There are some tips for the students:
In spite of good preparation and practice, students not able to perform well or give their 100%. There are some points to remember before and in the CBSE Board examination.
- Read the board question paper: Don’t start your paper just after receiving it, first read it carefully, give little time.
- Random or Sequence: Some students attempts paper serial wise, its good but if you don’t know a particular question don’t attempt it and mark that one with it as un attempted. It is advised to attempt only those in which you are more confident. This will not only save your time but also make you confident and minimize your stress as well.
- There would be some students who are still not feeling confident; those students are advised to try to find out the main root of your problem before the examination. Why are you not confident and try to solve that?
- In case of too much stress the best and simple solution is to shut down your eyes and take deep breaths.
- Don’t waste your time in solving repeated questions and use your time effectively.
- Try to take balanced diet and avoid unhealthy food.
- Those who are already tense and in taking too much stress should not cut down their sleep.
- As healthy Body = healthy mind
- Don’t fear: don’t fear with exams rather, board exams are not different; these are just like your school exams. Just do your best and don’t worry for your results. Prepare for the next without worrying for the past one.
- Exercises and yoga: there are some yoga exercises for those who are tense and taking stress. Students should practice these yoga exercises to deal with this problem.
- Check your Examination material: before leaving for the exam check for all your important things like pen, pencil, board roll number etc.
- Planning: proper planning is required for the board examination to score 100%. So plane it before the examination.
"By now you should be done with the syllabus, and have had revised each chapter -- however, it is understandable if you still do not feel confident enough. This is a typical situation that most of tenth graders face during the last months of their academic year. At this point, it is very important to analyze the real cause of this ill feeling and root it out before you sit for your board examinations."
Let us analyze the situation and see how you can overcome it.
The three possible reasons are:
- When your peers discuss a question with you and their answer is not quite convincing to you.
- When you try to solve some problem and suddenly realize that you are not able to do it.
- When your teacher initiates a discussion on a topic which you know very well and you suddenly discover that there is much more to it than what you know.
So what's the REAL problem?
"In all these situations, the real problem is that although you have assimilated the knowledge, you don't know how to use that knowledge to your advantage. This could, most probably, be due to lack of in-depth understanding of the concept."
"The problem arises when you read through the concepts to gain maximum knowledge about the concept and the knowledge you could actually gain is just superficial. To reinforce knowledge and to understand it correctly and completely, you need to practice by solving the right kind of questions."
The Solution: Choosing the RIGHT Questions
"Now that we know the underlying problem and its solution, the next job is to ensure that the questions identified by you are the right ones. In fact, there are three sources from where you can get the 'right kind of questions'."
(a) The NCERT textbook
"The NCERT textbook contains certain understanding-based questions after every concept dealt with in the book. Basically, the book has been structured in a way that ensures step-by-step learning and assessment of the sub-topics rather than focusing on overall understanding of the topic."
Try to solve these questions on your own and get your answers checked by an expert. Identify the questions that you have got wrong and revise the relevant concept before you attempt them again.
(b) Question bank
A question bank indexed topic-wise or concept-wise can help serve your purpose. Go to a good bookshop and browse through the question banks available. Choose a book that presents the questions concept-wise. Consider the listed question as a mini test on the concept and take it. Get your answers checked by an expert. Look for the concepts you are weak at and work on them.
(c) Online resources
"Although presented in a structured way, the NCERT questions are not comprehensive and very probing. You can only identify the larger chinks in your preparation from it. The types of questions in the question bank may not be application and understanding-oriented."
Another difficulty is that it may not be easy to get your answers evaluated by somebody every single time. This is where online resources like www.tcyonline.com can give you an edge. The tests appearing on www.tcyonline.com are free and evaluation is done at a more advanced platform than that provided by any other available online sources. The main advantage of the tests available on the web site is that they are completely NCERT-based and are very detailed.
"The tests are designed to identify even the minutest chinks in your preparation. A detailed advisory, pinpointing the areas that you need to focus is automatically generated at the end of the test."
"Identifying the chinks in your preparation is just the first step but perhaps the most important one towards a perfect score. It is equally important that you fill in these chinks with the help of your teachers, peers and adequate practice material including your text book."
Tips begin: I :Preparation:
1. Plan Ahead
- Before you do any work, sit down and plan what you are going to do between now and exams. It is often a good idea to revise the areas you find most difficult first , get the m out of your way and build confidence in the subject. Creating a timetable is always useful, as your time now is precious, so make it work for you. If you cannot plan for yourself get the help of your parents, teachers, or peers to do it for you. Starting early will give you the stress free approach.
2. Make summary Reports.
- Gather all your material for the topic area, reduce them into brief clear notes. Then summarise those, then again and again until you need only keywords to remember the whole topic. You can carry around the sheet wherever you go. An effective way to make sure you remember certain difficult things in order is invent some mnemonics ,for example VIBGYOR.
- Understand how your memory works. Some of us are better at remembering things than others. However, here is a trick that should help.
- "If you learn something new, in general it will already start fading in your memory after a few hours (about 90 % lost within the first 24 hours ) unless it is exciting. However, if you revise it again within the next four hours, it will take 24 hours before it stats fading. Revise again within the 24 hours period, it will lost for 4 days, then one and half weeks, then one month and so on.
- By setting this revision schedule to make the most of this (learn something, revise it again in the next couple of days and so on )you will be using your memory to your advantage.
3. Put aside specific hours in days for revision.
- If you set aside the hours in the day you are going to revise, and let everyone know what these are , you can make sure you are not disturbed. You can get into a revision pattern where your mind expects to be revising and it is therefore receptible to the material.
4. Try not to revise more than two subjects a day.
- Don’t think you need to revise a whole topic at one go Going back the next day to finish revising the topic will renew your knowledge as well as keeping a fresh memory and hopefully help you retain the information longer.
5. Menu: Eat properly.
- While you are using up energy for revising, it is important that you eat properly so that your body and mind are fit and ready for the exam. Milk, nuts high protein and bananas are good sources of energy. Avoid heavy food.
6. Take lot of breaks:
- Your mind will only be able to concentrate well for a short periods of time , the first 15 minutes are supposed the best time. Make sure you stop for a few minutes ,every 30 minutes or so. During your break good things to do is to sit back for a few minutes, close your eyes, relax, just think about what you have just learnt.
7. Use Diagrams.
- Visual stimulus is very important when trying to stay focused on your studies. Colourful pictures and writing will help you stay motivated to learn and also keep the material in your mind for longer.
8. Test yourself.
- Take a test for yourself or ask someone administer one for you. If you cannot answer any of the questions note the topic down, so you can re learn it afterwards. Practice self assessment test and mock test to develop speed ,self confidence, and time management.
- Revise for ‘yourself not for other’s sake’
- You will probably have your friends boasting about how little revision they did last night, do not lose heart and have fears of being swat in the class .In fact however your friends are probably working, just as hard as you . In any case you know how much you know ,how much you need to revise, so just do it and don’t bother about the people around.
- Don’t think you need to revise a whole topic on one go. Going back the next day to finish revise the topic will renew your knowledge as well as keeping a fresh mind and hopefully help you retain the information for longer time.
9. Try to sleep well.
10. Don’t do any laborious work the evening before your exams.
11. Get up in a relaxed form of mind on the days of examinations, browse through key words which you have prepared during your revision time.
12. At the time of leaving for examinations, check you have taken all the necessary things and your hall ticket
13. Reach the examination hall well in advance.
14. Relax and avoid distractions.
