Top 5 Tips To Survive The Exam Period
Published 30 March 2011 by Josephine Chong - Monash University Student
Top 5 tips to survive the exam period- Make sure you have a watch/mobile/laptop/alarm clock with the right time! And don’t rely on your friend’s watch. This is to make sure you get to your exam on time and not one second late. Taking an exam is stressful enough without the extra load of stress supplied by hoping you get to the venue on time.
- If you must cram, try and cram the night before and not just before the exam as you might hit the ‘overflow’ mark and then confuse yourself with prior notes.
- Make sure you get enough sleep before your exam and make sure you eat breakfast (if it’s in the morning). I know it’s hard sometimes because you’re nervous, but taking exams is also about endurance and providing fuel for your brain to be awake and ‘fully’ charged and ready to go (even if you don’t know EVERYTHING, at least you’ll be able to complete the whole exam, on not be so tired you fall asleep midway).
- Take frequent breaks whilst studying. Exercising is good as it’ll give you relief from being at the desk and help burn off some of those calories caused by excess snacking (i.e. peanut M&M’s in the bucketful!). It’ll help refresh your mind as well as keep some balance in your tight schedule.
- Always try and visualize your dream career too, and how passing your exam will help you get one step closer to that. It’s a good motivation and even if you don’t think you can pass with flying colours, at least you tried and just passing is just as good as getting HD’s when the minimum qualification for a graduate job post is a bachelor degree (employers aren’t nit-picky that you got 54% on one exam paper at the end of the day). So try not to think it’s the end of the world when you face that dreaded exam.
Remember, you can be still be successful no matter the outcome of the exam – Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook) never finished his university degree and is now the world’s youngest billionaire! So keep positive and let live, even through exam period. Good Luck and God speed!