 Don’t limit yourselves to only a few basic text books
 Consult magazines, newspapers, the internet, television, radios, and all other sources – to have all-round, wholesome knowledge
 Acquire more than you need. Eg., A runner preparing for a 100m dash should run a mile a day.
 The people around us are vital to how well we prepare for exam eg., parents, teachers, other mentors/role models, you aspire to be like.
 Commitment to your work dedication to your dream.
 Love libraries, bookshop place where people in the profession of your dreams practice and the last but not the least, your staff room eg: when you aspire to be a lawyer you must visit courts of law and lawyer’s chambers
 Avoid stress – for this prepare relax and have confidence
 Go for questions you are sure of
 have deep breath for overcoming panic
 Visualise yourself in positive and relaxing situation
 Do not site up the night before nor revise too far in advance
 Have adequate amount of sleep before the exam day
 allow enough time to organize and equipment you need and to travel fomfortable to where the exam is to take place
 you should know the exam pattern
 For each exam you should find out
 Number of questions that may appear with exam
 What can you expect the questions to be about
 To answer whether in short answers or multiple choice
 Duration of exam
 Go through the hand books on the exam you intend to take; because they may contain advice how to get the best results
 Past questions papers should be gone through to get an idea about the substance, the examiners are looking for
 If any classes are available for a particular exam, participate in it because the lecture in that class may give you a breakthrough too understanding the actual nature of exam
 Instead of hearing lots of new materials, concentrate on what you have already known/ read and revise them
 Study regularly and avoid wide gaps
 Observe the time of day you work best (ie) study in the morning before you have washed or had breakfast
 Stop work every hour for a break. Get up walk around and have a cup or something you like
 Practice writing answers for the past exam questions you can set your own exam.
 listen to the invigilator
 Relax and read the instructions on the exam paper.
 Read the questions carefully on the assumption that ones you prepared are there but worded differently.
 Identify first the questions you think you will answer
 Use the time give sensibly
 If you run out of time one question, it is usually best to go on to the next question
 if you have left a question unfinished, you have to find the time to comeback to it.
 In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be severe, slow pulsed and calm – “Robert Green Ingersoll”
 There is well known phenomenon in psychology – known as state dependant memory. The state you are in determines what you can remember. If you are in a very different state to when you learning it is hard to recall things.
 Don’t be anxious, your brain is simply in the wrong state for thinking.
 Stop the self defecting thoughts. Remind yourself that it is not you as a person that is being judged – only a few questions and these are not being judged by Gods
 Imagine the examiner as your friend or as someone who knows very little about the subject