| Getting prepared for examinations and avoiding | | | | maximize your study skills. Your study skills are an |
| distractions is the greatest challenge that a student | | | | essential part of your success when you review your |
| can face. Its amazing how the best events and the | | | | notes and think about how to apply that information on |
| most distracting friends come knocking on your door | | | | the test. |
| when youre trying to study. I always tell students that | | | | Its important to have the right attitude about your final |
| their first mistake is opening the door to let their friend | | | | examinations. It is essential that you expect to have |
| into their room. To succeed on your final exam you | | | | success on every test. Youve overcome many |
| need to set all types of limits on your distractions. | | | | challenges to get this far in your course. Find time to |
| Organize a study group. Set limits on the number of | | | | read a motivational poem, CD or book for a few |
| students or your study group can become a | | | | minutes. Call someone who frequently has given you |
| distraction too. Some students may come to your | | | | words of encouragement when you have faced |
| study group unprepared and it is up to the group to | | | | challenged. Success on your final examinations is the |
| make changes. To have success on your final | | | | result of positive thinking and hard work. |
| examination you must maintain your focus. | | | | Responding accurately to any final examination |
| Time management is an essential when you are | | | | requires attention to details. Think about the kind of |
| preparing for final examinations. Use the beginning of | | | | questions that will occur on a test. Develop some of |
| the month to outline how you will use your time. You | | | | your own questions and practice with another student |
| will need additional time to study and to get organized. | | | | who is in your class. You can practice responding and |
| If you wait to until the last minute you will be studying all | | | | thinking about the right answers to potential test |
| night on certain examinations. When you have more | | | | questions. If you have questions that need clarification, |
| time you will be able to add additional study groups if | | | | dont be afraid to meet with your instructor. You want |
| necessary. It is important to count each day as an | | | | to expand the number of questions that you are |
| opportunity to prove all that you have learned. Too | | | | prepared to answer on any test. You will have the |
| many students feel pressured during final examinations | | | | ability to feel successful because youve prepared prior |
| because they decided to manage their time too late. | | | | to each test. |
| You can change your test anxiety just by effectively | | | | In conclusion, you can position yourself for success on |
| managing your time. | | | | any final examination. Clearly define all of your |
| So how do you bring together all of the new | | | | distractions and eliminate them early. Make each |
| knowledge that you have obtained over the past few | | | | course a daily part of your discussions. Dont forget to |
| months. Youve read chapter after chapter and it | | | | find a quite place to study where you can concentrate |
| seems like a massive amount of information. It is | | | | on your subject. Its time to be confident that you will |
| important to get organized and develop a study plan | | | | have success on each final examination. Stay focused |
| that you will follow. For example develop an outline of | | | | on your goal to graduate and it will inspire you to excel |
| your chapters and write it down on paper. Its time to | | | | on every examination. |