Royane Real
How To Do Better on Exams
By Royane Real
Author of “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”
Do you get nervous when you face a big exam? If you're a student, then getting good marks on your exams is very important. Many people who are students in high school, college, and university need to learn better strategies to prepare for exams. Part of doing well on exams is based on studying, but you will also benefit from understanding how to do well on tests. You can get some good ideas on how to improve your exam performance in this article.
I'm one of the few people you will ever meet who actually enjoyed taking exams in high school and in university. I seemed to have a built in knowledge of how to answer the questions and I was very good at it. Most people struggle with the issue of how to do well on exams.
Remember that exams are used to see how well the students have mastered the material presented in class. If you pay attention in class, you will have some idea of what the professor or teacher thinks is important. This is likely to become the material that is emphasized on the exam.
There are various types of tests that teachers and professors use to judge whether or not the students have mastered the material. Some types of tests require that you write very lengthy and thoughtful answers to difficult questions, and that you back up your opinion by citing the source of your facts. A test that requires a lot of thinking and writing means that you should prepare your ideas and opinion in advance, even while you are studying.
This kind of test, that involves a lot of thinking and writing gives your brain a good workout. People who have a good memory and who are good at writing and logic can do well on such exams.
If the test is multiple choice, you might think it will be easier to do well on the exam. After all, you can simply guess, right?
As Steve Gillman mentions in his article about taking exams, some tests will reward you for guessing, and some tests will punish you for guessing. If you are facing a situation where you need to know whether or not to guess, you must find out whether the wrong answers will be deducted from the right answers.
Guessing is a good strategy in situations when you get points for all the correct answers. However, guessing is the wrong strategy when the number of wrong answers is deducted from the number of right answers.
( The above introductory comments were written by Royane Real. Discover other ways to improve your learning ability in my popular ebook: “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative” It’s available at http://www.lulu.com/real )
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