How to survive tests!!

1. Get all test requirements ready beforehand – permits, relevant information (such as time, venue, and prospective changes in the test day), test day materials, and so on. This is to avoid all unnecessary and avoidable hassles when you are there and all prepared for your test.
2. Set your mind to never cheat. Just think about the costs of being caught, not to mention its effect on your dignity, reputation, and future.
3. Plan your personal study strategy. Set up a study area. Consider customized techniques depending on whether you can concentrate more with or without music, with things perfectly neat and organized around you or not, and such. Just make sure to make and keep with a regular schedule for your study periods.
4. Gather review materials. Sort out the most relevant ones to the less helpful ones. Get your hands-on information you think you still lack or need to know more about.
5. Have a peer review and/or join group study sessions. Discuss class lectures. Clarify lessons. Compare and share notes. Motivate each other to study.
6. Read, read, and re-read. Yes – at least three times. The first try is to familiarize yourself with the text and rule out misinterpretation; the next one is to understand your readings fully; and the last is to memorize. In fact, this is one of the rules in making your group studies successful – doing your own work in order to contribute.
7. Organize. Make your own notes. Make a reviewer for quick glance studies whenever and wherever you are.
8. Test your knowledge bank (I). Try to rewrite a copy of your original reviewer. Later see which details you have missed.
9. Test your knowledge bank (II). Try to recite your study notes from memory. No peeking!
10. Mock it. But not testing on a real copy of the test. Create your own mock test paper from your reviewer. You will be thankful for this additional review. Same process, same timing – recreate the same test venue atmosphere. Gather yourself. Imagine yourself taking in the pressure on the real test day – and succeeding in the situation.
11. Condition. Keep your health in great shape. Buffer yourself against self-inflicted nerve-wrecking and mental blocks. Adjust your habits at least one week before the test day. Get good rest, eat properly, and stay in a great mood always.
12. An exam day regimen: Dress comfortable but appropriately (if it’s not appropriate then you probably would not feel comfortable in it, right?). Finally, eating a protein-rich concentration-booster breakfast or taking a trusted prescribed memory-boosting supplement probably won’t hurt.