The Student's Guide To Exam Success

Title : THE STUDENT’S GUIDE TO EXAM SUCCESS
Author : Eileen Tracy
Publisher : Open Press University
State published : Buckingham. Philadelphia
Year : 2002
Price : RM 83.80

Instead of pondering directly into the topic on how to be a successful student in an exam, this book starts the ball rolling by first changing your attitude or thinking towards exams.
It is crucial that you detach yourself from your grades because all the beliefs that good grades secure good life, great career and happiness while bad grades spell doomed for life are nothing but mere myths.
Having your mind cleared, it moves on to check your body and its health. It is normal in a student’s life to feel stressful and likewise more often than not students opt for a quick fixes such as alcohol, smoke, sleeping pills, coffee, tea or even chocolate. Though all these fixes seem to help lowered your stress almost instantaneously, they jeopardize your health in the long run. Thus it is better to stick to the five pillars of health that are moderation, exercise, good sleep, healthy food and expressing your feelings.
After changing your perspective towards exams and taking good care of your health comes techniques for success. First technique is to lay solid study foundations. You must plan your work to avoid time curse and it is interesting how by taking more breaks help you learn better. Stop procastinating, see deadlines as friends instead of enemies and get started!
Along the way in your study, like it or not you will have to memorise. But first you must understand and recognise your memory. Are you a visual person or an audio type? This book has a lot to offer in terms of stimulating your brain to memorise creatively. Either you go mind-mapping or other versatyle mneumonics.
To be successful in an exam requires you to understand the nature of your exam itself. Thus you must clarify your goals and make them realistic. There is no way you can get everything done in one shot. Having all the information you need at hands, exploit them, play around with them and turn your research into an effective and more fruitful activities. After all it is about optimizing what you already know.
Failing to plan is really planning to fail. Thus this book guide you on how to plan for your essays, oral presentations, vivas and practicals.
Finally, it is time for your exam. There are a few dos and don’ts before you go to your exam, in the exam and after the exam.
It all come down to putting your goal into perspective and live in reality. If you can make use even half of the techniques written in this book, you are close enough to be successful in any exam in your life.