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No really useful tips (other than to echo the music-related suggestions made by others – non-vocal or ambient etc), but one thing people often say (the night before or pre-exam in the morning) in relation to exams which is pish is this : “Well, if I don’t know it now, I never will”.
Not the case, I’ve found – if you can look at a note or whatever and then remember something from the hallway to the desk and scribble it in the margin or on the back of the question paper or somewhere, it can be blinkin handy.
Oh, and so can coming up with silly mnemonics and memory-triggers, especially if you’ve got to remember names and the like.
And eating right – loads of fruit and veg’ll stop you feeling sluggish. Drinking a lot of water too - but not immediately before the exam, unless you’re feeling mega-confident and don’t mind wasting time on being escorted out of the room.
How do you learn best ? Some people remember facts, others seem to retain the way that concepts or events link, whereas others (like me) recall the way the pages of notebooks or textbooks look, and so can remember what ‘comes next’. If you can figure out which way works best for you, you can play to that.
It’s always amazed me that this aspect of learning isn’t covered in schools (wasn’t when I was growing up, anyway) – we were just told to write things out repeatedly until we learned them, which isn’t always appropriate to the subject (copying out whole plays, etc? Nah) or people (bores the arse off me). I would have thought that taking an afternoon at about 13 to get pupils to figure this out would be useful – and pretty easy to teach, as at that age anything ‘about you’ should go down well. |
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