ICAN EXAM TIPS (Part 2)

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ICAN EXAM TIPS (Part 2)
The day before the exam
1.      Organise
Make sure that all the things you will need on the next day are organized. This will reduce our stress because you will not be running helter-skelter to look for your calculator, for example.
2.      Sleep
Try to sleep well. This will make your brain fresher. When you sleep, it is comparable to chargeable a phone. You might be fine in the morning paper if you don’t sleep well, but, fatigue will begin to take its toll when it’s time for the second paper. This is because you went into the exam day with a low battery.
The Exam day
1.      Arrival
Arriving early makes it easier to settle. It will also help you to familiarize yourself with the exam venue. This is another little way to reduce your stress
2.      Avoid negative people
There are lots of them. The thing about them is that they also want you to be negative like them. If you knowledgeable about how to deal with them, you can interact with them. It’s easier and more efficient to just avoid them. One thing I want you to know is that they use negativity to hide their fear. So, they are afraid AND they want you to be afraid too.
3.      Entrance
Enter as soon as the doors are flung open. This will enable you to fill you Exam number and other relevant thing without eating into the 3 hours. It is better to calm down and write your number properly because no mark may be earned on a page with a wrong number.
4.      Start
DO NOT OPEN THE QUESTION PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO SO. This can lead to one being booted out of the exam hall before it even starts.
 I recommend that you should use at least 5 minutes to read the question before starting. After you are done, arrange the questions , picking the easiest ones first. This will enable you to quickly score marks in the exam. It is also very motivation to know that you have scored at least 12 marks in the first 20 minutes, for example.
 Also, you will have a clearer mind. If you start with what you don’t know first, it will be on your mind when you are solving other questions.
Instantly rushing to answer questions after opening the question is a potential pitfall.
5.      Result
The is not the time to think about the result. The time you should be thinking about your result is when you preparing for the exam. It is that time that you can set goals and work towards them.
Thinking about the result in the exam will raise your stress levels because you can not directly control the result. The result will be issued after the exam and you can not travel to the future to know the result of exam you are writing. Psychologically, focusing on things you can not control WILL increase your stress.
My advice is to focus on one sentence at a time, calculate one figure at a time and so on. Only focus on what you are doing now because that is the ONLY you can control 100%.
6.      Time
It’s important to keep on eye on your script and another eye on the clock. You can do this by timing yourself, e.g “I will use 20 minutes to solve question x, if I use less than that, fantastic”. This will prevent rushing later in the exam.
7.      Case study
In my opinion, you should never start with it. This is because it is very easy to waste time on it. Wasting time on it will make it more likely that simple marks will not obtained in later question, because one will be rushing.
8.      Mistakes
If you make a mistake, there’s no point criticizing yourself. It is important to go into the exam hall without a fear that you will make a mistake. If you make one, so what? You are Human.
The funny thing is that one is more likely to make mistakes when he/she fears making mistakes.
9.      Review
Try your best to not dwell on any exam you have done. This is because you can not do anything about it. Even if you think about the exam from that day to the day the results are released, it will not change your results.

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Dwelling is a pitfall if you have another paper. If you dwell on a past exam that went well, you tend to become over-confident. If you dwell on bad one, it will lower your morale.

Also, try not to discuss the paper with others. This is because those discussions aims to identify marks where marks were lost rather than where they were gained.