Examination tips for A’Level and O'Level Candidates

by Saria Ahmed    December 28, 2008

Hit again with the Exam hurricane? Well don’t get blown off towards the Exam halls until you make sure you carry out the following.

Before the storm:

1. Take a marker and sit down with your timetable schedule. Mark all the days and venues of examinations carefully checking and re-checking with your candidate number.
2. Next, take out a piece of paper and note down the dates your exams will take place and the venues and stick it up in front of your desk. This is a just a routine procedure which will ensure you not forgetting any date.
3. A week before each exam, make sure you prep yourself. Time yourself and give self-mock exams to make sure that you can finish in time when E-Day arrives.
4. Spend the last weeks on daily mocks and light revision. Watch less television and eat healthy. Don’t work yourself up over the upcoming exam.
5. The night before each examination, make sure you have your passport and statement of entry. Also check that you have at least three pens of the same color, ruler, eraser, pencil, sharpener and calculator. For some exams you might even need a geometry box or a set of color pencils. Ensure you have all of these.
6. Spend the mornings of the exams with a cool shower and a healthy breakfast of proteins. Drink lots of water.

Whilst the storm has hit:

1. Fill out all the information needed on the top pages of the exam papers.
2. Read the question paper carefully at first, along with the instructions on the front pages.
3. If the answers are to be answered on the question papers, at first do the ones which you think you can do very easily. If you cannot do one, move on to the next one instead of pondering and wasting time on it. When you finish, return to the ones you had left and take your time and do them. You can perform your mathematical calculations and other rough works in pencil and later rewrite with a pen, but it is advisable not to waste time rewriting. Try to write the correct answers at the very first go.
4. If in a dilemma, feel free to ask the invigilators for help.
5. After you finish the whole paper, revise it step by step.
6. Check for spelling and grammatical errors, and again ensure whether you wrote your name and candidate number in the appropriate places.

To all the candidates out there who are/ will be sitting for their exams – Good Luck, and when your exams will be over say, Good Riddance!

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