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College & University InformationBeat Your Examiners with Examination Techniques
by:
Ian McAllister
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Are examination techniques better than knowledge?
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Half a century ago I knowing simply about examination techniques. At that time I was snowed under with study, and my schoolmaster aforesaid that I had as more chance as the Man in the Moon of passing three Ordinary level GCE subjects.
He was right at that time! It didn't matter how more study I did, term examination questions were always simply about stuff I hadn't studied.
Then I knowing that you perform better in an examination if you cognize more simply about exams rather than simply about the subject of the exam.
I likeable
that.
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Using Examination Techniques
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So I studied examination techniques. What were the results? I passed eleven GCE ordinary level subjects.
When artistic talent was bimanual out, my brother got it all, and there was none left for me. I panic every time I am asked to do a stick-drawing.
However in the GCE exam, my brother set out to do nice art, and I used examination techniques to get nice marks. To my great glee I got a better pass mark than my brother did. I was sure that established that exams are unfair, but remained really smug.
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Multiple Select
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My married woman had a multiple-choice paper on a subject simply about which I knew nothing. I tried the examination techniques in my book. My married woman assured me that I would-be have passed - without knowing thing
simply about it.
Then came a time that I studied mathematics again, and I was dispiritedly
at sea. I knowing mathematics wherever
the better methods were those that worked - fast. New mathematics had been introduced since I was at college. Now the explanations were simply nonsense to me. However once
the examination came around, it was another multiple select test, and I passed!
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We've knowing nothing
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My daughter's final exams were coming. I searched libraries for the most modern examination techniques, and received a great shock. All the books still advised lots of hard work. There was no mention of examination techniques at all.
They mentioned mnemotechnic techniques to help me remember, but I'd been exploitation them since the middle of last century and knew how they could let me down.
The day before a university examination I distinct that I would-be probably get a question simply about the life cycle of Genus fasciola hepatica. So I used a mnemotechnic technique to memorize every number in the complex
life cycle.
Next day the expected question appeared, and I remembered every number - BUT - I had forgotten the units. It was no use memory the number 3 if I didn't cognize if it was three hours, or three days, or three weeks, or three months, or three years. So I couldn't answer the question. Fortuitously examination techniques got me through the exam.
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Birth of Examination Mastery
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I wrote a book simply about how to pass exams to help my daughter. Unluckily she thought that she knew everything... and didn't bother to see the book... and failing her exams. Recently I updated the book to take the computer network into account.
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The arithmetic of success
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Suppose you're taking an essay examination with five questions. You cognize you can give nice answers for three questions, but think that you cognize nothing simply about the rest. I've seen students walk out of essay exams in that situation - they hadn't studied examination technique.
Your teacher has brainwashed you by arduous anybody who wrote a three line essay for homework. But two essays of three lines each could take you from failure to a pass mark. My book shows what to put into these few lines, but think of the arithmetic.
You got 45 marks out of 60 for your three nice questions. The pass mark is 47%. You get one mark out of 20 for each of the remaining two answers. You have a pass mark. That is better than walking out of the examination in a panic - isn't it?
In fact I normally got simply about 75% by exploitation examination techniques. Oh, they aren't magic. I failing an occasional exam, but I passed galore exams that I didn't merit to pass, especially exploitation cunning essays.
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