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Staying Calm in Exams
roshanajabbour:
--- Quote from: lysscass on October 11, 2016, 06:42:18 pm ---thanks for the tips, it's nice to be reminded to stay calm with only a few days to go.
just an english specific tip for others that may have the same issue i often do: i find that if i stress too much in english, i'll blank on my quotes for my essays. in half yearlys and trials i found that if a quote popped into my head whilst i was writing but wasn't the right quote for that part of the essay, i'd jot down one word so that if i blank on it later, it's right there and i can continue without the stress building too much. not sure if this is helpful to anyone, but even if it only helps one person relax a little more this week then i'll be glad :)
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I find myself doing the same thing!
However, at the beginning of an exam i also reread and say my quotes out loud and then as soon as the exam starts, i jot those quotes down in pencil on the writing booklet.
Once i have those quotes down, the rest just flows out.
elysepopplewell:
--- Quote from: roshanajabbour on October 11, 2016, 06:33:28 pm ---A few people who have completed their HSC have told me that the stress subsides a little following the English exams as they are the first and most nerve-racking!
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I have friends who said that paper one going well lead them to be confident in all of the others, and I have friends who said screwing up paper one meant that they were more determined for the other exams to do well! So English will be the most nerve wracking time, and it fades :)
heids:
For subjects with short answer (basically everything except English and humanities with long essays) I boosted my confidence and calmness mid exams by celebrating every mark I 'knew' I'd get!
Starting on the easiest marks, I would write an answer or even part of an answer and deliver an excited mental commentary for each mark I knew I'd successfully caught: 'And one more mark bites the dust! That's one mark the assessors just have to give me, one mark down, one less question I have to answer!!!!!!'
Just taking it one bite at a time, and celebrating each successful bite, really helped. Even in the Englishes/humanities you can do that to some extent as you match up with criteria you're supposed to be appropriately addressing.
Lachlan Morley:
Hi everyone, does anyone have ay tips for when in exams and you come across for instance short answers or an extended response you know nothing about, any ideas about how to make the most of this situation and get the most marks possible
pughg16:
--- Quote from: Lachlan Morley on October 19, 2016, 09:29:49 pm ---Hi everyone, does anyone have ay tips for when in exams and you come across for instance short answers or an extended response you know nothing about, any ideas about how to make the most of this situation and get the most marks possible
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Personally, I think a lot of the time when I say 'I know nothing about...' I'm just being paranoid.
BOSTES is limited to the syllabus content as to what they can ask, so there is a high chance that you will know something ;)
If however, you are really stuck, I often find it helps me to just think for a minute on all the content I've learnt, and then decide on what aspect is most suited to the question.
This probably isn't quite what you mean, but the Personalities question today really threw me. Then I realised that actually, the question is just wanting to know about the conflicting opinions regarding Albert Speer, and why historians tend to interpret Speer's actions the way they do, and why they have that particular opinion, which is fairly similar to a lot of other Speer questions.
Don't get me wrong though, I really bombed out on this question at the time!! :-[
But if you do panic, I recommend just pausing for a moment, and thinking through your content, and you will find that you do have something to say, and if you word it confidently, like you know what you are saying, I think you will reap a fair few marks, probably more that you originally think!
But good luck, I'm sure you will be just fine! :D
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