Tips for revising for exams?

[Lazmarr]

So I have 5 exams coming up and need some tips for revising for them since I'm not particularly good at exams

My first one is on Wedsnesday :'(

[Tedster]

Hey, some of my friends are complaining about those exams.

 

1) Stay off the forum unless you're asking for help with specific revision questions.

2) Please try to not leave revision until the last minute, but I'd suggest relaxing on the day before the exams so you have a clear mind on the day. Try to get plenty of sleep the night before.

[MountainDrew]

I always study before bed for a couple hours since then I seem to recall more information.  It was proven in my biology class to be an effective method of studying.

 

Make sure you're eating well because it truly does make a difference, and be sure to get an adequate amount of sleep.

 

And above all else, don't try cram in a ton of information right before the exam starts.

[o0Martin]

I have uni exams coming up too  <_<

 

While I haven't started to revise either, when I do get around to it as long as I have a plan set of when I'll study and when I'll take breaks then I normally study fine, if you're at uni, and you live with other people that also have exams (doesn't need to be the same course) then just go revise with them, that helps me a lot.

[ZetZet]

Download 5 seasons of a tv show you have already seen, buy many cans of monster and binge watch all those 5 seasons of a tv show. Miss the exam. Sometimes works out.

[Tedster]

Since I'm not doing any particularly serious tests yet, I'm finding that I do far better when I haven't revised much compared to when I actually bother to revise.

However, this should probably be the opposite for when you're having an exam because you actually have a real reason to know these things.

[Sauron]

I'm not very good at studying myself (always sort of brute forced my way through), but for me the best way of learning something is understanding it. If you know why something is the way it is, suddenly remembering it becomes 100 times easier. Don't try to just memorize it, that doesn't work.

[Sauron]

you actually have a real reason to know these things.

 

You'd think so, but that never really happens ^^ it's all abstract until you use it for work.

[MountainDrew]

Since I'm not doing any particularly serious tests yet, I'm finding that I do far better when I haven't revised much compared to when I actually bother to revise.

However, this should probably be the opposite for when you're having an exam because you actually have a real reason to know these things.

I have a friend who had an upper level radioactivity course with me last year and he never studied.  He always crammed right before them, whereas I always studied the information a week before the exam at night so that I would retain it better.

 

Needless to say he failed that class after the third exam and I got a B at the end of it.  

 

Now that I think about it, I hated that course but I still did fairly well  

[asim1999]

So I have 5 exams coming up and need some tips for revising for them since I'm not particularly good at exams

My first one is on Wedsnesday :'(

Crap.... Wednesday. I Know how it feels, I have my first GCSE exam next tuesday. Mind maps and past papers are what i recommend 

[blackadder]

maybe add more context to something, if you're are bad at math but good at history those formula were named after someone. don't cram the night before. study 15 20 mins before the exam. if you get stuck, skip it finish all the problems you can then go back. when youre done, go over it. if time stop if a few min dont try to think, thne look back over it. it seems so often you know how to do/answer a problem 5 mins after you're done with the exam. don't stress to much its only a test, no one told you to fix bayonets so, it will be ok.  

[Lazmarr]

Hey, some of my friends are complaining about those exams.

 

1) Stay off the forum unless you're asking for help with specific revision questions.

2) Please try to not leave revision until the last minute, but I'd suggest relaxing on the day before the exams so you have a clear mind on the day. Try to get plenty of sleep the night before.

I try my best to stay off forums and stuff but it helps me to relax when I read news updates and things

I try not to leave my revision to the last minute but somestimes I can't help it, I have an assignment due in and I have to complete that whilst revising for my exam

 

Download 5 seasons of a tv show you have already seen, buy many cans of monster and binge watch all those 5 seasons of a tv show. Miss the exam. Sometimes works out.

I do that occasionally..well minus the skip the exam part Usually when I have an assignment

 

I'm not very good at studying myself (always sort of brute forced my way through), but for me the best way of learning something is understanding it. If you know why something is the way it is, suddenly remembering it becomes 100 times easier. Don't try to just memorize it, that doesn't work.

This really works for me too, but only in certain subject areas like I love microbiology/virology/parasitology and the biology of diseas and pathology; finding these the easiest because I understand them, yet things like biochemistry just bores me a littl, I understand it, but I can't concentrate on it lol

 

Crap.... Wednesday. I Know how it feels, I have my first GCSE exam next tuesday. Mind maps and past papers are what i recommend 

Mind maps don't work for me, I don't understand them, find them confusing, and can't read them very well Past papers we don't get in uni, at least in my course, since the exams have changed and they come from a bank of papers

 

maybe add more context to something, if you're are bad at math but good at history those formula were named after someone. don't cram the night before. study 15 20 mins before the exam. if you get stuck, skip it finish all the problems you can then go back. when youre done, go over it. if time stop if a few min dont try to think, thne look back over it. it seems so often you know how to do/answer a problem 5 mins after you're done with the exam. don't stress to much its only a test, no one told you to fix bayonets so, it will be ok.  

 

Thanks everyone for the tips I finished the exam today, went waaay better than my other ones although I completely failed the question on Marfan's syndrome eventhough I know loads about it