What is the best way to revise for an exam????
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Plan a schedule. List out exactly what topics you need to revise, and how much time you need for each. Then plan your revision schedule based on that.
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Make a revision plan about 6 months before a major exam and start reviewing one topic at a time from then.\nI feel envious of people who just perform well in exams without much real effort (so they say). The rest of us mortals have to follow the revision plan and cover everything as well as possible  in advance of the big day.
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Since most of your test questions will require memorization, the best technique to study for biology is to write your notes at least twice on paper and write any keywords that you don't understand. \n\nWriting will allow you to see what materials have been covered . Also, looking up keywords you don't understand and writing it down will help you remember what that keyword is.\n\nOn top of that, study with a friend. Test each other. Explain all the details to each other. \nDoing this enabled myself to actually do well on a bio exam that I took last week!
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Make some good notes, do not just 'read' by making notes you are more likely to absorb the information. Split each subject up into sub-headings so that each element of a subject is broken down into bite-size chunks as opposed to attempting to digest a vast amount of information.\n\nAsk for help if you need it, don't suffer in silence. I failed all my mock exams and was very concerned so I spoke to my tutors who were very helpful and I passed the real exams. Also speak to your follow classmates, they should be able to help you out too or provide support.\n\nGood luck! Overall, just try to understand the material the best you can and don't leave it to the last minute!
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it depends on what kind of learner you are as to what method of revision will be helpful - do you learn by doing things, hearing things, seeing things etc. ?\nyou need to find out, and then for example if you learn via hearing, record some tapes of you saying facts and listen to them again and again...\n\ni find it helpful to write down key points on cue cards\nthe mental process involved in finding the key points from a textbook etc and writing them down will help you to know them, \nthen you can re-read these cards over and over. \n\nBut ther are lots of tests on google to find out what kind of learner you are...good luck!
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Well...best way to get better doing something is practice...but short of that, here are some tips.\nWhen you study, try and give yourself little breaks. Work for 15 min., do something else for 7. Repeat.\nMemorizing...think of something it relates to.\nWhen you need to remember something, think back to seomthing that happened in real life that relates/is similar.
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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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I found exams difficult - so I used to write it down in say 10 points - main subjects of each chapter - make that into a sentence. i.e. the witches, etc.\nWhen you get to the exam write out that sentence and you will have the beginning of your structure.  Then you just put the substance around each each word.\nI did all my revision that way.  (and actually passed!!)
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Skim your nursing textbooks, a little each day.  If there is something that you do not recall or are unclear about... reread it.\n\nHave a fellow nurse quiz you with medical scenarios.  \n\nMOST IMPORTANT:  take practice tests.  Questions are frequently re-used from year to year.  Practice tests frequently use these older questions... so taking practice tests will actually expose you to NCLEX questions you will be facing.\n\nGood Luck!  Try to relax, if you fail the first time... it really is no big deal.  There is no penalty (other than embarrassment) for failing the first time.
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When you are revising for an exam your attention drops off from the start of the revision session then rises again just before you have planned to finish. So if you are revising for, say, two hours solid, most of that time you are not revising as effectively as at the start and end. \n\nTherefore I always revise for just half an hour at a time (or maybe even twenty minutes), because during that time you are working better. Have a good ten to fifteen minute break between each session. \n\nAlso, repetition is important. When you are at the end of a session go back quickly over everything you have learnt in that session and make notes on it. You can even very quickly (couple of seconds) cast your eyes over those "top-level" notes at the beginning of the next session, just to re-inforce it. But don't go overboard. Just scan them then take say ten seconds to clear your mind and ready yourself for the next revision session.\n\nAlso, conditions and distractions are important. Never "revise with" a friend. It degenerates into socialising. Never revise in front of the TV or with music playing - you need to be in the same conditions as in the exam.\n\nAlso, if you are trying to remember an ordered list, make up a zany list where the words start with the same letters (mnemonics) - Hence: Please Send Large Cows, Milkmaids and Zebras instead of Potassium, Sodium, Lithium, Calcium, Magnesium, Aliminium, Zinc. I learnt that for my "O-level" Chemistry exam decades ago, and still remember it.\n\nGood luck. Plan your revision, work in short chunks, repeat the important stuff by writing short notes and don't waste your time.
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Take a note of what you studied in simple terms. When you see those few tips what all you read must come to your mind. Keep many such notes. Go through them when you are free. Even sitting in a park observing the dogs play with a ball you can review these niotes.\nPRACTISE MAKES PERFECT.\nAFTER FOUR FIVE TIMES YOU WILL REMEMBER THEM ALL AND FAST AND QUICK.
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Re-write the information in a way that is easy for you to understand...Read it out loud, review it outloud, recite it outloud...\n\nContinuous reinforcement of the same material....read, review, recite.  Making Flashcard Qustions & Answers is a great technique too....read them out loud....hearing it, helps you remember...  people might think you are a bit wacked for talking to yourself outloud, but there will be a HUGE payoff for you!!!\n\n\nAfter barely passing high school in my younger years, I used this technique when I went to college and also throughout my military career to study for HUGE promotion tests....I always got promoted and I graduated with a 3.98 GPA.  Try it!  Good Luck
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1.read all old question papers\n2.concentrate on important and frequently asked questions\n3.try reciting answers to someone (preferably parents)\n4.read with interest\n5.only repeated reading will help in remembering facts,not just the day before the exam\n6.make some memory maps\n7.i found RECALL PLUS very useful,it is an excellent program which helps you to create interest in what you read,\nhttp://www.recallplus.com/\nAll the best to you !!
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Use the PRTR method: Preview. Read. Think. Review.\n\nPreview the text by nothing subheadings, bold faced words and maybe making up some questions you to answer as you read.\n\nRead the text carefully, highlighting and making notes as you go along.\n\nGo do something else for an hour but don't watch TV or go on the computer. You will end up thinking about what you read and putting it in your own words.\n\nReview your highlighting, notes and answered questions the day you read the chapter, before a lecture and before a test.
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think, revise, eat.........
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Firstly, you might be desperate but please do not SHOUT in the future, its just plain rude.\n\nSecondly, and in answer to your question... this is what I tell other friends who are studying: take a whole day out occasionally because continual revision is just not going to work.\n\nJust piling your brain up with coffee and trying to remember facts that you have learned, in order to remember them in an exam requires a long time.\n\nYou've said you have a time limit? that is most likely because you didn't plan your revision from the start. Trying to get it all in now isn't going to work. It's causing you stress and that is further blocking you from getting anything done. What you need to do is give yourself a whole day away from anything to do with studies and revision, using that time to de-tox - clear all that caffeine out of your system.\n\nWhen you come back to it, get a friend to test you, learn with you and revise with you, help you revise, because what you have learned is often far more than you realise, and working with company allows you to learn in different ways than on your own.
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Relax. Dont study the night before or the morning before. Just go over how to do the math a little. By now if you have not been practicing the verbal section there is not much you can do to improve it except going over vocabulary or something. The best thing to do is to stay calm and not let nerves get in the way of getting an amazing score.\n\nGood Luck!