Friday, October 28, 2011

Ten Tips For an Exam Without Panicking

Number of teenagers anxious in tests when considering year-end the Department of Education. Ten tips for students to take an exam without panicking.

Some students begin to revise the March break, while others wait until May to delve into their books in preparation for the exam season. Whatever the strategy, be aware that passing these tests does not depend on the quality of revision work. Mental training also plays an important role. Know relieve stress and time management is as important as reaching to assimilate the material taught in class.

Besides the usual advice to sleep and eat before an
exam, here are 10 tips to deal with year-end tests with calm and confidence.

Prepare for exams at the beginning of the year by making the suggested
exercises and synthesizing lessons daily. It is important to seek immediate clarification on items that do not seem clear.
Learn as soon as possible to the date of the test, subjects who are on the program ... and those who do not! We can thus predict spend more time reviewing the material important or more difficult. Also learn about the type of questions (multiple choice or essay) and the duration of the examination.
The last-minute revisions are not used much and is often even detrimental to overburden the night before an exam. Revise a course that has not worked well have little effect. As against a return of the material is considered useful. We took the opportunity to register on a form difficult points to remember: a date, place, a
formula, a grammar rule. It takes a look before entering the examination room to refresh his memory. Invent mnemonics - such a funny phrase, the first letter of each word refers to specific terms - is another good way to remember the material they must learn by heart.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Hints and Tips for studying

In review period, I sometimes get students in trouble with their studies for a few coaching sessions. Confronting a review session constitutes an event that requires organization, motivation, understanding of the situation and some tips and tricks that everyone should be able to find. I give here a glimpse of a reflection on the method of study. In another article, I will then talk about the COACHING STUDY.

Motivation

This is the first item to arrive studies: motivation. Memory or intelligence, all that comes after.Before advancing in studies, even before the start, it is to be quite clear about his professional life project. Why am I doing these studies, what awaits me at the end. Rest assured, the answer to this question is not always simple and change frequently during the study!

Control its course, playing with his notes

If the motivation is there, you have to think in a second time to master his courses. No need to think too early to remember. It is here that we find important to attend classes, take good notes and make summaries (noting which page of the course syllabus or as part returns). Understanding, an idea both comprehensive and relatively accurate already underway (the chapters, the spirit of progress, the message that is past its practical application if possible).
The key here is not to be found the next step (AE) discovering his classes.
The emotional state is very important. It is absolutely necessary to leave the state of mind is to consider school courses as his enemies. You have to go (as possible) to his classes with positive emotions: curiosity, joy of discovery.

Memorizing

The storage is to be able to repeat, to return with his words very precisely according to the materials, the course content. An excellent way to proceed is to start with control (by heart) the different chapters and work with the summaries. I compare a course at a cabinet in which there are doors (chapters), behind which there are drawers (sub-chapters).
Remember, it's sure that we know by heart. Reread, re-read and re-re-read with a sense vague 'I know it's going' does not work! Better to drop its leaves off night, get up, and away from his notes to make the effort to check, out loud as you master the material well.

Structuring time and rest

Be sure to properly structure the number of days (you can split into morning and afternoon) you will allocate to each course. Such a course is very large? Give it four days during the blockade and 3 just before the examination, for example.As during the examination session begins? Review it after three days just before and not during the blockade.
Take time to stop and sleep well. Distract yourself. Do not stop at the gas pump to refuel, so as not to lose 5 minutes, take the risk of a fall down a little further.

Be coached to study?

Two or three coaching sessions are a lot of good times! Business managers or policy do, so why not you who are making higher education?


General Tips For Preparation of Test

The review and preparation Advice to candidates authors Dunod

Our authors, who are also applicable for the various tests examinations, have come together to offer you the advice here, if you follow, you will ensure success.
The preparation of test

General Tips

Periodically review (using memory cards or summaries provided at the end of the chapters). A concept or method is considered only if it has been seen and reviewed several times (5 to 6 times in a U.S. study). Given I'ampleur program must prevail review periods during the year.

Thoroughly familiar with the definition and meaning of terms used: in the corrections, we find that candidates do not master enough vocabulary and sometimes ignore the meaning of important terms.

Be a small repertoire of words (list of keywords with their definitions and possibly the English translation for the event DSCG 6).

Subject themselves to regular work and personnel from the manual: close reading, briefing notes achievement of personal synthesis containing the essential points (meet the definitions framed, use of boldface manual, summary tables) and organized by themes. Short sentences, use colors or stabylo to highlight the essential knowledge

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Training from time to time under the conditions of the test: same duration and exercises on various parts of the program, to learn to manage time and to focus on the long term.

Create for yourself a list of questions (definitions, short exercises ...) As the course to check from time to time and knowledge to identify areas for review.

Training to the methodology of solving practical situations and case studies. This requires the acquisition of rational methods for the analysis of documents and handling (ie identify the documents, identify relevant information, may classify and store the items or the timing ...).

Learn to analyze the questioning of a subject test in identifying the exact meaning of words and phrases to clarify the meaning of the question, for example

Use history to be a good training base.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Some Strategies to Better Teach the Course in Preparation for Exams

Challenging series

The organization of examinations to

Here are some strategies to better teach the course
in preparation for exams:

  • Review your notes after each class
    , or briefly review information every day
    If you do a longer review will be easier
  • Study the information in a group.
    In groups we increase the number of ideas considered and both increases the understanding of the material
  • Review your notes after the conference.
    It will allow you to review the information and get ideas misunderstood.
    And even you can clarify course topics with other students
  • Before class read passages of text assigned by the teacher
    airera That you identify the major themes of the conference
    Read over your notes briefly before each class
  • Take (some) time each week for a general review
    It will allow you some time to become familiar with the material
    so you can go to the teacher with questions
  • Divide your study period.
    If you have to study long hours, it is better to divide the time.
    So we can study for three hours in the morning and three hours in the evening.
    If you're tired, studies will be misunderstood

Revision before the exam

  • Do you organize your notes, text, and duties
  • Estimate how many hours to devote to your review
  • Prepare a schedule that determines the time to devote
    to each section in each subject of the course
  • Ask yourself questions and doing exercises in each of these subjects
  • Finish your revisions a day before the examination

Tips for preparing for the exam or test

How is it best to prepare for examinations and tests on biological topics?

  1. At the beginning of training the first day: read your notes fromlecture material, try to understand it, but try not to remember. The result for you: a general overview presentation about all this tutorial.
  2. Remember that the lecture should be read 2 times - at the beginning of your preparation for the exam and in the end - before the exam.So, the night before the exam to re-re-read their lecture notes. The most important definitions seek to remember. Teachers love it when the answers sound definition is a statement of their teaching. Result: overview remembering the most important provisions in this course.You'll be less confused when answering exam.
  3. According to the list of questions begin to read the textbook to know the answers to these questions. Textbook more fully deployed and explains that it is very short it was written in your notes. Note that some questions do not cover in class and you have to prepare yourself for the textbook. Teachers love it when students tell them the additional information from the textbook, which was not in their lectures. The result: a more complete knowledge of the learning material, filling the gaps that inevitably occur in lectures.
  4. Revise your notebook with practical exercises and razoberites all work performed. Here, too, may meet the definition and useful conclusions. It is believed that the student in practical classes should receive confirmation by theoretical principles, as set out in the textbook and lectures. The result: the ability to prove the theoretical concepts to specific facts.
  5. Look at the questions and try to define all the important concepts about which there is asked. If you can not give a definition, then find it and learn. With him are something you need to start your answer in the exam. Know that troechnikov begins his answer by saying: "Ever since the ancient times ...", and an A - with the definition of the concept, which we will explain in its response. The result: you start your answer as an A student!
  6. On the last day before the exam review the list of questions and make sure that most of them you may already be answered. Optional re-read the course material on the most difficult and "scary" for your questions.
  7. In the material of each discipline in preparing for the exam should "sink." This means that in preparation for the exam is not necessary to do anything else, nothing extraneous - we must teach only the subject of this exam! distracted only for a rest. And all the rest of the time - to teach, teach, teach ... Higher education requires precisely this ability: the ability to dive into the subject and to assimilate large amounts of knowledge in a relatively short period of time.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Exam Preparation Tips PSYCHOLOGIST

I PLANNING

The ability to manage your time - this is one of the most important skills. The sooner you learn how to do it, the better will be your learning process in the future. You've probably noticed that the best students (and often - student) - it's not necessarily the most intelligent, but as a rule, disciplined and able to organize their time. And often during my studies, especially in high school, learning should be much, but time is short. So if you can plan your time, then the mood will be better (from what you were buried under a pile leaning Affairs), and scores above. His plans better split into three types: long-term, short term and the next. And most importantly - buy a great diary, where you will record your plans. a) Long-term plans These are plans that you plan for a month or six months ahead. Note in diary vacation and holidays, as well as working days (if you're still working on). Next you need to fix the dates relating to the study (as soon as they become known): consultations, examinations, etc. And do not forget about entertainment: concerts, theater, etc. Now, set yourself deadlines for each case by doing the following: divide the big things into smaller, being allocated to the reserve (note that normally any case it takes longer than you think in the beginning).Then, for each case based on the due date, make a weekly schedule for its implementation. The result is a plan for your activities for the whole period. And it would be good to hang him to a prominent position (eg on the wall above the table), so as often as he was in front of your eyes. b) Short-term plans Do you already have a weekly plan. Now you have to plan out every week on days and hours. This is best done in a day of the week (eg Sunday) for the week ahead. How and when planning long-term affairs, you should make a plan strictly necessary to do (work, study, travel time) and install it for all the cases the timing of their implementation. This takes into account time of day at which you have the maximum performance (for each person is his), and allocate it for self-study. And remember: the best deal every day for an hour, than once a week, but the whole day. Lessons should start with more difficult subjects, leaving the lighter for you at the end of class. c) Future plans As in the preparation of short-term plans, the next case should be planned on a regular basis, every day (or night before or the morning - as you comfortably). Keep to-do list for the day. For convenience, you can separate the case of mandatory non-binding (for example, highlighting their different colors).

NOTE II

Very often it happens that during the investigation of an object appear extraneous thoughts, I want to get distracted and so on, especially when the subject is not the favorite. In this case, additional methods to concentrate, to make sure not to be distracted. You can advise the following.First, prepare a special place reserved for the study . There should be nothing more that could distract attention (eg, photos). Secondly, the position must be "collected" rather than "collapsed" . Better not to sit in an armchair, and solid stool. Third, you can turn a quiet background music , muffling other sounds that may distract you. For better absorption of the material requires an active approach. In the study of the subject, while reading the book stresses the importance of place, write them, outlines. Many of you have probably, in the study (usually - a foreign language) use cards with words. Very useful method. It can be used for all other subjects, writing, for example, the rules of the Russian language, physical laws, mathematical formulas, etc. Also verify that the degree of mastery of the material increases the group sessions. This method is also known STUDY (in English it is called a "survey, question, read, recite, review", or SQ3R, ie, "survey, question, read, paraphrase, repetition "). THE FIRST STEP - an overview of the material: viewing headers and scamper to represent the total content. SECOND STEP - for each subject (title) to formulate one question. THIRD STEP - read the text and in the course of reading to try to find answers to the questions.STEP FOUR - to answer these questions. The fifth and final step - to repeat the material (dwelling on the difficult places).

III MEMORIZATION

It is good to take the exam, you must learn a lot, remember. Therefore, storage - a key point. So, we must learn well and a lot to remember.
Here are a few methods for training the memory at all.
To remember, for example, telephone number 231-97-75, we can divide all the numbers into groups and each group come up with a simple association. For example: 23 - the age of his brother, 1977 - the year of birth sisters, 5 - a month of her birth. Instead of seven pieces of information was only three, and they belong to the family.
To remember the names of new acquaintances, you can use this method: to repeat the name aloud (for example, often referring to him by name).It is known that the auditory information is held in memory longer than the visual (though this is not true for all), so-to-remember telephone number that you see written, repeat it out loud several times.
Mnemonic method. To facilitate the memorization of a list of unrelated words give it a different structure and meaning. Everyone with children knows how to remember the order of the colors of the rainbow (for those who have not yet had children, said: "Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant sits" - "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Blue, Purple "). There are other examples. Astronomers remember the order of the planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) using such a phrase: "Sea Wolf tortured Young Jung, is quite unfortunate Utomi Teen", and mathematics - the digits of "pi" ( 3.14159265358979) the phrase "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics" (or in Russian about, keeping a mnemonic rule, like this: "How I wish and wish to kick the devils after these stupid reports , suggestive heavy depression "). Here we use the number of letters in words.
The method of loci. First you need to go to his apartment (or another well-known place of you) in any particular order (for example, from the front door to the farthest point of the apartment) and number each piece of furniture that will meet you on the way. Remember this list. Since this is a well known place for you, it's not in the cellar. It can turn out up to twenty words. This is a basic, key words that you use to store absolutely any other words. Suppose you have something like "door hanger, closet," and remember you have a list of products that need to buy in the store: "butter, a package of potato bread." You do this: bind each item you need to remember the subject of a key list (a piece of furniture) and try this bright and colorful present. Butter smeared on the door, a package of potatoes, hanging on the rack, cabinet, packed scored bread, etc. And then you just have to remember this picturesque scene to remember the long (or not) a list of products. Studies have shown that this method is very effective. Offered to remember five lists of twenty subjects each. Those who used the method of loci, recalled nearly three times more items than those who did not use them.

IV PREPARATION FOR EXAMS

Initially, that is not directly related to the subject and its study. This appearance of the written exam. Write neatly and without grammatical errors, clear and simple language. Although it is not the most important, but other things being equal it may improve assessment of your work compared to others.
If possible, try to approximate the conditions in preparation for the exam to those who will be during the exam. Ideally, if you will prepare in the same room and at the same table, where sit the exam. Help recall forgotten information on the exam can taste and smell. During the preparation of and during delivery, they must match. For example, you can eat chocolate (though simple enough to feel the smell), or chew gum. And for each subject to choose a certain gum taste (and smell). Mathematics - strawberry, chemistry - mint, etc. If you start the exam chewing gum, which is chewed in preparation, it will help you remember more. Incidentally, there are cases where teachers are not allowed to chew gum in the exams.If so, then you have come up with other sources of taste or smell it - sweets, perfumes, etc.
Some people, such methods are used not only in exams but also in the performance of its core operations to increase its productivity. One, people need to work during the coffee, the other - to listen to certain music, the third - to inhale scents of certain perfumes. Something for everyone helps their work better.
On examination it is best to go half-starved. After a hearty breakfast, you will want to sleep, and do not take the test.
Do not forget to take breaks. Work out an hour and a half, rest 10 minutes. If you are tired and want to sleep, it is best to do so. Needless to force yourself, the more benefit that still will not.

V EXAM

Start with easy questions, but difficult to leave afterwards.
Do not spend too much time on any one issue (except for a simpler time, just not enough).
Try to plan and calculate the time so that you have enough time for all the questions and left More on the final check. (This can be done in advance - it is commonly known as will issues the ticket and how much time is spent on training.)
Exams are afraid of everything. The first desire - to swallow sedatives. However, valerian, valokordin, not to mention the more serious drugs, not only to soothe the nerves. They inhibit all the processes in the body. At a time when the brain would have to run at maximum speed, it would be lazy to look for differences between the chaise and Chichikov's "The Overcoat" by Gogol. The result - complete peace of mind when disclosure of the failed points for the exam.
Remember - almost all in more or less worried about the exam. If a bit, it's a good thing - there is mobilization of the body, he is "ready". But if the emotion is strong, it's bad. You all will fly out of my head. In this case, you can use several methods to cope with stress.
First of all, you can scroll through the entire exam in his brain. Here you calm down, go into the audience, there you are at rest answer all questions. "Lived" this in mind, during this exam you will feel much calmer and more confident.
Secondly, learn more than is required, and longer than you think necessary. You must stay a certain reserve, which will help in the exam easier to remember stuff and feel more confident in myself.
Third, you can calm down directly in front of the audience. Stop Panic exciting conversations with friends and remember and reproduce in the brain something nice and quiet, not related to the exam. For example, you went to summer vacation in Egypt and there rode on camels and swam in the warm sea.
If you have forgotten something in the exam, try to remember it, using free association. Write down the first thing that comes to mind on this subject. These words will help you to extract and others, and eventually you will be able to extract from the brain to answer your question.

And remember:
- The biggest mistake of all applicants is that they try to solve all tasks. In fact, scoring system is organized so that it is better to solve the ideal half than all, but with the defects and blots.
- Of all the time allotted to the exam, half must remain on checking and rewriting.
- Draft - a very important document because it if the teacher will be hampered with the scoring, he will turn first to the draft.
- examiner - a person who does not have to hide their subjectivity. So it is worth to get rid of anything that would place it against you. Even if you say the right things, but the drawl and roll your eyes, the teacher will be difficult to impartially evaluate your knowledge.
- Applicant forgets that answer - it's not a monologue but a dialogue with the teacher. So it makes sense to listen carefully to the question and watch the reaction of the teacher.
- Ideal applicant one that his appearance does not disrupt the examination. If the teacher finds him just before the answer, the applicant may be written in the active one point.

Some tips for preparing for the exam

1. Getting in structuring: it is difficult to start all unusual for a business or belong to an unusual mode of the day for yourself or work. We are trying to postpone it for later. But then can not come.You should provide for a new business the time and spend it only on themselves and entreaties to torture, as first nothing will be obtained. And perhaps, after weeks of torment you include in the new regime of the day for you and begin to prepare for the exam.

2. Connection between the level of concern with the level of claims: To allay fears and anxiety before an exam, you need to seriously prepare for the exam over a long period of time. However, if you do not know much, but have a high level of aspiration associated with the receipt, you will have expressed concern and anxiety. To remove them, or should be well prepared, or reduce the level of claims associated with the receipt.

3. Understanding, not memorization: It is important to prepare for exams to understand the material under study, rather than memorize it mechanically. Mechanical memory belongs to the category of short-term, if you do not understand what you can do so quickly forgotten. Thus, the installation must be on memorization, but on the understanding, with the exception of some materials that require rote (historical dates, exceptions to the rules of spelling, etc.)

4. Exercises for rote: To improve the mechanical memorization of dates, numbers, symbols, etc.need to create vivid images of the association, and it is desirable that these images were non-standard and had a memorable relationship with the context.

5. It is not recommended to learn new material just before the test (one, two weeks): It can obscure the old material, make it difficult to recall. It is better for two weeks before the exam do repeat, confirming the studied material

6. The trial examination: should participate in at least two test exams, to adapt to the exam: the familiar, familiar environment, we spend less effort.

7. Rest before the exam: In two - three days before the exam is necessary to stop preparing for it - more fun, relax.

8. Physical training: In order to be in good shape intellectual, maintain my physical and mental health, need some exercise. Physical activity for each individual, but ten-minute warm-up exercises may be recommended to all as needed in between intellectual activity, namely:

  • circular movements of the head in order to relieve the tension from the cervical vertebrae;
  • massage of the cervical vertebrae, and in particular the 7th cervical vertebra;
  • torso, or "belly dance";
  • exercise "Vanka vstanka": lying on your back, lift and lower the legs over his head;
  • massage or full body.
  • These exercises and massage can remove mental and physical stress and regulate the right during the life energy qi, for which the necessary flexibility of the spine. Therefore, all these exercises in one way or another connected with the spine.

    9. The most comfortable position for employment , contributing to increased intellectual power - pose the student: his legs under him, or lotus posture false: the legs are crossed. Our usual posture when we are sitting on a chair and your feet hang over - not the most optimal for training. So, the closer your feet to the housing body, the more efficient our energy is distributed in intellectual activity.

    10. Advice on nutrition: Your meal should be rich in vitamins and micronutrients and calories to be as intellectual activity the body uses more energy than the exercise (meat, fish, cauliflower, chocolate, multivitamins - Yunikap etc., vitamin C)

    11. A certain dose of entertainment: do not miss the fun while preparing for the exam: Reward yourself for a successful week of training a day of rest and entertainment. Otherwise it may be fatigue, which can negate all your efforts in training. The main symptoms of fatigue : a bad mood, irritability, lack of interest, reduction of intellectual activity: poor analysis, synthesis, understanding, remembering, etc., and poor medical condition: illness, exacerbation of Chronicles.

    12. Not in conflict: conflict, quarrel, resentment take a part of the intellectual energy. This "luxury" can not afford. Need to forgive all his enemies, not necessarily at the same time to communicate with them.

    13. Do not waste time making cheat sheets: the knowledge that you learn, even if you consider them irrelevant to your future profession and enrich you, develop your ability to think, and secondly, that you have the cheat sheets on the exam increases your anxiety, which lowers the productivity of your intellectual activity in the third, you could lose everything if they show up.

    14. Unpredictable social change can suddenly deprive us of the amassed money, property and political power: But what we have learned is always ours, and this is the most reliable part. to contribute to the self, become professionals in their , so you will reap love neighbor and receive a guarantee of its usefulness for all twists of fate.

    15. If you're going to go to the exam with a large number of relatives and friends, keep in mind that this factor may increase the importance of the examination and admission (ie, the significance of the future), and prevent you from concentrating on the process of solution, ie be "here and now."

    16. Before an exam to get enough sleep, have breakfast, though not recommended for super-dense breakfast (sleepy), if there are some rituals that bring you success - to fulfill them. If excessively worried and tense - to do a physical workout, especially loosen up the spine or back massage and tune in to success.

    Come to the examination is desirable in the usual attire for you , which you yourself feel comfortable. It is undesirable to wear something new (redundant power inputs for adaptation)

    17. In order to remove unnecessary anxiety before the test and its accompanying symptoms associated with gastro-intestinal tract, you need to massage the point of 'divine composure. " It is located in the upper segment of the outer edge of the tibia (four fingers below the end of the patella on the right side). Identify it can be painful.

    18. To improve intelligence, accelerating the pace of thought, reaction rates, observation, it is desirable to improve memorization of dates massage "point-to-computer". This point is located on the back: spinous process III thoracic vertebra, and sometimes region II or thoracic spinous processes under IY thoracic vertebra. Point should be massaged in the morning, after washing, one and a half minutes with a toothbrush causing them to vegetable oil. Points lying on his back, rubbing a washcloth. The same manipulation doing is before bedtime. These points can be massaged as a single dose, if necessary, and within 2 months or more for medical purposes.

    19.Povedenie during the exam: Do not interfere, do not be angry, to abstract from the audience, not to hurry with the answers: the time is usually enough to everyone. You must choose an effective strategy for solving the test tasks, depending on your individual circumstances. If you overdo quickly, it's probably better for you to answer questions on those subjects, which are chosen profession have a high rate. If you have an inert nervous system, which manifests itself in the long rocking, turn - start with the easiest questions, then move on to difficult.

    20. At the exam as included in the present time, the future will think after the exam: Forget about your score. Enjoy the process of solving the test tasks. Remember that you will be assessed.Orientation for the future can reduce your productivity and success, as increases the anxiety and alarm. True, a little anxiety and anxiety should be, because they needed to mobilize the whole body, but should not go off scale, and on the feeling of fear and panic anxiety: a state is not conducive to sound decision-making.