Minggu, 22 April 2012

Strategies for Dealing The National Exam


Every student at the university, must have experienced nervousness in the face of the final exam at senior high school. Usually they will be nervous and finally all of the lessons which they have learned will be lost in their mind. This is an error in the set of learning strategies. Normally students will actively learn one day before the test carried out, no appetite, stay up the whole night before,  and often they do not sleep until the morning before the exam.
This is a result of nervousness in the national exams.
Last few years I started thinking about the right strategy for the national exams. It is enough to make me nervous, because this year my sister was in second grade of Junior High School, so next year she will do the national exam. After reading from several books and articles I can make a conclusions and make some appropriate strategies. Okay, I'll give you some strategies for dealing with the national exam.  
  • When it comes to studying, start early and start small. Begin reviewing several days out from the final exam and do only short reviews that are meant to refamiliarize you with material you haven’t seen in a while. This is the studying analogue of skimming a book before you read it. It takes time and a somewhat gentle touch to get your brain ready to assimilate and recall all the stuff it will need to. 
  •  As you move closer to the final, increase the length and depth of your review. Ramp yourself up into a rigorous review of material gradually but intentionally. By 3-4 days before the final, you ought to be spending significant amounts of time doing significant things each day. 
  • The point of reviewing for a final is to see if you understand the key concepts of the course. But how do you know when you understand them? The answer is found out by doing things. If your professor textbook has not already done so for you, phrase each concept that might appear on the final exam in terms of an action verb. 
  • A very important point: The evening before the exam, stop studying. You’re not going to add much to your knowledge that you haven’t done already (assuming you’ve followed my advice above). Also, just like an athlete preparing for a game needs to stop practicing at some point in order to be mentally prepared and relaxed, you need to give your brain a break so that when you hit the exam, you’ll be fresh. 
  • The night before the exam, get a good night’s sleep, and eat a good breakfast the morning of the exam. Your brain is part of your body. If your body is strung out from lack of sleep and from having no food (or bad food), then your brain will suffer.
  • Finally, set up multiple redundant alarm systems so that you will be sure to wake up on time for the exam. How many times have I seen students oversleep and miss part or all of an exam? This is totally unnecessary. You probably already have an alarm clock; let that be your primary alarm system. Then, find a secondary alarm that is not part of the same infrastructural system as the primary. For example, if your primary alarm plugs into the wall, get a secondary one that doesn’t. A very good choice for a secondary alarm is your cell phone; figure out how to use the alarm or wakeup call feature of your cell phone and make sure you charge it up the night before the exam. Set the secondary alarm for 5-10 minutes past the primary. Then, set up a tertiary alarm system that is independent of both the primary and secondary. For example, you could ask your mom or dad to give you a call 30 minutes after your primary alarm is set to go off. Or, you could find an alarm clock program for your computer. It’s highly unlikely that a three-level redundant plan for getting a wakeup call at the right time will fail completely to the point that you miss the exam, and it’s easy to make such a thing happen.
It is a strategy that can give. hopefully be able to give satisfactory results. I hope you are successful readers, of course my young sister. GOOD LUCK...

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