Preparing for Tests and Exams

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Preparing for Tests and Exams

• Improving your learning through effective study
  methods and practices
• A CBNA Assisted Study Resource
• Paul Lacroix, Coordinator

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Preparing Mentally

• Take responsibility
• Make decisions about your priorities, your time,
  and your resources
• Center on your own principlesDon't let friends
  dictate whats important
• Put first things firstFollow your priorities
  and dont be distracted from them

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Find out early

• What type of test essays? multiple choice?
  fill-ins? etc.
• The date of the test
• What material it will cover?

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Preparing Materials

• Read and outline the relevant book chapters
• Take careful notes in class everyday
• Highlight outlines and notes by selecting
  important points
• Re-read highlights for understanding
• Ask for help on sections you dont understand

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Reviewing

• Read your notes through quickly
• Make a list of the main topics
• Go over each topic again more slowly noting the
  important ideas on note cards or summary sheets.
• Get help with ideas and facts you don't
  understand
• Find someone to quiz you from the lists, cards
  and summary sheets you prepared

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Preparing for Math Tests

• Do problems - Its better than reading about them
• Identify the problem types that you can't do
• Use your notes for examples if you've forgotten
  how
• Get help from your teacher on the ones you cant
  figure out
• Do more problems
• Practice with a friend - Quiz each other

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Final Preparations

• Re-read your highlighted outlines, notes, summary
  sheets and note cards
• If anything is not clear ask someone for help
• Get plenty of sleep the night before the test
• Eat something (fruit, cereal, or a sandwich)
  before the test
• Dont cram the day before the exam, you will
  recall much more if you spread your review out
  over time

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Quiz

• Before taking a test or exam you should find out
  three things. They are
• __________________________________________________
  _________________
• __________________________________________________
  _________________
• __________________________________________________
  _________________
• You should prepare your materials by
• Reading and outlining relevant _________________
  ___________
• Taking careful notes in ______________
• Outlines and notes should be highlighted to
  select _________ _________
• If you dont understand things you should
  _________ ___________ ____________
• When you review for a test or exam you should
  read through your notes and
• Make a list of the ______________ _____________
• Note the important ideas on _________ ___________
  or _________ _________
• When preparing for math tests
• Doing problems is better than __________ about
  them
• Use your __________ for examples if you've
  forgotten how
• When doing your final preparations
• __________ your highlighted outlines, notes,
  summary sheets and note cards
• If anything is not clear ________ your _________
• Get enough food and __________before the test

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Attribution

• Points extracted, in part, from
• The Worsley School Alberta, Canada
• http//www.worsleyschool.net/info/exams/examprep/e
  xamprep.html