the days approach, for which you started preparation from the
day one of session, “the days of exam”. It is natural student gets a
little bit tensed in the days of examination though he is fully
prepared. A little bit stress is good because it plays positive role.
But never let your stress overcome you which makes hindrance in your
preparation either. Have confidence in yourself and revise your subject
for coming paper. By now, you have learnt a lot, you have full command
on all subjects because you have undergone step by step preparation for
exam throughout the whole session.
Arrange all the allowed things you need in paper i.e.
clip board, pen, ink calculator (if allowed in some papers), rough work
sheet (if allowed).
When you have paper tomorrow never remain vigilant the
whole night. Have proper sleep (at least 4 hours). You need fresh mind
to attempt your paper.
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