Before an exam
1/ Only review the course summary
The day before an exam, you no longer have time to reread your entire course.
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2/ Eat healthily and go to bed early
The day before the exam, eat a good, healthy meal and go to bed early so you can survive an exam.
Avoid sweets, sodas, chips, and fatty foods, these foods have little or no nutritional value and will not help you think but will tend to keep you distracted. Distractions represent a considerable amount of time lost during a blockade , discover our article on how to improve your concentration in 1 exercise .
3/ Arrive for the exam in advance and isolate yourself from other students
Make sure you arrive on time and isolate yourself from others while remaining close to the exam room. Indeed, it is much more beneficial to mentally review the points of the course that you have mastered before taking the exam, rather than letting yourself be disturbed by your friends who will drown you in information and make you panic.
When you receive the exam sheet, listen carefully to the teacher’s recommendations then read all the questions before starting to write the answers. The teacher’s recommendations are often very useful in understanding how to answer the questions. Reading all the questions will allow you to assess the level of difficulty of the exam and will be an excellent indicator for managing your timing .
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5/ Assigns an answer timing to each question
Managing your timing during the exam is essential . Before you start answering, develop a strategy to score points. Analyze the weighting of each question, start with the questions where you feel comfortable, don’t spend half the exam on a question that is too difficult.
6/ Make the teacher’s task easier by ensuring the readability of your copy.
Nobody likes to correct illegible copy. This point is essential! Correcting 400 copies that look like hieroglyphics is inhumane work. If you hand in a dirty paper, the teacher will have a negative impression of your answers before even starting to read them.
So: clear writing , structured answers (introduction, body of the answer, conclusion), rich, precise and relevant vocabulary, correctly constructed sentences (preferably short), no grammatical or spelling errors. For math or science exams, circle your final answer clearly and avoid erasures.
This point is also essential. The mistake most students make is to respond impulsively to a question without first thinking about the structure they are going to give to the question. As a result, they realize too late that they have highlighted details instead of integrating the most important elements.
Mentally review all the contents of your table of contents and proceed by elimination to be sure that you are placing the question in the correct chapter of the course. When reading the exam question, ask yourself the following questions : What point(s) of the material is the professor referring to? Are there any sub-questions in this question? Given the weighting of the question, to what level of detail should I develop my answer? What elements must be included in my response? Should I illustrate the answer with an example, if so, which on
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