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GET READY - EXAM PREPARATION
Strategic planning
Approach your revision in an organised, systematic way.You will cover more ground, and you will feel you are making progress.
You will feel more in control, especially if you are able to tick off topics that you have covered as you cover them. This in turn increases your confidence and encourages you to keep working, and so helps you to keep your motivation and effort high. Usethe system of rewards for revision topics covered to keep your enthusiasm high. Take care to check that thesyllabus or examination structure has not altered before you
launch off into revising certain areas and topics.
Past exam papers
Exam papers are excellent preparation because they give you a template (a working example) of what you can expect. Use them to see the kinds of questions that are likely to set,how to approach structuringyour answers, and how to time yourself when answering questions.
Course or topic summaries
Write out a summary for each course or topic. Keep it to A4 size if you can.This is time and effort very well spent, as it will show you the main areas you know, and more importantly, those you need to know, and which you need to work on.
Past notes
Use your past notes and summaries to go over main points. Skim texts, always looking to draw information out rather than stuff it into your brain. Examsare about retrieving information quickly and efficiently from your brain. Aim to train yourself to improve at this.
Outline answers
Prepare basic or"skeleton" answers. Usesummarising techniques here, and by condensing learning you will be able to access it more easily in a real
situation.Practise writing under exam type conditions, even if you only write out the outline of what you would cover.This will get you used to writing under pressure.
Practise the exam format
Make sure you know, and that you are comfortable with, the layout of the papers. Each subject will have different sections, choices of questions, compulsory questions, and questions that attract different marks.This information is provided at the beginning of the past exam papers/ books which you buy in the bookshop. Use these as a guide for the exam structure and outline: they're excellent.
Set up a revision timetable and stick to it!
Strategic planning
Approach your revision in an organised, systematic way.You will cover more ground, and you will feel you are making progress.
You will feel more in control, especially if you are able to tick off topics that you have covered as you cover them. This in turn increases your confidence and encourages you to keep working, and so helps you to keep your motivation and effort high. Usethe system of rewards for revision topics covered to keep your enthusiasm high. Take care to check that thesyllabus or examination structure has not altered before you
launch off into revising certain areas and topics.
Past exam papers
Exam papers are excellent preparation because they give you a template (a working example) of what you can expect. Use them to see the kinds of questions that are likely to set,how to approach structuringyour answers, and how to time yourself when answering questions.
Course or topic summaries
Write out a summary for each course or topic. Keep it to A4 size if you can.This is time and effort very well spent, as it will show you the main areas you know, and more importantly, those you need to know, and which you need to work on.
Past notes
Use your past notes and summaries to go over main points. Skim texts, always looking to draw information out rather than stuff it into your brain. Examsare about retrieving information quickly and efficiently from your brain. Aim to train yourself to improve at this.
Outline answers
Prepare basic or"skeleton" answers. Usesummarising techniques here, and by condensing learning you will be able to access it more easily in a real
situation.Practise writing under exam type conditions, even if you only write out the outline of what you would cover.This will get you used to writing under pressure.
Practise the exam format
Make sure you know, and that you are comfortable with, the layout of the papers. Each subject will have different sections, choices of questions, compulsory questions, and questions that attract different marks.This information is provided at the beginning of the past exam papers/ books which you buy in the bookshop. Use these as a guide for the exam structure and outline: they're excellent.
Set up a revision timetable and stick to it!