Akhtar Ul Nisa
Enthusiasm, commitment to learning, time and perseverance are crucial to your success in any of the examination. Time and perseverance will provide the experience that will eventually help you achieve competency beyond your initial expectation. Do not expect your knowledge and skills to be perfect but strive to enhance them.
Familiarize with your exam structure, tentative date and syllabus. Collect your study material and organize them on a study table or space you have selected for study. How to pace yourself? Set up a study calendar that divides your syllabus into manageable parts. Select topics to be read and review on daily basis.to use this strategy follow these steps:
Schedule your Time: Making a proper time table is necessary in pre-exam and exam days. Students usually tend to give all of their attention to one particular subject which results in neglecting the rest. Some like to study during the day whereas others like to study through the night. Both of these can be okay provided you did not end up in wasting your time.
Be thorough with your syllabus: It is important to be sure about what you are going to be evaluated upon. Often, students do not have proper knowledge about their syllabus.
Preview: Before you begin to read preview your reading. Look at how long the chapters are. Make note of images and list. Think about how a section or text is organized.
Develop question: Ask yourself, “What are the key concepts and terms in this section? What do I already know about this topic? How do this section relate to previous section in the text or to the topics I already studied?”
Read: Always read the textbooks don’t rely on notes only. As you already read keep the question as you have generated in mind and think about your answers. When you have completed a section or chapter take out a piece of paper write down what you remember from what you have read. This activity require you to retrieve from your short term memory, which helps to move this information into long-term memory. Writing by hand, rather than typing on a computer also helps in long-term retention.
Review and write: once you have responded to your reading, review what have written and return to the text to see what details you have forgotten or misrepresented. Read those sections and try to write again.
Try to solve sample papers: previous years sample papers are available in the market and also available on the internet these days. The internet is an amazing informative tool, if you use it rightly. Solve sample papers as many as possible. This will give you an idea of the pattern of the Exam papers. While solving your sample papers or while revising always set a target time for completing a part and make sure you meet it. For best results finish your sample papers within 2 and half hours instead of the usual 3 hours.
When distracted by stresses, you are likely to put more things off and suffer from a procrastination accumulation effect. This is where you feel stressed, put things off and then feel stressed thinking about what you have left undone. As you do this you may leave more things undone and feel overwhelmed.
Strategy to address procrastination:
Set small attainable goals. Making progress toward these goals can help you build momentum.
Remind yourself of what you accomplished. You are gotten to the place where you are by delaying gratification and working hard for a future goal.
Do not seek perfection. Learning is a process, you cannot grasp all of the information first time. Be patient with yourself. It is only by actively retrieving the information multiple times that you form durable and easily retrievable memories.
Think about the exam in terms of days rather than months or year. If you tell yourself it is 365 days away rather than one year away.
Managing Anxiety
If you are feeling nervous or anxious about the exam, rest assured that you are not alone. While low level of stress is helpful for motivation and test performance, unchecked stress can interfere with attention and uptake of new information. Following tips will help you in managing your anxiety.
Be prepared: The less prepared you are to take an exam the more anxious you are likely to be on exam day. Begin study early.
Develop Solution-oriented behaviors: Focus on problem solving and getting things done, rather than attributing your lack of productivity to another person or thing. Example: “I don’t have enough time.” Simply figure out what you must do to get the necessary time, given that you have committed to the task.
Have a positive attitude and adequate rest: Remember that you are awesome with amazing and a grit bright future. Find some questions that you are very good at to build up your confidence and momentum. Getting enough night’s sleep (6-8) hours is likely to be more beneficial than rereading a text till dawn.
As you all know that knowledge empower you and nothing is more powerful than knowing yourself, your potentialities, your weakness and strength. You should also know what holds you back and what derives you forward. Ultimately it is you who can improve yourself or make yourself better. Achievement or success can be by independent will of a determined soul. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do you will never cease to grow”. This is the secret of success.
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