Exams are coming up quickly. Start preparing one week in advance. Knowing what to expect is more than half of the battle. You don't want to waste your time reviewing/learning material that isn't going to be covered on the exam. Speak to your teacher. Find out what is going to be covered on the exam. Will it cover the material all the way back to the beginning of the school year? or the semester? or since the last exam? What type of test questions can you expect? Multiple choice, short answer, essay, problems, all of the above or some of the above?
Make a list of what you expect to be covered on the exam based on the information that you got by asking your teacher or by reviewing what was emphasized on in class, on previous tests.
Manage Your Time
Begin studying for your exams about one (1) week in advance. Plan your time. Pull out a daily calendar. Block out the time that you have available to study. Plan all your available time. Exams are your priority. Don't be tempted to do anything other than studying with your free time. Divide the time equally among your subjects. Plan all of the time the night before an exam studying for the next days exam. If you have two exams on the same day divide your study time between the two exams.
Now is not the time to re-read all of the material that is going to be covered. Pull out your old homework, quizzes and tests. Be sure that you know what you knew when you took the quiz or test. Learn what you didn't know? Look up the answers to the questions that you missed. Pull out your notes for the material that will be covered on the exam, rewrite them. The act of re-writing your notes is the best way of studying them. Just re-reading will not help. If you find that there are gaps in your notes fill them in by asking your teacher, refer to your text, ask a friend. Find the answer. Redo the homework assignments that will be covered on the exam. Active studying (actions described below) will help your performance on exams. Passive studying (reading alone) will not allow you to retain the information.
Be an Active Studier
Write a crib sheet
Take all of the most important information from your text, notes, homework, quizzes and tests and write it down in outline (abbreviated) form on one or two sheets of paper and then do all of your studying from these sheets.
Write Sample Essays
Anticipate the essay questions that the teacher is going to ask and write essays to answer those questions.
Solve Problems
For the exams that will ask you to solve problems. Solve as many problems as time allows from prior tests, homework and the text book.
Make sample tests. Take 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper and fold them in half vertically. On the left write questions, problems, terms, formulas, theorems. On the right put the answer to the questions, solutions to the problems, the proofs of the theorems, and solve the formulas. This makes a great study guide.
Memorize the questions and the answers. Cover the questions of the left side and write out the answers on blank paper over and over until you have memorized them. Reading the questions and reciting the answers will not cut it.
Study Until Your are Confident
Good Luck!
Source: How to Study, A Brief Guidewww.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html
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