Joe Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 6 exams, 6 days, 3 hours each I took my first today. They totally suck. BIG TIME! Anyone have any special test taking tactics that they want to share. I know I just study my butt off and then just crash after the exam, sleep lots, and study again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Mints help you think and wear comfortable clothes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xepha Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 hum... study in advance... if you can. And also, I like to type my note to help me learning them... and I also ask myself questions like the exam questions and try to answer them until I know everything perfectly... Sometimes it could help to study with friends. Like you ask question to each other, like a quizz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 My exam tactic is, like, the worst model ever. Don't follow it. But I thought I'd best post it anyway. :) Have a big buildup to the first exam, studying loads in small chunks. Then, as that one finishes, cram amazingly hard (or not, in the majority of my cases. :P) for the next one. Then you can enjoy the majority of the study leave you get, while still learning stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torridity Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I usually try to eay a healthy meal and get a lot of sleep before the exam. Also, depending on what kind of learner you are (visual, auditory, kinetic, etc.) you could try and make up some sort of game where you reward yourself for the right answers. Studying + rewards = good. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie_Penguin Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I summarize each chapter and then write a song, record it and listen to it in advance until I learn them XD. It helps me A LOT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesome_Paul Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Your Lucky, try have 7 hours of exams in total (2 '3 hour' exams and 1 '1 hour' exam) in one day. thats tough. I wouldn't advise studying with friends always because you sometimes can get distracted, maybe once a week study with friends. But my advice, go to some place with no distractions, go to your garden/ or somewhere with just grass and no distractions. When your at home, there is always something to distract you, like food/tv/music etc. But go to a park (i went to a park (not really a park, when some fields with trees etc), take some books and water and revise for a few hours etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie_Penguin Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 A park might not really work. I don't know, every time I go to a park to study, something ALWAYS happens. Like some guy falls off his bike or a dog bites this person or a car crashes...too much action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awesome_Paul Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 nah not like a park, where theres are people walking dogs, but sometimes there are those parks with special gardens which you can't cycle, walk dogs on, just go someplace quiet outside. That way, your in the sun so you be happy, and no distractions. (except the ocassionally ones) but a car crash, you must live in a dangerous part, hardly no crashes here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie_Penguin Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 nah not like a park, where theres are people walking dogs, but sometimes there are those parks with special gardens which you can't cycle, walk dogs on, just go someplace quiet outside. That way, your in the sun so you be happy, and no distractions. (except the ocassionally ones) but a car crash, you must live in a dangerous part, hardly no crashes here. I actually live in the safest place in the country LOL. It's just everytime I go to a park or some place like that I'm like "Woah, what a beautiful day. I hope nothing happens". Then BAM, but it only happens when I want to do some work XD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xepha Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Studying outside wouldn't work for me... since Exams are in December and April, and we have cold winter... Also, don't listen to music, radio, tv while studying. Bad for concentration. Oh, and I had a teacher years ago that said it was helping to put your notes under your pillow while you sleep, lol. And I was always reading my notes before sleeping and putting them under my pillow for his class, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 How did your exams go today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Cheese Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 the most helpful thing in an exam is to do well in the rest of the year of classes so no matter how you do on the exam, youll pass the course. (Like here, course work is worth 70% of the final grade and the exam or culminating assignment is work 15-30%) This will relieve your stress a lot becuase you know you will pass and if worst comes to worst, youll at least get some answers correct and it wont look too too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted June 14, 2007 Author Share Posted June 14, 2007 this is actually my tactic *as a side note...i tried to quote someone...if it didn't work..ill try and fix this* i quoted matt, but i have no idea how to fix it, so yeah i cram....lots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Cheese Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 to quote someone you click on their litle quote box , make sure it turns red , then click on the add reply button , and finally type your message underneath the codey stuff thats already there :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 I pay close attention in class and study each topic after it's taught, so before the actual exams I barely study at all, except for covering sections that I'm rusty in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trudi Hanson Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Some people find studying hard. They become confused with what to study. What I would sujest is if there are any type of study sessions with your teachers go to then, they can help. if your school has samlearning (www.samlearning.com) that helps alony with BBC Bitesize. I'm on my GCSE's at the moment and these sites really help. Oh, an extra tip. Try and revise in small chunks, if you feel a headache comming on or you start to become stressed do something that helps to calm you down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauZai Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 listen and make note when the teacher is teaching. B4 exame read the note. As for history can remember the name of the peoples like remembering the name for a game character or make thing funny for it and that helps too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Luna Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 I once tried rapping Norman History to learn my facts for a test- "The battle was won in year 1066...." then I looked at the question and did the Paesants revolt instead. (I revised two for a multi-choice essay. Good Idea for me- I know very little about Motte and Bailey castles.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_yt Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 I usually don't start studying at the last minute. I listen to each lesson and ask if I don't know anything. I try to remember my notes by copying them again and again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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