Understanding how to pass multiple choice exams well is genuinely one of the most underestimated study skills in academic life, and I say that as someone who used to dismiss these assessments as straightforward. Multiple choice looks easy from the outside. Pick the right letter from four options. What could be so hard? I can…
I really had the problem of how to study mathematics without knowing anything about a topic and I would like to talk about it frankly because much of the information available on this topic is totally misplaced. The general advice is to do more practice problems or to watch more videos. And though neither of…
Learning how to memorize without cramming really transformed my academic life in a manner that I had never imagined and the transformation was not of grades alone. It was regarding my attitude towards exams. This is the type of anxiety that I used to walk into examination halls with, the anxiety of a person that…
Working out how to prepare for essay exams took me a long time because I kept approaching them the same way I approached every other type of exam, which was to review content until I felt like I knew it. That approach works reasonably well for multiple choice and short answer papers. It falls apart…