There is LITERALLY NOTHING WORSE than that feeling of looking at a question and going completely blank. Like you have no idea what’s going on and you start to PANIC. Let’s do a bit of unpacking and try help you avoid that feeling for good.<\/p>\n
In an exam you have one goal, and one goal only: get the most marks in the least time.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is the ONLY important thing.<\/p>\n You know that you only have a certain amount of time to do that exam, so you need to make sure you get every single mark you can in that time.<\/p>\n By doing all the easy questions first.<\/p>\n Practically what this means is that if you get stuck on a question for more than five minutes and you think you might get it wrong you should move on.<\/strong> You absolutely don’t want to waste half an hour on a tough question you might get wrong and then run out of time for easy questions you could have gotten right.<\/p>\n So when you get stuck, circle a question, move on, and come back at the end when you have time.<\/p>\n While teachers can make exam questions really hard, they can’t test you on stuff that isn’t in the syllabus.<\/p>\n So if you are looking at a question and you have no idea what’s going on you should do three things:<\/p>\n If you want to get really good at this technique, do a timed past paper. Get a sibling or parent to be an “invigilator” who makes sure you don’t look at the memo or any textbooks while you practice, and see what marks you get in the allocated time.<\/p>\n This will also help you realise which areas you need to do more practice in, and what you don’t understand. So it should help with studying and with exam technique.<\/p>\n Keep studying, don’t give up, you got this.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get some tips to help you prepare for your tests and exams so you won’t panic and can focus on doing your best. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow do I get the most most marks in the least time?<\/h3>\n
What if I still don’t understand when I come back?<\/h3>\n
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