Examination Techniques

"I Don't Know Where To Begin" Take Control. Make a list of all the things you have to do. Break your workload down into manageable chunks. Prioritize! Schedule your time realistically. Don't skip classes near an exam -- you may miss a review session. Use that hour in between classes to review notes. Interrupt study time with planned study breaks. Begin studying early, with an hour or two per day, and slowly build as the exam approaches. "I've Got So Much To Study . . . And So Little Time" Preview. Survey your syllabus, reading material, and notes. Identify the most important topics emphasized, and areas still not understood. Previewing saves time, especially with non-fiction reading, by helping you organize and focus in on the main topics. Adapt this method to your own style and study material, but remember, previewing is not an effective substitute for reading. 3. "This Stuff Is So Dry, I Can't Even Stay Awake Reading It" Attack! Get

What are the most common mistakes that English learners make? Which mistakes do most English learners need to correct, in order to learn English much faster? Here are the top 5 English Learning Mistakes: 1. Focusing On Grammar This is the biggest, most common, and worst mistake. Research shows that grammar study, in fact, actually hurts English speaking ability. Why? Because English grammar is simply too complex to memorize and use logically.... and real conversation is much too fast. You don't have enough time to think, remember hundreds or thousands of grammar rules, choose the correct one, then use it. Your logical left-brain cannot do it. You must learn grammar intuitively and unconsciously, like a child. You do this by hearing a lot of correct English grammar- and your brain gradually and automatically learns to use English grammar correctly. 2. Forcing Speech Both English students and teachers try to force speech before the learner is ready. The result is that most students s

An acrostic is an invented sentence or poem with a first letter cue:The first letter of each word is a cue to an idea you need to remember. Example 1 Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally Sequence in solving or evaluating math equations Parenthesis Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction Example 2 the planets in the order from the sun correspond to the first letter of each word in the sentence “ my very educated mother just sent us nine pizzas .” Below are several more examples. Example 3 Bones of the skull: Old People From Texas Eat Spiders Occipital, parietal, frontal, temporal, ethmoid, sphenoid Example 4 Continents: Eat An Aspirin After A Nighttime Snack (NOTE: The 2nd letter in the first three "A" words help to remember the "A" continents) Europe, Antarctica, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America Example 5 Oceans: I Am A Person Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific Example 6 Rainbow colors: Richard Of York Got Bugged In Venice Red, o

Teacher: Billy, name two pronouns. Billy: Who, me? Teacher: Very good!

Following are funny acronyms (these do not represent real meaning) FORD acronyms Fix Or Repair Daily Fails On Rainy Days Fails On Race Day Found On Roadside Dead Failure Of Research & Development Programming Languages acronyms BASIC: Boring And Shamelessly Idiotic Coders COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language C: Confusing Computer acronyms CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers Other BSNL: Bhai Sahab Nahi Lagta ( Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited )

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Forming an acronym is a good strategy to use to remember information in any order. An acronym is a word that is formed from the first letter of each fact to be remembered. It can be a real word or a nonsense word you are able to pronounce. Here is how to form an acronym. Write the facts you need to remember. Underline the first letter of each fact. If there is more than one word in a fact, underline the first letter of only the first word in the fact. Arrange the underlined letters to form an acronym that is a real word or a nonsense word you can pronounce. Examples: PEMDAS > sequence in solving or evaluating math equations Parenthesis Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction ROY G. BIV > the colors of the visible spectrumRed, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet IPMAT > the stages of cell divisionInterphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telephase

Mind Mapping is an important technique that improves the way you take notes, and supports and enhances your creative problem solving. By using Mind Maps, you can quickly identify and understand the structure of a subject and the way that pieces of information fit together, as well as recording the raw facts contained in normal notes. More than this, Mind Maps provide a structure which encourages creative problem solving, and they hold information in a format that your mind will find easy to remember and quick to review. Mind Maps are also useful for: Summarizing information; Consolidating information from different research sources; Thinking through complex problems; and Presenting information in a format that shows the overall structure of your subject . They are very quick to review as you can often refresh information in your mind just by glancing at one. And in the same way, they can be effective mnemonics : Remembering the shape and structure of a Mind Map can give you the cues

An economics professor at school had a strict policy that the hourly examinations were to be completed at the bell and anyone who kept writing on their exam after the bell would take a zero on the exam. Well, one guy kept writing on his exam for a while after the bell and then confidently strode up to turn it in. The professor looked at him and said, "Don't bother to hand that paper in... you get a zero for continuing after the bell." The guy looked at him and said, "Professor, do you know who I am!" The professor replied, "No, and I don't care if your dad is president of the United States...you get a zero on this exam" The guy, with a enraged look on his face, shouted, "You mean you have no idea who I am?" The professor responded, "No, I've no idea who you think you are." With that, the guy said "Good!" plunged his exam into the middle of the stack of other student's exams, and did a hasty retreat from the exa

Following are several tips to avoid cramming and start understanding the subject in an effective way: Summarise passages of text in your own words, it made you notice which bits you hadn’t really understood, identify which bits were really important and also meant you had a nice concise summary to go back to for last-minute revision. Use mind-maps all the time when you revising a subject to get all the different bits of it down on paper and see how they link up with each other, you can add key models and examples underneath each heading. Sometimes you have to draw a map a few times before you get it right, but each time you understand it a bit better. Whenever you have to remember something really dry, like a list, try to invent a really outrageous mental picture that includes all the elements. Or you may think up a rude acronym (funny shortcut) to remind you of the first letter of each bit. Try to study together with your friend and try to cover the same stuff at the same time,

Bhola applied for an engineering position at an MNC office in Bihar. Reddy from Chennai applied for the same job and both applicants having the same qualifications were asked to take a test by the Department manager.Upon completion of the test, the results showed that both men only missed one of the questions. The manager went to Bhola and said, "Thank you for your interest, but we've decided to give the job to Reddy."Bhola: "And why would you be doing that? We both got 9 questions correct. This being Bihar I should get the job!"Manager: "We have made our decision not on the correct answers, but on the one question that you got wrong."Bhola: "And just how would one incorrect answer be better than the other?"Manager: "Simple, for the question that both of you got wrong, Reddy put down 'I don't know' as the answer. And you wrote 'Neither do I'!"

To maintain regular schedule, place of study is of utmost importance. It should include the following: A door you can close complete privacy is necessary study in the same place every day if there is no room at home, use the local library or college library A desk or table Proper lighting > good lighting, preferably a front desk lamp or strong overhead light. Light should not be from behind. It will reflect your image on the book. A straight chair > you need both comfort and support. No bed !! No couch!! Proper tools > keep your desk fully equipped and ready for work text books/study material, notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, ruler, calculator . Don’t get up to look for things -it breaks concentration. Don’t give yourself excuses to leave your studies. Good reference books/notes > Always study from good books (may be costly)/study material etc. If new books are costly then you may purchase second hand books/study material. a clock to help you budget your time bookshelve

Most students cram for their next day exam especially if it is their final examinations. This is so natural as many of us tend only to study hard if the exam is already fast approaching. But we should understand - how we actually learn or remember the facts. We( atleast 80% of people) remember movies start to finish, as it has linkage(story line) and drama(attention factor). Same is true with studies. when we are learning to fillup the story line and with dramatic passion, learning gets easy. Now to get storyline of your subject you should listen the lecture in your class with utmost attention as you listen a good song. Now read lecture notes at the end of each day. Doing this technique is effective because it helps your brain to absorb the information one by one. This actually makes a mind map of what you read. To understand the subject effectively you must study in short stretches of time. Give short intervals of relaxation between stretches, as in movies. This way your mind wil

A schedule is a plan that you create for how you want to spend your time. A good schedule can help you do both what you must do and what you want to do. A scheduled activity is more likely to occur than an unscheduled one. Many students fail to develop a good study habit because of the very simple reason: they fail to stick to their schedule. The best way to combat those distractions is to be loyal to your schedule for that time. Refrain from creating excuses and you will see that you can manage your time better. Self-discipline is very important and the easiest way to impose a self-discipline is to stick on the task or activity that you are scheduled to do for a particular period of time. If you happen to have an unexpected activity, just try your best to finish your scheduled task ahead of time. Remember that if you are known to be a person who does things as scheduled; your peers or your colleagues will also respect your time. Now a million pound question is - how to impose self di