Success in any examination, howsoever tough and compititive, is dicided just by one element. That is individual merit of person concerned. Some believe that talent in an inborn trait. This may be true to some extent. But equally true is this that guts and grits too can bail you out of adversities even in face of an unfriendly luck.
For being successful in any undertaking, following points need consideration.
Fix up a benign goal
Setting up targets that are apt and achievable ought to be your foremost priority. This alone gets you going about your daily business. Like your present objective, let us presume, is to appear in a competition or an examination. You should
therefore concentrate all your efforts in readying for same.
Boot your memory
Your power to pick up and recall is crucial for your success. And your memory is based on elements such as: your own faith in mind power, creative interest is whatsoever you study, level of concentration while at work and other cerebral and physical activities apart from your principal subject matter.
It is such kind of a life style which can promise you a good memory and a good output in your under taking.
Best way to go about studies
Apart from setting cogent goals and caring for memory, do resurrect your study routine. This will automaticaly take you one step higher up. To begin with select a suitable place for studies. Kindle a fire for learning, select appropriate subject matter. Make use of myriad learning teachniques, and spare adequate time for reading and writing.
The best of cerebral exercises
Nothing serves your memory better than a consistent endeavour, which, all the same, makes you complete, competent and talented. Quality, order and revision/repetition are the elements which constitute a holistic endeavour. When a man is well disposed, focussed and metaculous in following these lines, he is sure to reach his targets.
How to score better in examinations
Students these days are mostly preoccupied by thought of scoring higher marks in their examinations. Their consistent worry is to better their academic achievements. To some extent such worry is justified. But, beyond a point it obliterates efficiency of mind and body.
How much you study, how long you study, the amount of hard work you put in; these must be confided with your colleagues and teachers. Never fight shy of revealing you problems to your teacher. Don’t hesitate in asking what you don’t know, don’t be squeamish in replying a question whose answer is known to you. This will help you attract outside help and cooperation. Every teacher as a matter of fact aspires for the good of his pupil. He is ever eager to transmit his entire erudition on to his student. He is, for ever, seeking your welfare. All teachers wish their wards to shine in life and bring glory to them and their institution. So do make it a point, that whenever you make it big, remember your teachers. And never hesitate in seeking their counsel on substative issues.
Prepare for competitive edge
The present day era is field for vibrant competition.
To survive in these times therefore, you ought to be a man of guts and grits. You indeed have that mettle in you. All you have to do is to remain alert and geared up at mental level. In order to clear compretition it is important that you prepare for your examinations with a competitive spirit.
Today you are called upon to compete for all that is material. And the contest is no cakewalk as you rub shoulders with—not one or two—but lacs and lacs of contestants at state, national and even international levels. So, it is no consolation that did well at school or college. Rather, you will have to make herculian effort to up you competence to win in a neck to neck race. Indeed those students, and there are many of them, who fail to see competition beyond school or college premises are grossly mistaken. Because a provincial or country wide competition will surely prove to be their nemesis.
So, if you are looking for a real success—which indeed you are; start thinking in terms of winning at national level. For that, you will have to brace up, and pull up you socks.
Imbibe cardinal techniques of talent and intellect enhancement, and see for yourself how the fear of competition disappear in thin air, and you walk through examinations with effortless ease.
The winning strategy for sanguine success
By now we presume you must have gathered, and adopted in pratice, the valuable tips explained in foregoing. Hopefully you must have already used this knowledge to set your house in order and increase your efficiency—the two prime requisites to hit bull’s eye. Armed with this knowledge you can blitzkrieg in battle of life. No more of examination jitters for you any longer. No worries, no frayed nerves. Use your acquired knowledge with patience and romp home with grand success.
Facing examination is an art
Indeed, examination is a miniature warfare wherein the cool and the clever show their mettle and come out winners. All the same, some students loose their bearings inspite of being potentially competent. Such morons are more likely to be ignorant of tenets described herein. If you too are unaware of success secrets unravelled in thses pages, you can make good your lapse and take a giant leap towards you chosen good.
Entering the examination hall
When heading towards examination centre, make sure you leave behind the fear, worry and mental tension. These have no constructive role to play in the battlefield you are about to enter. If at all you must take something along, let it be the weapons of patience, selfconfidence, sharp memory, cerebral power, and the state of art techniques of reading and writing. These indeed will see you in flying colours when results are declared.
In the examination hall
Make it a point that you reach examination hall and occupy your alloted seat well before scheduled time. If there 10-15 minutes to go before startbell, you may well neigh use this interegum even if mentally you aren’t ready by any kind of exertion. During these fleeting moments you can relax your body muscles, do breathing exercise, or try serenading your mind by meditation techniques.
Keep your tempo high
Having reached examination hall in time, taken your seat, and received question paper of the day; read out test paper thorougly and pen your answer with confidence. There shouldn’t be any scope for trepidation, for haven’t you worked hard all through the year? Also you have training your memory, and preparing earnestly for exams. So, take it easy. Take a step forward on to the long journey ahead.
Attempt easy questions first
Once have gone through the question paper from start to end, get going with your answer sheet rather then wasting time reflecting and contemplating. But take care that you begin with question that are easy for you. Later on you can attempt those, that are hard and require extra mental exercise on your part. Some students go along the sequence in which question papers are framed. Going according to that order, they believe, will be easy on examiner who will check their answer sheet to evaluate them. But is so doing they waste their precious time grappling with tough questions. Consequently they miss out, partially or completely on trail end easy questions which would have fetched them better marks had they been attempted on priority basis.
The lesson is this that take up those question first which you can answer with ease and elan. This paves way for better scoring as well as gives you time and space to thrash out difficult and mind boggling questions. For example, if there are ten objective type questions that are to be answered merely in a yes or no and each carries only 1 or 2 marks. And then there is an essay type question, of five marks total. Then, logically you should ettempt objective type question first as your scoring in it is more likely to be 100% as compared to essay type question which, therefore should be attempted at the end.
Take pause during examination hours to rest your mind
After answering 2 or 3 questions you ought to take a few seconds rest, stretching your neck muscles and relaxing your eyes by looking at distance, may be, to the greenary outside the examination hall window. Alternately you may close your eyes for a few seconds and do breathing exercise. There after you may pick up the thread again and attempt your question paper with renewed vigour.
The rest taken thus will bring hightened flow of blood into the brain, and thereby the much needed oxygen for quality cerebral activity. With recharged body and mind, obviously you perform better on your answer sheet, and secure higher marks than feasible otherwise.
Sit in examination hall till the end
Some pupils believe staying in examination hall upto last minute of alloted time isn’t worth while especially when they are through with all that they know and tow. May be this group belives in doing just what is enough to pass. They aren’t class conscious. You surely don’t belong to such group, else, you wouldn’t be reading this book. So, dont’t come out of the examination hall pretime, even if you are sure you have done your best, and you are also sure of getting good marks.
And reason isn’t far to seek. In today’s competitive world, a mere ‘pass’ desn’t serve purpose. Your testimonials must reflect calibre, else, you remain stagnated. Some students though play wise. Thinking why waste time sitting in examination hall when there is nothing they can do-more they walk out pretime in air of self congratulation. And not infrequently, it may dawn upon them outside the examination hall that they could have indeed written a little more. But then it’s too late to relent.
Ergo, sit in the examination hall till you are expressedly asked to submit your answer-sheets. In the tailend free time, persue your answer copy. May be you have inadvertently committed some mistake somewhere. Rectify it. May be you could add a few points to better a presentation. Do it. This is how you can use your spare time to give valuable finishing touch to your answer papers.
For multiple choice questions, try this
Generally speaking, it is easier to answer descriptive questions as compared to right or wrong multiple choice queries. The tips given here below may not deliver goods 100% but do serve to explore functional pshyche of a person who frames and finalises your question paper. Obviously you must begin attempting those question which you are sure you know answers of. Then zesoing on to more difficult ones, try this.
❑ In a multiple choice question, the answer which strikes you on very first instance—is more likely to be correct. Don’t overrule this intuitive impulse unless there are significiant doubts to the contrary.
❑ If negative marking is not in vogue don’t leave any qestion unanswered. Because even if your guess is wrong, you are not penalised for it.
❑ If options presented before you are a set of words like ‘sometimes’, ‘often’, ‘generally’ then the option ‘generally’ is more likely to be the correct answer.
❑ As a rule of thum, a choice of too crisp, or too lengthy and complicated answer, is generally incorrect. So tick that answer which lies beyond these options.
❑ If what you have to choose from is a conglomerate of zero, all, never, always; chances, more likely, are that none of them is a correct option.
❑ For 80 to 90% of questions, correct answers don’t tally on option sequence. For example, if correct choice for question no. 5 is the statement on option C, then same (i.e. c as right answer) may not be true for question number 6 and 7.
❑ Should there be 4 answers to choose from, and two of them are mutually antagonistic; then be sure the correct answer is one of the remaining two.
❑ If you must choose from 5 given answers, then in 90% such questions, b, c and d (any one of them) slots are found to contain right choice.
❑ Make sure your answer sheet has an attractive presentation. This would surely fetch you better marks. This certainly doesn’t mean that you go in for outlandish and ostetatious display. Following points can help you achieve this objective most sublimaly:
● First of all, your handwriting should be neat and clean. For, nothing else seems to impress an evaluator than this.
● Too much of cutting and overwriting are not advisable.
● Use blue ink generally except for headings/subheadings which may be black or any other colour, except red. Red colour is exclusive prerogotive of examiner, and should never be used by the examinee.
❑ As far as practicable, give long answers to essay type quetions. Because some examiners tend to be swayed by the body bulk of answer, rather then by its quality content.
❑ Before entering the examination hall make sure you are equipped with necessary paraphernalia like pen, pencil, ink, scale etc. Any lapse on this count is likely to dag you during the examination hours.
❑ Take adequate safeguards regarding your own health and well being. Make sure to take adequate sleep on preceding night, so that your mind is cool and rested.
❑ Physical excercise, if done during exam day, should necessarily be soft and moderate. Strenous exercise can be harmful.
❑ Adequate sleep and physical rest should never be casualty during examinations. Because these two are vital to recharge you and keep you in fine fettle for best performance.
❑ Pay heed to your clothes as well. These should be loose fitting and comfortable, so that you are not inconvenienced or distracted while attending your quesion paper.
Face exams on light stomach
For full 3 hours before sitting in examination, make sure you don’t take breakfast or any food item which may encumber your stomach and besmirch brain activity. Digestion of food in major brain funtion and while this goes on, you find it hard to concentrate on job in examination hall. No matter how sharp you are at mental level, a loaded stomach will pull you down. And with brain leashed to stomach, it is hard to do the cerebral exercise which your question paper demands from you.
So, you are prone to commit mistakes which cast you dearly in examination. They can put paid to your whole year’s toil with course contents. If you enter examination hall after satisfying your pallate, you are bound to feel thirsty and ask for drinking water in the rush of examination time. This too will break your cerebral momentum.
Yet, if its not your want to fast before exam, you may well neigh take something that is light and easy to digest. For example, fruit juice, curd, whey etc. since their digestion wont tax your brain overly.
Increase your mental efficiency during the examination days
What with work load on your brain going many notches up in examinations, its hunger for oxygen goes up in same ratio. To cater for this hightened oxygen need is vital if you must perform well on the D-day. For this, you must take a balanced vitamin enriched diet. Especially Vitamin B1, B2 and choline, which are flush in vegetables, like tupnip, pea, cabbage, carrot—should be taken aplenty. These vitamins are also availbale in fish, eggs, cowmilk, lemon, orange, pineapple, waterlemon, mushrooms, lettuce, spinach, peanuts etc. Start on this diet schedule 10-15 days ahead of your examination and go cracking.
Come out a relentless winner
While you take up the guantlet to face examination, you ought to aim at top notch achievement, and not merely a run-of-the-mill success. For this you will have to use all that you have in your magical kitty. Like—techniques of sanguine study, checking mood, swings, exploiting full range of minds potential, meditation, concentration, memory manoeuveres, regular revision, regular forays into new knowledge, reinforcing trust in mind’s immense potential, and meticulously adhering to notes taking techniques in closs room. Apart from all these, you ought to be health conscious. Mental alertness is okey, but rest is equally important. Be in touch with newspaper, magazines and colateral study material. You must be aware of current events and day to day happenings in society and nation, as this awareness is crucial for success is life.
Having geared up to this level, I guess, you hardly need any good wishes to enable you to make your mark in examination. For then, your success is as certain as day following night.
