a noobie question

[monokekie]

heyo ppl,

Do you think its beneficial to do a lot of trial exams b4 the exam?

or do you think doing questions from the book would do?

please give advice ~

thanks in advance~!!!

[TrueTears]

A combination would be nice

[Toothpaste]

Trial exams help you pace yourself so that you're not overwhelmed when you sit for the real thing. They help build up confidence. You won't get used to the structure and layout of the exam if you just do questions from the textbook. Sometimes you'll find questions on a trial paper worded very similar to another one and it'll click right away.

Quick answer: trial exams = good. Bad if you can't do the Qs from the book though :\

But I reckon there is a point where overloading on them serves no purpose. Like if you complete thirty trials but don't bother to go back and look through errors while someone else does five papers and solidly focuses on fixing their weak points, I think the latter guy might have a better understanding of the material in the end. Point is that when you make mistakes you have to work out where you went wrong and work on it else the purpose of practicing exams is defeated.

[TonyHem]

Text book - Learning the theory, doing a bit of work.
Other resources - eg: checkpoints/exams = build on it and help prepare for exam.

[kurrymuncher]

Please dont use the textbook as exam preparation.... please..... I beg of you.

A combo of practice exams, checkpoints and Neap smart- study will make you into a machine. You will be hungry for more exam questions, and eventually destroy the exam, provided that you dont make any careless mistakes.

[/0]

Yeah, textbook is not good for exam prep, but still you won't get anything out of the exams unless you are first confident with the material in the textbook

[TrueTears]

Yeah, textbook is not good for exam prep, but still you won't get anything out of the exams unless you are first confident with the material in the textbook

I disagree, the yellow pages revision chapters for essentials contain very good exam type questions, they are very good for exam preparation.

[Gloamglozer]

Yeah, textbook is not good for exam prep, but still you won't get anything out of the exams unless you are first confident with the material in the textbook

I disagree, the yellow pages revision chapters for essentials contain very good exam type questions, they are very good for exam preparation.

I second to that.  The revision chapters at the end of every chapter contain some of the hardest extended response questions.  I find them quite useful in preparation for a SAC and I guess also the exam. 

[monokekie]

allright ! thanks guys