Objectives
By the time you’ve worked through this section,
hope you will be better-able to:
- prepare in advance things you’ll need during your exams.
- choose the best way to spend the time immediately before each exam.
- use the first ten minutes or so of each exam in the safest and
most productive way.
- adopt a logical approach to timing your answers during exams.
- in your answers, cater for the fact that examiners are human -
and probably tired, stressed humans!
- use the last fifteen or so minutes of each exam to pick up several
extra marks.
- choose what to do after each exam, so that you avoid demoralising yourself,
or wasting valuable time and energy when another exam is coming
up shortly.
Do you like exams? Maybe not, but
they're likely to be an important part of your life as a university student.
Some people sail through exams without a conscious thought as to technique.
To be at university, you've passed a lot of exams already, so your technique
can't be bad. But will it be good enough for your next lot of exams?