The document provides tips for exam preparation and time management during exams. It recommends monitoring your time, adopting tools for time management, developing focused attention, using planning to feel free. It also suggests over-preparing for exams, keeping to an exam plan, carefully reading instructions, double checking work, moving on if stuck on a problem, and learning from any mistakes without depressing post-mortems.

2.  Better three hours too
soon, than one
minute too late

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4. • Monitor your time.
• Adopt tools for time management.
• Develop “focused attention.”
• Use planning to set you free.

5.  The key is to find out as much about the exam
beforehand. Obviously knowing the questions
would be nice but in the absence of these you
can help yourself by checking:
 1. How long is the exam?
 2. How many questions do you have to answer?

6.  3. Are some questions compulsory?
 4. What types of questions are there –short
answer/ essays /problems etc?
 5. What makes a good essay?

7.  1. Over prepare. That might seem like a
poor way to study. But over many years of
studying, I’ve found it to be sound advice.
It’s much wiser to take an exam too seriously
and find it easier than you expected than to
wish–when it’s too late–that you’d studied
more.

8.  Failure to set goals,
priorities, or
deadlines
 Too much socializing
 Failure to say no
 Interruptions
 Disorganization

9.  Some students find it useful to keep to an
exam plan. For example:
 1. Read the whole exam paper through from
start to finish. During the reading time, mark
the questions you know very lightly with a
pencil.

10. 2.Decide which questions you are going to
answer and in what order. For problem
papers like Math and Accounts its best that
you start from the beginning.

11.  3. You might feel better about starting with
the question you feel most confident about.
 4. Brainstorm what you know and plan how
you will answer the question. Take care to
sequence your ideas logically.

12.  5. Write your answer but remember not to
write everything you know - always keep in
 mind what the question is asking.
 6. If you like to write your answers ‘in rough’
first(like in English) make a small thought
box to have flow of ideas.

13.  7. Allow yourself time to read through each
of your answers as you write them and again
at the end of the exam.
 8. If you don’t know an answer, don’t get
frustrated move on to the next one you can
come back to it later.
 9. Wear a watch .

14.  . Elaborate. If you have a choice between
making a point briefly and elaborating, choose
to elaborate. A teacher reading a final exam is
reading to “get to done”–to assign a mark and
move on to the next exam in the stack. So you
should show your knowledge and
understanding in all appropriate ways.

15.  Don't let other people's panic affect you. Try
and calm them if you can but do not take
risks with your own well-being.
 Have a good opening paragraph
 Write legibly, if u don’t have a good
handwriting at least draw lines.

16.  If you have used mnemonics to remember
useful lists, scribble them down before you
start and before you forget them.Eg-PODSC
is
Planning,Organising,Directing,Staffing,Cont
rolling.(ANUJ USES THIS!!!!!!)

17.  Distinguish between different parts of the
question ('outline', 'briefly discuss',
'describe') and allocate time accordingly
 Even U don’t know a question write
something random or at least something
pertaining to the topic you might get 1 or 2
out of 5.It’s better than nothing.

18.  Read through the exam
Reading through the whole exam you can
› know what is expected of you
› prioritize items on the test
› pace yourself.

19.  Carefully read the instructions
Make sure you are answering the question
that is being asked!
Often students know how to solve a problem,
but they misread or misinterpret the
question itself

20.  Check that you have correctly
rewritten the problem
If you use a scratch piece of paper make sure
that you correctly rewrite the problem.
Don't skip steps. Start from the beginning;

21.  Clearly write each step of the solution
Be neat and don't rush writing numbers
down.
Keep checking your solution as you are
working.
Neatness makes it easier to recheck your
work;

22.  Double check your math, especially
your calculator entries
Double check your calculator work
immediately.
The chances of hitting a wrong number are
high, but the chances of hitting the same
wrong number are not

23.  Don't Dilly Dally
If you get stuck on a problem move on and
come back to it later.
When you are finished, recheck all your
work.

24.  Avoid depressing post-mortems with fellow
students. The exam is over, and there is
nothing you can do about it now! There is no
point in punishing yourself, especially if you
have exams still to come.

25.  If you have made mistakes in the exam, try
to learn from them and apply what you have
learnt to the next exam. Think about how to
avoid making similar mistakes in the future.
For example, if you found that you ran out of
time, analyse which area you spent too long
on - did you spend too long writing out your
essay plan, or deciding which question to do?

26.  Procrastination
 Poor
communication
 Failure to delegate
 Fatigue
 Trying to do too
much

27. “If you think you can
do it, begin it!
Begin and the mind
grows heated.
Begin, and the task
is completed.”

28. Your Future is What You Make It
TODAY!
“The best thing
about the future
is that it only
comes one day
at a time.”
--Abraham
Lincoln

29.  Have advance
preparation time
 Have more focus
and less stress.

30.  Work smarter not
harder
 Open up free time
for family, friends,
and fun
 Enjoy peace of
mind

31. “What you do today
is important
because you are
exchanging a day
of your life for it…
let it be something
good.”