subject: How To Pass An Exam. Small Tricks For Big Success. [print this page] The fact is that preparation to an exam is the key step for passing it. Thus, it should not be neglected even if you attended all the classes and have all the notes and lectures in your memory. The level of your knowledge will define the time of your preparation, however, it is impossible to pass an exam without any preparation. Small tricks will help you to ease the preparation phase and make it more effective:
1.Make small notes and take them everywhere: staying in a queue to a cash register in supermarket, waiting for a doctor, watching a football / basketball / baseball game, sitting in a hairdressers seat etc. These may be schemes and diagrams, small notes definitions and formulas. Anything that is crucial for the exam.
2.If the questions are unknown, it always seems that the area of the possible questions is immense. Nevertheless, tutors will not ask what you should not know. Try to predict possible questions by reviewing textbooks and lecture notes. You may ask older students to help you with the questions. Surely, they will not remember the entire list; nevertheless, they will give you the general idea.
3.Do not try to get prepared at one go. Divide the preparation process into several phases and follow your own timetable. Even if you are able to go through all the questions at one go, few information will stay in your memory. Thus, give your brain proceed and sort out the information.
4.Support, motivate, and help your friends to get prepared. Do not refuse to explain your friend some unclear moments. If you understand it explanation will fix it in your memory even better. If you do not understand in full measure, explanation attempt will give you the idea, and you both will be able to sort out the unclearness.
Do not forget to reward you for every stage passed. Praise yourself with small encouragements for every assignment completed and every question studied.
