Saturday, August 9, 2008

How to get good score in Exams

Writing in exams is different from what you study for exams. In our daily life, We might be seeing many people who study less, but they get good score, eventhough they attempt less questions in exams. How that happens? because they know how to reproduce what they have studied for exams.Let have a look at some tips to get good score in exams.

Time Constraint: Many people say that, I know answers for all the questions, but i could not write in the given time. Except for competitive exams, exams panel set question papers by keeping time factor in mind. So We should try to avoid to say that time is not sufficient for exams. Then how to manage time in exams?
i. First have a quick glance on all the questions and its marks. If you know some question's answers very well and those questions have high marks then complete writing answers to those kind of questions first.
ii. Write what is required and improtant for small questions (less marks). Even though it is big answer, we should write in short as it is asked for only few marks. Better option to write these kind of questions is try to write in bulleted points.
iii. For mathematical papers, if possible try to skip some simple steps in solutions. Which saves some time.
iv. If you are not sure on some questions, don't waste time thinking and attempting them in the beginning. Always try to attempt them in the last.
To the Point: If question is to write briefly on something, then don't start from history and keep on writing. If you do like this, the actual point which is asked in the question will come in the middle and could be missed by valuator and its also waste of time. Its always better to highlight the actual point especially in exam sheets. Highlight with other color pen or with boxing the key workds of that answer.
Enlarge the actual question: some times we get short answers for high marks. then what to do? then write clearly what is required to that question, if any equations or formulas are there, then write them and also draw diagrams if requried for that kind of questions. its also better to write some introduction and conclusion stuff for these type of questions.
Handwriting: No need to say handwriting takes good score. good hand writing makes valuator easy to read what you have written and make them happy to correct your paper easily. but please don't spend too much of time just to write the exams with very good handwriting, which would waste some of your time.
Practice: For some questions we feel, we might have read that question but we feel very uncomfortable while writing answers to those questions. For these kind of questions we should practice with writing answers. All questions need not required to practice writing while reading, but some questions do need.

These are very few tips to get good score in exams. Anyway study well before you go for exams.
good luck for your exams.

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