Pre-Exam Ideas

Pre-Exam Ideas

Because we believe in your potential.

You are just 4 days away from your exam and you need to give your best. Though everyone by now would have been through with their preparation and must be aware of their shortcomings and the areas they need to focus on.

How do you actually evaluate where do you stand?

Evaluating yourselves is an important part of self-assessment to delineate your strong and weak points/areas.

·         The phrase that often comes to one’s mind is “I thought I knew it but I got blank during the exam”. Let’s not take the exams in a wrong way by associating them with our identity as a student. A score of 97 and we are on Cloud 9, whereas a score of 64 can send us into a deep depression. This type of thinking promotes a “Fixed Mindset”, which prevents us from doing what we should be doing after any type of exam performance, i.e. reviewing our mistakes, working on our weaknesses, and getting better.

·         The “Perform Like an Athlete” Metaphor: That’s a great idea but let’s determine how does it help? What do we usually do to study for exams?

1. Review our notes.
2. Go to review sessions.
3. Do tons and tons of practice problems.

To be more specific, “the more the better, right”? Try smarter plans to work out your syllabus. Setting defined criteria is a mistake because ‘knowing a little about a lot’ and ‘knowing a lot about little’ always makes difference both in our and the winner’s approach.

·         The Exam Prep Cycle: The 5-step process for making the actual test not sound like a nightmare.

Step 1- Practice exams and Pre-exam notes consolidation.

As the famous quote goes “Practice makes the man perfect”, we believe even if it does not make you perfect, it would at least illustrate all ideas where you could probably lack behind or commit the mistake. So practice more, not to avoid mistakes but to learn from them.

Step 2- Take the exam rehearsal.

You have come a long way studying and now it’s time to evaluate yourself more closely. Exam Rehearsals are for study sessions specifically designed to train you to perform at your best under test conditions. After your first Exam Rehearsal, you’ll know EXACTLY what you need to spend your time on next.

Step 3- Exam-specific study sessions.

In such high time, the goal is to make your studies more specified instead of covering highly plotted topics. During these super-targeted study sessions, we’re not “just studying,” but instead putting in a very specific type of practice which makes active recall of whatever is studied earlier.

Step 4- Take the exam rehearsal again.

Now, at this point, the exam rehearsal would act as a confidence booster because this would still offer you the time to trace the existing shortcomings and the areas you are still struggling with. This would make you confident instead of freaking out and staying up all night panicking about it.

Step 5- Pre-exam mental prep and refresh.

Last but never the least, you need to be mentally relaxed to offer the best of what you have learnt so far. The exam is right around the corner, and if you’ve followed the process you now have the luxury of doing some light and quick revision of the study notes, while at the same time getting yourself mentally prepared for the test and every conceivable scenario. Keep your mind calm and meditate if possible. Recall what you have already read, be confident as this would help to extract the best version of your potential.

The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win. Otherwise, why be a warrior? It’s easier to count beads!!

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