Exam Success Tips for Excellent Results

By Caesar Peraza

Examination success is closely related to study attitudes, good use of time, and the right techniques to tackle exam questions. Exam Success Tips for Excellent Results equips you with tips and ideas about studying and tackling exams successfully. It is a book that puts you on a successful career track!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Strathmore University Press
• Release date: Oct 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005524975

Caesar Peraza

A Forestry Engineer by profession, Caesar Peraza has worked in various educational and management positions of Strathmore Educational Trust. He has taught science subjects in Strathmore School and Management Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, and Ethics in Strathmore College School of Accountancy.Caesar Peraza has been actively involved in counselling secondary school and accountancy students. He has also given workshops on study skills. The ideas contained in this book are taken from his first-hand teaching and counselling experience.

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Exam Success Tips for Excellent Results

Copyright 2021 Caesar Peraza

ISBN: 9781005524975

Published by Strathmore University Press at Smashwords

Proofread and edited by Adrian Nyiha

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Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Guidance in Study

Importance and purpose of study

II. What Does Study Require?

Intelligence

Motivation

To start

Esteem

Quiet

Detachment

Perseverance

Self-discipline

Patience

Self-knowledge

Order

Attention

Optimism

III. Study Skills

Managing time

Timetable

IV. Environmental Factors Which Affect Study

Place

Ventilation

Illumination

Table and chair

Internal state

V. Basic Study Skills

Writing

Quality of content

Reading

Reading to learn

Memory

The forgetting effect

Taking notes

Writing essays

VI. Study Methods For Particular Subjects

Analysis

Synthesis

Reading and studying

Summaries and outlines

SQRRR

Revision plans

VII. Examinations

Tips to gain marks

Examination marks

During the examination

Essay-type questions

After the examination

About the Author

Connect with Caesar Peraza

Introduction

Study is the application of our mental faculties to acquire knowledge. In order to do this we first need to understand what we are studying and then organize it in our mind.

W.A. Kelly (cf. Kelly W A: Psychology of Education, Madrid, 1964, pp 304-308) says that the purpose of study is to acquire facts and information, different ways of thinking, dominion of abilities and specific techniques through which we are able to organize and express our knowledge.

Study is, therefore, a process of the intelligence through which we acquire universal ideas, that is, ideas which can be applied to different cases, such as the laws of Physics, Chemistry or Economics. The consequence is that study allows us to apply those general laws or ideas to practical aspects, such as making a car, soap or money.

Study is both a work of the intelligence and of the .will. Our intelligence seeks the truth: we have a natural desire to know what happens inside our bodies, to find out what provoked the Second World War, or to know why animals behave in a particular way. Our will, on the other hand, wants good things, although to acquire them may demand an effort. We study because we see it is good for us, because to acquire knowledge is good, because many good things will come out of it, not only in terms of money, career, profession, etc. but also in personal terms: through study we improve our personality, we develop our potential. Intelligence and will are related. Although we may see with our intelligence that to study is good, this is not enough; the will has to act and say: I want to study. On the other hand, although someone may want to study a particular subject, he may not have the ability to do so.

In any case, there is no magic formula to pass examinations or to learn, but work. We know that even the most brilliant person has to undertake a minimum amount of study.

Chapter I: Guidance in Study

Education experts have pointed out that deterioration in school work is a common problem when children reach adolescence. Although not all students are affected to the same extent, they have pointed out the following reasons for this deterioration:

* students may be lacking the basic understanding of some subjects

* their study methods may not have been good

* education at primary level may have been deficient

* teenage crisis may have affected them deeply

* the study atmosphere at home and in school may not have been conducive to learning.

Some of the above points are explained in the following pages.