All of us were once schoolchildren and were terribly afraid of school exams and, especially, the USE. Then we became students and began to be afraid of exams and tests at the university. True, every year the experience of passing exams becomes greater, and fear disappears. But those students who pass their first session, probably wonder: how to prepare for the exam as efficiently as possible? In this article we will try to give them some recommendations on this subject.
So, you are a student, and in a week (two, a month) you will have to take the first exams in your life. There are many exams, but not enough time. Naturally, you need an answer to the question: how to prepare for the exam with minimal time and effort? The following simple tips will help you:
- Learn during the semester. Of course, it is very pleasant to devote all my time to unpunished doing nothing, because it seems that there is still a lot of time before the exam ... Be prepared for the fact that before the exam you will bitterly regret that you spent half a year so incompetent. Most likely, you already regretted it if you torment search engines with requests like "how best to prepare for the exam." We are not saying that every free minute should be devoted only to study, but even a simple reading of the lecture material after pairs will help to consolidate the knowledge gained, and before the exam you will be quite free to navigate in basic concepts and questions. Remember, the more time you spend studying during the semester, the easier it will be during the session.
- Plan your calendar preparation. It is advisable to find a list of questions for the exam as early as possible, and then divide the remaining time in such a way as to pass an equal number of questions every day, while leaving one or two days before passing in order to quickly go through all the material again. How to get hold of questions? Come to the teacher and start a mournful song that you still don’t know how to prepare for the exam, but really, really want not to face the dirt ... We assure you that not a single teacher can stand this and will certainly give you not only questions, but also a couple of good books to prepare.
- Normalize loads. Do not stay too long with the book until four to five in the morning, especially on the night before the exam. Such training will not lead to anything good - an overworked brain will try to get rid of the information that is being "raped" as quickly as possible. In addition, do not hope that a purely mechanical reading from the sheet will help you remember something - read less, but understand the material that went through. Remember once and for all, cramming has never helped anyone - on the contrary, an answer based on mechanical memorization can be easily distinguished from an answer given with an understanding of the material. Moreover, sometimes phrases, one in one repeating the text from a textbook, can be perceived as written off, even if you learned them from memory as a rhyme in the third grade.
- Talk with senior comrades on how to prepare for an exam with a particular teacher. As a rule, each lecturer has his “favorite” questions or tasks with a catch, on which inexperienced students “drown”. Find out in advance your favorite tricks of the future examiner and try to be ready for them.
- Cook the cheat sheets. Even if you are not going to use it, carefully write out a summary of each question on the paper. Thus, you use not only visual, but also mechanical memory, and learn the material much more effectively.
We hope that our recommendations have given you a brief idea of how to prepare for the exam as efficiently and as quickly as possible. We wish our readers easy and successful passing all exams!