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Test Taking Tips

Good test takers have good test taking skills. These students generally are able to relax and think logically, study efficiently and read their test accurately. Good test takers are also usually up to the physical demands testing places on them.
Let’s look at 7 smart test taking tips and become a better test taker.

Test Content:

1. Ask question to teachers and get whatever information they provide
2. Note important and emphasized review sessions such as “Write this down” or “Remember it”
3. Make list of areas that have been given importance

 Study Planning:

1. Work over your study schedule; decide when in a day you feel most alert if you are a morning person plan for studying before school/college and if you do better later in night study before you go to bed.
2. Set one study place for yourself where you will be provided with good light and can study comfortably without outside noise and distractions.
3. Keep your class work, home work, tests, quizzes, reports and notes in a drawer folder or box safely.

Learning Techniques:

1. Master your home work and if you will be mastering your homework, you will master your tests.
2. Make meaningful and well organized notes.
3. Make good outline that organizes much material in a small space.
4. Use memorizing skills, try to understand the subject, concentrate and organize materials.
5. Review your material daily to boost your memory.
6. Use flash cards to memorize dates, names, rules, brief summaries, information and historical facts.

Study Aid:

1. Try to study in small groups it gives more opportunity for everyone to take an active role.
2. Use text book to give yourself practice tests, rewrite questions and problems that appear in your book and test yourself.

Other Study Hints:

1. Use whatever human resources are available to you. Be sure to ask your family, teacher or counsellor if you are in trouble with a subject.
2. Keep flashcards until the end of the term and use them to study for final exams.

Health and Outlook:

1. Take good care of body because brain works bests when body is well cared of.
2. Allow your mind rest before a test.
3. Don’t Skip meals, don’t overeat, either. A full stomach can make you sluggish.
4. Answer questions, Instead of worrying at test time and prepare properly.

Test Day:

1. On test day bring all important stationary such as calculator, dictionary or compass.
2. Double check the location where the test will be given.
3. Arrive with just enough time to get settled, you may have to spend valuable time catching your breath and just getting organized.
4. Listen to all important instructions carefully.
5. Be alert while listening or reading directions.
6. Scan the entire test before you begin to work.
7. Remember to wear wrist watch so that you can track your progress.
8. Do not allow anxiety to get to the point of panic.
9. Always keep your test papers neat avoid sloppy writing, misspellings; faulty punctuations and disorganization also leave a bad impression.
10. Read questions carefully and reason out answers, phrase questions in other way to make it easier to understand.
11. Save some time to check your work.

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