Preparation for exams: how it happens and how it should be

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

It doesn't matter what kind of student you are - an excellent student who diligently prepares for each seminar, or a cheerful fellow who lives according to the principle "and so will give a ride." In any case, at the word "session" your heart will echo somewhere in the field of potatoes with ketchup.

As it usually happens:

1. 1. As a rule, you have questions for the exam a month before the date of completion. During the first week of this month, you will surely be visited by thoughts like: “Maybe, learn something?”, “We need to start preparing, time will fly by quickly,” etc., etc. And in response, your lazy alter -ego will say: "Come on, we will all have time, but now you can still do other things."
   2. About 8-9 days before the start of the exam, you start the countdown. "eight? Super, a lot! ". “7? A week? I will have time for everything. " “6? Just right!". "5? What a beautiful number …”. "4? So, I start to teach. Or not, I’m not starting, it’s too early.” "3? So, urgently cry all friends for their bitter lot. Yes, you still need to post some cool status about the session."
   3. Two days before delivery. You are trying to remember where you threw the exam questions, and the notebook with lectures is so inopportunely lost. At 8 pm, with high hopes, you will start looking for answers in the almighty Google. At 12 at night, you will understand that for 40% of the questions you have not found decent answers, but your constant desire to sleep will take over. By the way, before falling asleep, you will diligently convince yourself that tomorrow you will wake up at 7 in the morning and teach until nightfall.
   4. One day before the exam. Morning (contrary to your bright dreams) begins at 11 o'clock. This is the most beautiful day in a whole month. It is today that you go out several times to “get some fresh air”, listen to a couple of albums in your player, pester all your friends with calls and messages - in other words, you do whatever you want, just not to start preparing. At about 7 pm, you realize that you can no longer drag on. You convulsively fall into the arms of books, abstracts and the Internet, every hour you go to social networks and, noticing at least one classmate, you feel a sense of universal happiness. At 4 o'clock in the morning, you realize that going to bed is already useless.

   5. I went to bed too late yesterday, got up early today, I went to bed too late yesterday, I hardly slept. I probably had to go to the doctor in the morning, and now the train is taking me where I don't want to. Viktor Tsoi

      In prostration, you come to the exam, pull out your ticket, try to get out of your head random, school or hastily learned knowledge over the past night. You go to answer, you pass it, you get an assessment, sometimes even a very good one.

   6. You get home, meet the long-awaited Morpheus, sleep 5-6-7 hours (underline the necessary), wake up with mixed feelings: where am I, what am I, why am I?
   7. There should be a thought in my head: "I passed, I did it, I'm great!" (analogy with the famous anecdote about a crow), but you understand that you are just tired.

How it should be:

We start preparing in advance

To save your nerves (which, believe me, will still be useful to you), you need to start preparing 2 weeks before the exam. Before starting to teach, it is best to look through all the questions and find similarities between them: practice shows that about 20% of the questions turn out to be very similar, so that the answer to one of them can be “pulled” to the other without any consequences.

A few words about cheat sheets

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Writing cheat sheets is not just possible, but necessary. Do not download ready-made from the Internet, but write by hand, as in the good old days. When you try to fit 3 pages of typed text on a small piece of paper, you learn to choose the main thing. But it is not necessary to use cheat sheets on the exam itself. And why, because your mechanical memory functions perfectly, and you will reproduce the answer even without the help of prompts.

Probability theory vs Murphy's Law

Of course, if you have not learned 2 questions out of 70, then, according to the theory of probability, chances are good that you will not come across these questions on the exam. But we must not forget about Murphy's law. Moral: if you can't learn all the questions, then you need to at least read them. It will be very disappointing if you come across exactly those tasks that you decided to skip, right?

The day before the exam is a day of rest

If you have been diligently preparing all the previous days, then on the day before passing the exam, it is better to arrange yourself a well-deserved rest. Spend time in nature, meet with friends, re-read your favorite book from childhood - in short, do something pleasant. It is also better to go to sleep early: you need to get a good night's sleep and rest in order to conquer the "exam peak".

Correct attitude

If you think you can, you are right; if you think you can’t, you’re right too. Henry Ford

An important role is played by your psychological attitude on the exam. Be confident in yourself! Smile, while answering, do not hide your gaze, but try to look the teacher in the eye. Watch your hands, they very often give out excitement. If you are constantly twirling something in your hands or nervously linking them together, then it is better to hide your hands under the desk altogether. The most important thing is to always keep in mind that you can handle it. How could it be otherwise?