This document provides tips for exam preparation and writing answer papers. It recommends conditioning camps to adapt to exam conditions and maintain physical and mental readiness. Proper sleep, exercise and time management are emphasized. Mental preparation includes avoiding confusion and maintaining focus. Mock exams should be taken under exam conditions. Revision techniques include visualization, use of cards, explaining concepts to others, charts and micro notes. It also gives advice for the exam day and writing answer papers, such as reading questions carefully and leaving space between answers. Answer papers should be checked for completeness before finishing.

1. JNANA PRABODHINI 1
PREPARING FOR
EXAMINATION
VIVEK PONKSHE

2. JNANA PRABODHINI 2
PLANNING IN THE LAST PHASE
 Conditioning Camp
 Physical Preparation
 Mental Preparation
 Time Planning
 Mock Examination

3. JNANA PRABODHINI 3
CONDITIONING CAMP
Adaptation to examination atmosphere
Proper physical and mental condition to
create competitive spirit
Motivation to win

4. JNANA PRABODHINI 4
Physical Preparation
 Avoid unnecessary physical strain
 Minimum seven hours sleep is must
 No sleep in afternoon
 Light exercise in morning and evening
 Adjust your body clock to
examination timings

5. JNANA PRABODHINI 5
MENTAL PREPARATION
 Avoid confusion
 Be on rising curve of preparation
 Alert body and mind
Killer Instinct

6. JNANA PRABODHINI 6
TIME PLANNING
 Ten to twelve hours a day
study
 Analyze solved answer papers
Compare your scores with your
objective
Re-plan your weightage of study time
for each subject

7. JNANA PRABODHINI 7
MOCK EXAMINATION
 Under examination conditions
 During the same timing
Get your answer books checked

8. JNANA PRABODHINI 8
REVISION IN LAST PHASE
• Visualization
• Use of Cards
• Explaining others
• Use of Charts
• Micro Notes

9. JNANA PRABODHINI 9
VISUALIZATION
1. Recall important points
2. Comprehensive thinking
3. Putting all points in logical order
4. Create a memory chain
5. Visualize all pictorial information
6. Think of various questions which can be
asked around that point
7. Make rough sketch of what you are recalling

10. JNANA PRABODHINI 10
USE OF CARDS
1. Use for long answer questions
2. Important points on one side of the
card
3. Minor points, details, diagrams on
other side
4. Key word cards
5. Cards of laws, rules, formulae

11. JNANA PRABODHINI 11
EXPLAINING TO OTHERS
1. Paired task
2. Choose difficult topics
3. Explain in your own language
4. Draw figures, diagrams if necessary
5. Invite questions
6. Sum up together

12. JNANA PRABODHINI 12
USE OF CHARTS
1. Advertising techniques
2. Stick charts on commonly
seen walls
3. Incidental study

13. JNANA PRABODHINI 13
MICRO NOTES
1. Revision at one sight
2. Select only difficult and lengthy topics
3. Write key words and links between
them
4. Use block diagrams

14. JNANA PRABODHINI 14
DURING EXAMINATION DAYS
1. Go to sleep early
2. Get up early
3. Avoid distracters such as story books, films, T V
serials, Internet
4. Take just enough food before starting for
examination
5. Individual study is the best strategy
6. Use relaxation technique under stress condition
7. No discussion half an hour before examination
8. No discussion after coming out of examination hall

15. JNANA PRABODHINI 15
REMEMBER WHILE WRITING
ANSWER PAPERS
• Write all necessary personal information
• Draw margins if necessary
• Read question paper carefully
• Select questions and their order of writing
• Write important formulae, keywords by
pencil on back page of answer book
• Write question numbers carefully
• Don’t spend more time on single question

16. JNANA PRABODHINI 16
REMEMBER WHILE WRITING
ANSWER PAPERS (contd)
• If you remember some important pt of
answer of other question then write down
somewhere
• Mark the question after answering
• Leave some gap after each answer
• Long answers may be started on new page
• Under line important pts to draw attention of
examiner
• Make paragraphs in long answers
• Number pts in your answers

17. JNANA PRABODHINI 17
REMEMBER WHILE WRITING
ANSWER PAPERS (contd)
• In maths under line intermediate answers and write
final answer in block
• Draw to the scale figures
• Do your rough work nearby to the final answer
• Don’t run a long distance race
or a sprint
• You are running a
middle distance race
• Remember 1 mark = 1.5 minutes and
1 point = 0.5 marks

18. JNANA PRABODHINI 18
CHECKING THE ANSWERPAPER
• Underline
• Write any point left
• Check whether required no of questions are
attempted
• Check question nos
• In languages check spellings, grammar,
sentence construction, tenses
• In Maths check calculations, figures in
problems and in your solutions, decimal
place, units, scale, values of t ratios

19. JNANA PRABODHINI 19
CHECKING THE ANSWERPAPER
(contd)
• In Science check wording of definitions,
units, formulae, calculations, no of examples
to give explanation, balancing chemical
equations, labels given in figures, biological
terms, etc
• In Social Science check order of events,
details in your answers, map index, etc
• No of supplements, your roll no