1. No limiting belief
please
Stop thinking that you can’t pass. If you believe you can
pass or you believe you cannot pass, you are right. I’ve known pupils who
thought that the examiner is their enemy. Please don’t think so. This is just your mind playing a trick on you.
2. Get to know the
structure of paper
Understand the organization of paper – Know the marks distribution
for a specific topic? Secondly, if there is marks distribution, is examiner
following it? The best thing to do is to review the past five papers. Make sure
to check out what is/are the key topic(s) i.e. examiner’s favorite.
3. Taking notes
Get ready for exams by way of ‘notes’ which you can remember
speedily when sitting the exam. This will aid you in two ways. The first, when
you write, your mind is programmed to recall exactly what you wrote down in
your own words. Secondly, you can review from your notes as an alternative to reading
a whole book exam day is close. You can
use this format to take notes:
Turn your paper
to landscape format, Then Put three columns in landscape form. Now, take a summary of a chapter in in a way
you can understand easily. Bullet the main ideas and important concepts that you
need to remember. Ensure that you put these notes in a form so that it can be
easily remembered e.g., mnemonics forms also ensure that important formulae are
stated in the notes
NB. This note taking method is only when you
absolutely have to cram for the exam in the next hours and you need to get a
broad picture so you can at least pass
5. Practice!
Practice! Practice!
Run through imitation
exam. Take any past paper and answer it as a simulated exam. Solve past paper
in the time apportioned in exam. Check your paper and give yourself marks. I
personally mark myself hard so that in the actual exam, if the examiner is a
easy maker I’d be prepared to give excellent answers
7. Absolutely do not irritate the examiner
Check for spelling errors and writing style. Your Script needs to be readable and comprehensible.
If your paper is examiner friendly, you are going to draw good results.
