ACE Your Exams, Tests, & Quizzes: 34 Test-Taking Strategies By: Peter Hollins
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Get inside a test creator’s head and give them exactly what they want for top grades. How to truly excel in school.
Test performance is not really about intelligence. It’s actually about your preparation, and how well you understand how to take tests. That’s an entirely different skill in itself. So let’s teach you how to truly excel in school.
Simple tips to improve your grades and rise to the top of your class – study smarter, not harder.
ACE Your Tests, Exams, & Quizzes is an instructional guide to the thing that matters the most in academic – taking tests. It takes you through the three phrases: before, during, and after. Before is all about your preparation, during is all about how to stay calm and look at test questions differently, and after is all about your post-mortem analysis for perpetual improvement.
A holistic look at you as a student, to practically guarantee your trajectory to the top of your class.
Learn how to perform under pressure. Destroy your test anxiety and stop worrying.
Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for over a dozen years and is a bestselling author. He has worked with a multitude of individuals to unlock their potential and path towards success. His writing draws on his academic, coaching, and research experience.
Tools for essays, multiple-choice questions, and everything in between.
The most effective methods for memory, cramming, and immediate regurgitation.
How to create an exam checklist that you can use in any situation
How flow charts and mind maps can help you test better
The most important cues to look for in test questions
How to perform an exam post-mortem and how to adjust your habits
The keys to exam confidence and eliminating anxiety
Wide-range tips that cover before, during, and after the test so you can get better every single time.
It’s not fair, of course, but we our society values results, not process. This book gives you both – you get the process that will give you the best results. They are inseparable! Hands down, your grades, standing, and performance will improve, and that will give you more and more opportunities.
First and foremost, this is a book about learning, and the rest comes as a result thereof.
Helpful for tests and exams at any level – from SAT, LSAT, and GMAT to pop quizzes in history class.
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Transcript
Figure Out When to Start Studying
Let’s start at the very beginning: the planning phase. If getting a good grade on a test is your ultimate destination, then having a study plan is a road map to get there. If you’ve ever studied for tests in the past and felt like you ran out of time to fit everything in, you’ll know exactly why the most important first step is to budget how many hours you have to work with.
The truth is, you actually begin “studying for a test” from the very first day you take a class—or even before. Preparing for a test should ideally be a natural extension of the focused work you’ve been doing with that subject all along. Done right, studying is more like revising since if you’ve planned ahead, you’ll already have taken useful notes, reviewed them, done homework assignments and practice, and made summaries as you went along. The final days and weeks before a test are when you gather everything together and make sure that you’re prepared for what you’ll face on exam day.
You need to answer two basic questions:
• What do I need to cover?
• How much time do I have available?
Sounds basic, but many students find themselves in trouble because they fail to answer one or both. Be warned: answering “everything” to the first question and “as much time as I can humanly squeeze in” is a recipe for disaster! You need to be specific. To decide what you need to focus on, you may use a guide or outline given to you by your teacher, or you can consult past papers to get a feel for the scope of what you’ll be tested on and to what depth.
This first question is not just about content, though, it’s also about how you’ll be expected to show your understanding, i.e., the form your questions will take. Again, past papers will give you an insight, but you can also think about the kinds of exercises and homework you’ve practiced throughout the course. We’ll look in more detail at different study techniques in later chapters, but essentially you will be dividing up your available time on different study tasks. These tasks could be:
Reading
Making summaries of what you’ve read, e.g., mind maps
Memorizing details, e.g., making and using flashcards for key terms
Worked practice, such as with geometry or algebra problems
Completing past papers
Once you understand everything you need to cover, then you can look at how much time you have and how to budget this time strategically. For example, you may be studying for a biology exam. Based on your teacher’s guidance and the formats of previous papers, you understand you need to cover chapters four to eight. You start by making a list of all the tasks you need to complete; for example, “read through all the chapters again,” “make summarizing diagrams of processes,” and “complete practice questions at the back of the book.” Then you make an estimate of how long each of these tasks will take you—being generous!
How do you know how long you’ll need for each task? You can guess, for one. Or, you can use what you know about yourself from previous study sessions. The most accurate way, however, is to actually measure it. For example, do a test run where you read a half chapter and time how long it takes you. Then you multiply this by eight to get an estimate of the time needed to read all four chapters. It may seem like this extra step wastes time, but in fact, it ensures you don’t waste time later.
