1. Study notes, slides and review related lectures.
The most common thing advisable to examiners is to recall their previous lessons. Obtain as much knowledge as you can but do not over do it as it may be stressful to the brain and makes it more harder to grasp ideas and understand concepts. Study in your most comfortable place and time. If you want to do it with music, you can. If you want to study using mnemonics, well I knew a lot which for them was effective. For me, there is no condition nor requirement to learn, just learn the way you wanted.
2. Plan your study time
Well, exams are most of the time cruel. Some students like us, have a the same examination date with other courses/subjects thus it sometimes confuses us on what to prioritize. Planning your study time for an specific area of course would be useful to organize thought and the flow of information which our brain digests.
3. Rest from time to time
I had to include this tip even though I knew some wouldn’t try doing this. But, this is really advisable! Never force your brain to indulge information abruptly. You can rest just 5 minutes (not more than 5 minutes coz you’ll end up falling asleep or scrolling through your mobile phones). Eat snacks or drink water during your study break, you can also socialize with others for a short period of time. Since, you have your made-schedule in Tip 2 you can resume your work well.
4. Find motivation if there is none, motivate yourself
Motivations are like energy bars or fuel for our inner self as it keeps us going. I have made a dichotomy (self made) of motivation those motivation that are personal and motivation that was environment-driven.
Personal Motivation are those that we naturally have such as belief or part of our intentions such as goals. Some of it were our dreams and that our negligence would lead to non-favorable consequences and such.
Environment-driven motivation are those that we does not naturally possesses. It is usually forged by the societies we are in or ought to live in. Examples are our parents dream and that our negligence would be of bad impact to where we belong.
5. ENJOY and Let God.
Well most of my writings include this term “enjoy” or “enjoyment” because frankly speaking I personally believe that if you already studied your lessonᜓ, you already stressed yourselves out, and you already sacrificed both time and energy learning then its time to relax yourself. Believe what I believe or argue, our brains in times just didn’t want to do work anymore. After all was done, let God intervene and manage the exam.
P.S. If you fail it doesn’t mean you’re not worth it. No one is worthless others just have little faith.
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