Examination Techniques

Students sometimes don’t feel like studying simply because they are not in mood to study. You may be upset because your girl friend did not fall in line or you just quarreled with your friend. You may be in a depressed mood because of so many assignments in your hand. This is a common problem among students because if they failed to review the course, they will probably obtain low grade in the exams. So it is important for students to know how to get in the mood to study. My personal and time-tested mood boosters are so easy and it never failed to lift my mood whenever I am sluggish and don’t feel good: (i) Listen music of your choice on a good music/mp3 player (Sony is best) - pop, rock, dance, soft, Bollywood, Hollywood etc. Generally fast music (with high bass/thump) lifts the mood successfully. (ii) Look for something green like trees, plants or even a nature inspired painting to lift your sluggishness. (iii) Take a short walk and enjoy nature, people, children, animals, other o

Past exam papers technique can really cut the time you need to review your notes and entire textbooks because what you have is the set of questions that will likely to be included in your upcoming exams. Moreover, past exam papers give a feel/trend of exams. If you are preparing for entrance exams like IIT, AEEE, IES, IAS, GATE, AMIE, MBA etc, then you can either purchase solved/unsolved papers from book shops or you can download these papers from websites of well known coaching institutes. However one thing you should keep in mind that generally there are errors in the solutions in solved papers, as most of these are published by petty publishers. Hence be careful regarding solutions of prblems. It would be safe to purchase unsolved paper rather than buying solved papers. You should try to get the solutions from good books or from internet. In this way your solution will not only be accurate but also be different from others. Finally, while using past exam papers - do not speculate.