Tuesday 5 March 2013

TOP EXAMANITION TIPS

For some of us exams are around the corner and the usual fretting that comes with it has started to show itself, well this can be avoided with adequate preparation and keeping in mind the following tips: 

1) Pens and Pencils 
Some exams require the use of PENS, while others have to be completed in PENCIL. Make sure you know what you should be using in every paper before you go in. 


2) Be informed :  Find out as much information as you can about the exam from the exam board or organisers.

 3) Take Spares  : Take spare pens and pencils just in case the one you are using stops working.

 4) On time not In time : Allow for problems, hold-ups and traffic jams on the way and make sure you arrive with time to spare so that you can go in calmy rather than in a frantic rush. 

5) It may sound stupid, but … Don’t forget to read the instructions and make sure you know what you are being asked to do. You should go into the exam well aware of what is expected of you, but you should always check. Don’t, however, waste a lot of time on this.

 6) Honesty,  a language exam is not a test of honesty and you will not be penalised if you tell the examiners that you are CANCER rather than SAGITTARIUS in a written question simply because you are sure of how to spell it. Language Tests are quite simply that; they are designed to test your language and not your honesty- don’t worry about lying or being economical with the truth in order to show off your accurate language use. 

7) Try to get a good night’s sleep the night before any exam. 

8) Hangovers : Try to avoid alcohol the night before an exam, especially in quantity, as a bad hangover is among the very worst things to be suffering from in an exam room.


9) Writing : Don’t get carried away and overload your writing with too many obvious connectives and contrastives; if every sentence has two or three such words or expressions, then the writing can seem strained and artificial. Remember- you can try too hard as well as not hard enough. 

10) Write on alternate lines (leaving every second line blank) so that you have space to make changes when checking through your work.

 11) Psychological Warfare : Examiners can choose the same letter successively for the correct answer. After three consecutive answers with the same letter, many students may well start to feel confused and worried. Eventually, many candidates will start changing their answers simple because they don’t believe that examiners would have half a dozen of more questions with the same letter one after the other. They can and sometimes do; this is a real test of your comprehension and reduces the possibility of scoring by guessing. 

12) Right word, wrong answer : With multiple choice comprehension questions based on a text, a simple trick is to take obvious and prominent words from the text and put them in an incorrect option. Seeing a word or phrase from the text is not enough; these questions are designed to test comprehension not recognition of a word from the passage.

With the above mentioned in mind you can be pretty sure of a very succesful exam!

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