How can I find ways to study to pass a big test with no test experience?
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Study your book and your notes.  Reread them, copy sections out, and try to explain the concept(s) to someone else without interuption - that was the best way for me...but take the time to find out which way helps you to memorize the material.  Classical music is said to help studing, but then again so is chewing gum. There's not one single thing it is merely studying your hardest.  Test will get easier the more you stud and the more you more the teacher's style of testing.  But don't cram the night or even the week end before the test.  Have a regular study habit.  I've been told what you don't know by 10pm the night before the test there is something like 75% or more probalblity that you won't remember it for the test.  Remember to get a good nights sleep before the test and have a good breakfast before the test as it is important to have a good have a clear head.  Remember to reread the question before answering just to be sure you know what is being asked, and take your time. Also check out this site: http://studying-techniques.com/ it seems it would be helpful.
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Just try this\n\nDivide your days:\n\nYou have 2 weeks. So 14 days are there.\nYou have 6 subjects. Take each subject and study that subject for 2 days. So that you can study all the subjects in 12 days. Remaining 2 days you can just revise all the subjects.\nFor example,\nTake the first subject and study that in 2 days. Likewise take the 2nd one and study in 2 days. Go on like this for 12 days.\nI think if you study like this you can cover something in all the subjects. So that you can get an idea of what is there in all the subjects.\n\nHow to study:\n\nIn a subject, see what are all the important topics. Study that first. If time permits, note it down so that you can revise it on the last 2 days. Study the definitions, side headings. Just go through the text under the side headings.\n\nOn the 13th day, close your books and recollect what you have studied in each subject. On the 14th day study for the next day's exam.\n\nIf you think that the first subject's portion is more than the second one, then study the first subject for 2 and a half days and the second one for 1 and a half days.\n\nWhen you take your breakfast,lunch,etc listen to good music and forget everything about your studies. But when you are studying you should completely concentrate on your studies.\n\nI have given a systematic plan. If you want to alter this and study in your own way, proceed in that way itself. But just try this.\n\nSince you don't have more time, you should study important topics and skip any thing which not important.\n\nALL THE BEST FOR YOUR EXAMS.
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get a tutor - it sounds like you have taken the test before, so find out which areas you need help in and ask them to help you.
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You can revise, there are many websites that will help you get used to the types of questions. It is not a bad idea to spend at least a little time getting comfortable with the test. Who knows maybe you will be able to identify where you have any weakness and can just improve that. It is your score, and if you don't care, no one can make you. After all you had 16-18 year of learning to prepare.\nGet good sleep that week, eat a good meal before you go.
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Try some yoga or just breathe. Take it slow and start a study regime. Do things at a specific time and don't go off it. Feel confident that you know the info. . Whenever you don't know an answer go with your gut feeling. Take deep breathes whenever you feel like you're going to fail.\nGood luck and just breathe.
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be a wide reader.. review your past lesson. concentrate it. try to drill. you need to apply the speed test. buy or borrow books that related in your course, reviewer books, hand outs and practice practice to become faster as you are to answer the question. because they can used it when you taking the board exam. trust yourself. and think positive that you made it. the power of positive thinking can help you to pass the exam. Don't forget to pray also.good luck!
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At least a week ahead of time make a personal study guide. This means if you learn or remember things with pictures, draw pictures on the sides to help yourself remember; or if you remember things by listening, make a song out of something and include info in it. If you do this, you are learning your way therefore you will remember it. Second of all, the night before a test, make sure you don't overdo it completely with studying. Simply reread your study guide right before you go to bed. Your brain will remember inthe morning. I then suggest you eat a healthy breakfast which contains oils (i forget what they're called) that are contained in fish. Sounds nasty but they help a great deal. An apple also helps you wake up (better than caffeine!) and stay alert which will prevent you from daydreaming during a test. \nBe prepared, don't worry and smile. Good luck!
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Remember that a good test will measure how much of the material you know and understand.  It will sample your knowledge.  If you get 80% on the exam, you probably know 80% of what you were supposed to study for that exam.  \n\nSuccessful test-taking depends on more than just studying the night before the exam.  As your class covers the material, read the day's lesson ahead of time.  When you finish reading a paragraph or other small section, ask yourself:\n* what were the major points of that section?\n* what are the meanings of any new words that you don't know?\n* how does what you have just read relate to what you read earlier?\nDuring class discussion, ask questions about things you don't know.  \n\nMaking outlines or notes of what you read helps a lot.  If you take notes in your class, put that material into your outline later. [If you use a computer with a word processor, GREAT!] I know this sounds like a lot of work.  It is at first but as you get used to doing it, it will go faster and easier -- just like learning to ride a bike.  \n\nWhen you finish a section, think of how YOU would explain or teach it to someone else.  \n\nIf working out problems is required (as in math or chemistry or physics) work out as many of them as you can, not just the minimum number required.  \n\nAny time you can draw a diagram that shows YOU how something works, do that in your notes.  Use your diagrams to show relationships among things.  Make time lines.  Cause and effect diagrams.  Decision trees.  Don't spend TOO MUCH time on these.  You don't get art credit.  \n\nIf you need to remember a group of things and order is important, write them out in a column and think of an acronyme to help you remember the order.  For example, ROY G. BIV gives the order of colors in the sun's spectrum: \nRed\nOrange\nYellow\nGreen\nBlue\nIndigo\nViolet.\n\nIf your acronyme can be funny or risque, you tend to remember those better.  \n\nIf you keep up with this as you go along, studying for the exam will be:\n* a quick rereading of the material\n* rereading your outline\n* a review of your class notes\n* redraw your diagrams\n* review the meanings of the new words from that material\n* rework the different kinds of problems you may have until you are sure you know how to do each kind of problem.\n\nFinally, get a good night sleep before the exam.  Eat something sweet or starchy before the exam (unless that makes you hyper and unable to do well on exams).  Your brain works a little better if it has more energy to draw on.  \n\nTo do well on a test requires:\n* Recency - you have gone over the material recently\n* Frequency - you have gone over the material several times\n* Practice - you have worked the problems and exercises\n\nCheers!
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Get started!  It's the best way to get done.  I agree with doing the easy stuff first - you get some of it out of the way and you get a good feeling of accomplishment / progress so that you don't burn out too fast.\n\nWork smart, not hard - use your resources (I don't mean cheating!  That will only mess you up at test time.  I mean valid resources) and "create" more as you can.  For instance, \n\n- for tests, I used to make flash cards of the major material.  You can bring them with you most places to study in the car, while you're waiting for other things, etc.  Writing out the flash cards may help you remember things, they're easy to transport and they focus your studying to the relevant facts each time rather than the whole of the material.\n\n- for written homework, this will often just take time, but you can still bring some of your smaller books with you to be able to work during other free periods (waiting at a dr's office, waiting for your other classes to start, etc.)  \n\nUse your time wisely - it's easy to waste time or to get very caught up in the amount you have to do so that you are paralyzed into inaction.  Be careful of this.  Consider a tutor if you're having difficulty with certain subjects - in the long run, your improved understanding will save you a lot of time.  You can also consider a time management or stress management class if your school offers one.\n\nIf you truly have too much, talk to your parents about cutting out some of the other activities or classes.  You do not have to work 24/7 and should have time to do things you enjoy as well, so make sure your workload, though probably challenging, is realistic.
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repetition is key. make notecards and carry them with you. study with other people and take turn asking questions.
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you should start studying, but like that guy said, plan it out. Get  hold of past papers. Do a timed one, and see what your score is. Go  over your notes to see where you went wrong. Do a past paper every 2 days, you'll improve in your knowledge, improve in  knowing what a question is asking for, and you will know how to do these types of questions come the exam. Good luck.
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Go get a study guide with practice tests on cd rom. Take a practice test each day, then look up every answer you got wrong in the book that comes with the cd rom.\n\nThen get a good nights sleep before the test, eat a good breakfast, and remember that the first dozen questions on the computerized version of the test are critical, so do your best to get the first few correct.\n\nWhen you get to the test site be sure to take some time to practice with the computer so you get the hang of how to do the computerized part of the test.\n\nGood luck!
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Just Study 4 the test.\nOr get someone who speaks spanish and cheat.
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Well \n1st look at the bright side, \nAll A's and B's\n\nYour tests and quizes need to improve!!!\nHere are some study tips and class tips. \n1. Make flashcards and quiz yourself\n2. Go into a room with NO distractions including; phone, t.v., computer, and other things. \n3. Do not turn on music it takes your mind off the topic\n4. Make yourself a self test, then quiz yourself\n5. Re-read the material\n6. Calm down, believe in yourself, and you can do it\nHere are some in-clas tips\nTAKE NOTES 4 your quizzes these are important!\nAlso, try and get your assignments DONE these are also important. Just keep working. \nIf you find yourself going to the computer only for games, step away and just THINK about what you are going to do. \nGood Luck\n\nRemember Completion is everything esspecially in science! IN science PLEASE TRY AND NOT GET A D in Assignments!!!\nJust study hard, and try better and you can do it. Ok. Here is the first step...\nGet off the computer and do your work! If your done, plan ahead.
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1. Eat Right (Don't Skip Meals)\n2. Organize (don't just reread notes) create outlines from your notes & readings, organize the raw material you've collected all semester (this process in and of itself is a form of study)\n3. Study - again not just rereading, try testing your self (make up questions or see if your texts have questions at the end of chapters etc.)\n4. Sleep - staying up late cramming won't help it will actually decrease your ability to test well.  So get to bed and get some sleep\n5. Take a walk before the test, get the blood flowing and clear the mechanism (so-to-speak) this will help you.\n6. The standards (your first instinct answer is almost always right, but always go back and check your answers, make sure you read the question correctly, answered all parts of it etc.)\n7. When you finish a test, put it out of your mind (again, exercise can help you here) and move on to the next one.  Stressing over the result of a test that is finished can effect how well you do on the ones you haven't yet taken.\n\nGood Luck
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Practice a lot.\nMake yourself some flash cards, with both sides and review them everywhere, bus, car ride, bathroom, in the hallway. Start early and they are easy to keep up with.
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how long do you have before youre test date? i recommend breaking your studying into different sections, and making time every single day. you probably should take a sample test first to see what areas you need the most improvement with. you can get a sample test here: http://www.ssat.org/\n\nfor math it's pretty easy to brush up on the basics if you understood the main concepts the first time you learned them in school.\n\nfor vocabulary there are vocab lists you can get to study from (which is basically like memorizing) but i've always found looking at the words themselves to be most helpful. break them down into parts. the word "confusion," for instance, looks like "con" and "fusion." you can figure out that "fusion" is the noun form of "to fuse" which would be bringing together different parts. "con" is a negative, or the opposite of something, so con-fusion would seem to be breaking up the parts that were once together. that's not exactly the precise definition but it gets you close enough that you could guess the right answer from your choices (you know it's negative and about order or disarray). try to approach your multiple choice questions that way, by eliminating the options that definitely don't work.\n\nfor reading they're testing how well you understand what you're reading and can figure out the main points of the paragraphs. try to summarize the essays into one or two sentences. what is the new idea the author is trying to say? what wouldn't be common knowledge? a lot of times the extra details aren't as important.\n\nfor writing make sure your grammar is perfect: noun, verb, punctuation. also try to write a paragraph the same way the reading selections are formed: include a topic sentence and then explain in more detail why you are claiming what you do.\n\nyou might make a light mark to the left of any answers you skip if you're not sure of them, so you can go back if you have time. but focus on getting as many answers done as you can from those you're more confident about.\n\ngood luck!