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Tips to Pass Exams!

Successful student, you have whole life to study but only few months to pass your Exam. So, concentrate on understanding what examiner wants.

As passing the exams require a particular skill set which is easy to learn. Therefore, we are presenting some mind mapping which will show you step-by-step that how to prepare for those papers where your future is determined.

1. Where Are You Now?

Start out by asking yourself how much you've studied.
Try to give a quantitative measure of how much progress you've made so far, for instance by assigning a number from 0-10 on how ready you are to face the exam.

2. No Limiting Belief Please!!

Remove the limiting belief that you can't pass.
If you believe you can pass or you believe you cannot pass, you are right.

There's an old Swedish Proverb that says:
"Aim for the stars and you'll hit the forrest"

3. Understand the Structure of Paper

First of all, understand the structure of paper – is there any marks allocation for a particular topic?
Secondly, if there is marks allocation, is examiner following it? The best thing to do is to review the past five papers.
What is the key topic i.e. examiner's favorite? Is there any article by examiner or any other relevant student magazine? Study that topic and prepare for it, even if you don't like it!

4. Taking Notes
Prepare for exams by way of 'notes' which you can recall quickly at the time of taking exam. This will help in two manners. First, when you write, you are in better picture of giving your mind instruction through written letters. Secondly, you can revise from your notes instead of opening the book when exam day is near. Here is the best strategy for taking notes:

Take a paper and turn it in landscape format.
Put three columns in landscape form.
Once done, take synopsis of a chapter in smaller fonts and the language which you can easily understand.
Write bullet points, important concepts and key ideas which you need to remember.
These notes should be used at the time when paper is on head and you need to revise whole subject in two to three hours.

Try your best to study a little everyday, it's so much easier to do that than is to carry the burden of knowing that the paper/test is tomorrow and that you're unprepared.

"If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over."

5. Time Your Paper

If you're unsure on how much you know about your papers, we would recommend you to look for an old exam papers and then sit down and try to finish it without looking at the answers.
Here is technique to time your paper: Take total marks and total time. Subtract 10 minutes from the total minutes. Divide the remainder with the marks and you get time per marks.
Example: If there are 100 marks for a paper and you have 180 minutes. Subtract 10 minutes. This means you have 170 minutes altogether or 1.7 minutes per mark.
Make sure that you don't spend more than 1.7 minutes per mark e.g. if a question is of 10 marks, maximum time you should spend should be 17 minutes.
Sometimes students try to focus on one particular question and if they are unable to solve it, they get confused. Don't panic. Start next question. If student has time, he / she can take up that particular question later on.
Try to allocate 10 minutes at the end of exam to review the paper thoroughly.
When you're done, count the number of points you scored and the percentage (points achieved divided by all points).
The higher the percentage the better prepared you are..

6. Don't Annoy Examiner

See for spelling errors and writing style. Writing needs to be legible and understandable.
It is noticed that spelling errors and the way students write, at times, is not understandable. Examiner has very less time to check paper.
If your paper is examiner friendly, you are going to attract good marks.

Hope the above tips will help you in your Exams. Share it with your friends, colleagues, and your family members.

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