Are exams meant to test memory ability to relate issues?
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In education, certification, counselling, and many other fields, a test or an exam (short for examination) is a tool or technique intended to measure students' expression of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. A test has more questions of greater difficulty and requires more time for completion than a quiz. It is usually divided into two or more sections, each covering a different area of the domain or taking a different approach to assessing the same aspects.\n\nA standardized test is one that compares the performance of every individual subject with a norm. The norm may be established independently, or by statistical analysis of a large number of subjects.
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now or it will only go into you short term memory and when you go into the exam you will forget it. go over and over facts that you need to know and they will go into your long term memory
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It depends on what you call intelligence, and the environmental influences involved. If you have taken the tests before, you are more likely to do better--this doesnt necessarily mean you have gotten smarter. Also, a person might score really well on the test, but the test doesnt measure common sense or emotional maturity, which many could consider to be factors of intelligence also.
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I think research has determined that the elderly who have been good crossword games are less likely to develope dementia, so I would take that as the best mind training game! good luck
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The exam gives a standard, easily checked way for the instructor to evaluate the information gained (and spit back out) for all participants, supposedly without prejudice.  It sounds as if you have test-taking anxiety, which is not uncommon,  but is self-treatable.  Realize that anxiety over being evaluated doesn't magically end with graduation, as we are evaluated using such tools across all life realms, throughout our adult lives.  On the upside, realizing the issue lets you begin to deal with it and overcome it's debilitating effect.  Perhaps if you envision the VERY WORST that could happen (failing the test/course), and make peace in your mind that you may have to take it over, it can help you to relax enough to let you learning successes shine through on the exam.  Good luck, and try to remember it is just one test, NOT the only predictor of your future happiness.
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I did one in Year 6 in Australia.  The test was done by a psychologist, and there wasn't anything I could study for.  I remember there being some card with pictures on them that I had to put in order and tell a coherent story about.  There was some word association, and some inkblots.  Mostly, though, we talked, and he tried to get answers out of me.  Lots of looking at pictures, and him saying 'what do you see there?  what do you tihnk they're doing?'
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On the site below there are a bunch of different tests. Don't know exactly what you mean by "mental test".
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The past shapes what we are today. Good and bad memories both will influence your judgement. Consciously using memories can reduce the risk of prejudices because you are aware of the foundation of your judgements.\n \nGood memories can as well help live through adversity - the knowledge that things can go right. While really bad memories might be hard to shake of - the experience of things going really wrong.
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No way dude.Beer will effect your ability to remember.If you do stick to one and wait a little while before you study.I would reccomendd studying and then taking the test.Then get blistered.It o.k. then.
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not at all , it is commons sense questions.  Go to you local library and there should be a practice test book on it.  Kind of like the ones for college
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It depends on the individual.\n\nSome learn better by seeing.\n\nSome learn better by hearing.\n\nSome learn better by doing. This means applying the knowledge that one wants to remember.\n\nIt can also depends on what it is that one is learning.\n\nAnd certain things might be better learned in a certain way regardless of who is learning them.
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There are three basic questions to ask about memory:\n\n    * how are memories formed?  (encoding)\n    * how are memories retained? (storage)\n    * how are memories recalled?  (retrieval)\n\nEncoding\n\n    * encoding is an active process\n    * requires selective attention to the material to be encoded\n    * one question is at what point in the process is the distracting material screened out\n          o early:  Broadbent (1958)  binaural v dichotic listening\n                + binaural (2 messages but heard with both ears)...difficult to recall\n                + dichotic (2 messages, one heard by one ear, other by other ear)...much easier to recall one message and ignore the other\n          o however, cocktail party phenomenon suggests a late filtering:  all messages are registered but only the ones with meaning are actually put into memory\n          o another possibility is that where the filter occurs depends upon the task:  the more attentional capacity that is available at any one time, the more one can use meaning and then the later input filter (selection) (Shiffrin, 1988).\n    * memories may then be affected by the amount or type of attention devoted to the task of encoding the material\n    * there may be different levels of processing which occur and that some are deeper than others, but there is no definition for what is meant by "deeper"\n          o structural encoding (emphasis on the physical structural characteristics of the stimulus) is a shallow level\n          o phonemic encoding (emphasis on the sounds of the words) is an intermediate level\n          o semantic encoding (emphasis on the meaning) is considered deep processing\n    * other aspects of encoding\n          o elaboration=associating with other information\n          o visual imagery can be used to add richness to the material to be remembered (also adds more sensory modalities)\n                + see research by Paivio\n                + then have two chances to remember something:  visual and verbal\n          o self-referent:  make the material personally relevant\n                + this requires deciding how the information is personally relevant\n\nStorage\n\n    * Over the years, analogies have been made to the new technology of the day to try to explain memory...current theories use a computer based model or information processing model\n    * the most accepted model states that there are three stages of memory storage:  sensory store, short-term store, and long-term store.\n          o sensory store retains the sensory image for only a small part of a second, just long enough to develop a perception\n          o short term memory (STM) lasts for about 20 to 30 seconds without rehearsal of the information\n                + with rehearsal short term memory will last as long as rehearsal continues\n                + short term memory is also limited in terms of the number of items it can hold (see Miller, 1956)\n                      # capacity is about 7 items\n                      # can increase capacity by "chunking" (combine similar material into units)\n                + originally short term memory was perceived as a simple rehearsal buffer but it turns out to be more complicated:  it is not limited to phonemic encoding, loss of information occurs by other means than simply decay and displacement, etc\n                + perhaps short term memory is better modeled by the CPU of a computer;  it has the ability to store a limited amount of information in its cache ram while it processes it...a sort of working memory\n          o long term memory has been suggested to be permanent:  that nothing is forgotten only the means of retrieving it is lost\n                + supporting evidence includes the existence of\n                      # flashbulb memories:  vivid recollections of important events such as the death of JFK or the Challenger Space shuttle crash\n                      # Penfield's electrical
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Yes, or at least they should if you put some effort into the subject.  Even if the subject matter itself never appears on the exam, physics forces you to look at things in a very analytical sort of way.  The basics skills developed in a proper physics course will help across the board whenever you are called upon to qualitatively look at something.
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you should study until you feel you have memorized the questions and you feel comfortable enough to take the test.
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It probably means how the test is given.\nMight be a paper and pencil test.\nMight be on a computer, where you click the answer with the mouse.\nIt might be an oral test, where a person in the room with you asks questions.\nIt could be a performance test where there is a problem you have to solve using real items.\nI mean i guess theoretically it could be on microfiche or\nvideotape or almost anything.
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"Individual reference exam" is not a term used in special education, at least in the United States or Britain, as far as I know. It also does not come up with any sort of testing category when a web search is done.\n\nExams used to measure a learner's progress over time include teacher-made and curriculum unit tests, skills assessments like the Brigance (in-class measure) and the Woodcock-Johnson (diagnostician measure), portfolio samples of student daily work, and teacher observational notes.
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I think they give testing to children to evaluate learning difficulties.  So, if you or your child is not having success in school, you might see the e.p. for testing to find out more exactly what the problem is.  Could be Attention Deficit, Dyslexia, or some other specific disorder.  It's good to identify the nature of the problem, because then the e.p. can help identify a plan and some methods of working around the problem.