How to prepare for exams

Exam is an abbreviation for Examination, which is a formal test involving answering written or oral questions with no or limited access to test books or the like.

For me I’ll simply say, Exam is a step you need to climb to take you to the next level or next phase in life.
Many people see exams as a very scary that sometimes some even take ill when they are about to write an exam… lol.

So here are some tips on how to prepare for an exam so it turns out less complex to you:
1. Prepare ahead of time; preparation is key. Don’t wait for the dying moment before you start to read, except you have an extraordinary IQ,  (IQ abbreviation for intelligent quotient, which is a number representing a person’s reasoning ability as compared to the statistical norm for their age) if you fail to prepare in some course… sorry to say this, you will fail woefully. And that leads us to (2)
2. Do not cram it all, read to understand to some level at least. It happened to me once, I waited to a night before a physics to test to prepare, so I ended up cramming, when I got to the hall the test papers where shared, I knew the answers to every question on the paper… cool right? I picked my pen and started to write, I was writing till I stumbled on a line of what I was writing and that was the end, I forgot it all, the more I tried to remember the more I forgot, till I realized I was blank.
3. So how do you go about the preparation? Create a personal timetable for yourself for reading and also arrange all your schedules in it so one doesn’t affect the order.
4.  Find out what works out best for you; everyone isn’t the same, what will work for A might or not work for B and C. if you need to read in a quiet environment, do so, if you need music to read, do so, just don’t read the way your friend is reading because you want to read with your friend, except it suits you. Just do what you are comfortable with.
5. Start to read from the beginning of a semester or term. Take 3 to 4 hours a day to read. Before you know it you would have covered the whole course work even before any pre exam test
6. Prepare for tests as you would for exams they add up to your exam scores.
7. Never allow a person make you believe you would fail a course. Prepare for every tough course as you would do for others, do not give up. Just assign more time to the course.
8. Don’t over stress your brain; after you have read for a while drop your books do other things, you can meditate. Do not over do things, because you might crash i.e end up falling sick during the exams and you might not be able to write the exams you prepared day and night for and that is a huge collateral damage. 9. Lastly before going for an exam always try to eat something, so you don’t feel hungry when you see a tough question, at that point you should be thinking of ways to answer the question and writing on your booklet rather than types of food.

And let me leave you with this quote;
“I learned this at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to leave the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” –Henry David Thoreau