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…
I have a personal checklist for exam preparation that I use 7 days before any exam. This checklist has been of a very great help to me. It has greatly saved me from cramming and late minute tension that usually accompanies exams. A lot of students fail exams because they do not manage the final…
It has been a long time and a hard experience to understand why students fail exams, simply because I was one of them. Not once. Three times within a year in the academics. I had prepared papers I thought I was supposed to have, papers I actually thought I was supposed to have, and I…
A simple study system that I developed transformed the manner in which I prepare for any exam. I can still recall how I sat at my desk, and looked at a pile of notes that did not make any sense. I was through with all chapters. I had underlined half of the textbook. I had…
When I tried studying without a timetable, I felt a different type of freedom during the first week. It was as if I had finally broken out of a cage I built for myself. I said to myself that I did not require any rigid schedule. I thought that I can trust in my willpower….
The knowledge of how to use active recall to pass exams was what made me change my approach to studying and the outcomes were evident in my grades in just a month of switching. I will explain to you what I did, why it works, and what the research indicates are the ways the mechanism…
If you are among those asking if past questions really help, then you need to carefully read what I took my time to discover about it. I had an exam where I did the best I could to prepare. I had read all the chapters. I made some revisions and believed that I was well…
I used to multitask while reading every single night, and for a long time I genuinely thought that made me efficient. Textbook in my lap. YouTube playing. WhatsApp notifications sliding in from the top of my screen. I was covering ground, I told myself. I was getting things done. At that point, I took a…
Approximately 3 weeks prior to my final exams, my notes were a mess and my concentration was reducing by the day. I came across a term known as “Pomodoro” and how it was quite useful for people in my type of situation. I started to research how to use the pomodoro technique. I recall looking…