Terrified about the methods exam!

[bec036]

I am doing practice exam after practice exam and getting nowhere there are times when I can't barely answer a single question and when I think I can it turns out wrong . I understand the majority of the coursework and I know i'm not a strong methods student receiving only 60-70% average on my SACs but I would still like to pass this exam!

I think its just I cannot figure out which method the question wants me use.. any ideas on what i can do?? Especially in the calculator/notes free exam thats a big problem for me.

Thanks

[LachyMc]

i suggest you stop doing "practice exam after practice exam" instead sitting down and nutting out how do all the questions you got wrong in one exam. Do not move onto the next exam until you understand how to answer every single question correctly.

[naved_s9994]

Theres a trick.

If you do trial exam after trial, and are not correcting or identifing the errors or concepts you are not 200% on, then they are useless, because the number or %age you are getting is just stuff you know. It's OBVIOUSLY stuff you are getting wrong you are not clear on .

A lot of people will read the solutions and understand their mistake, then move onto the next exam? It's very common, however that is useless aswell. Because after another 5 exams, they have forgotten their mistake! (So make sure you write down what you screwed in the trial on a seperate paper.)

What you should do, is take out 2 - 3 hours in the morning/afternoon, and go through your textbook. Have a scrap page next too you. Go through all the worked examples in the book. If some examples/ or some pages you see which has questions you don't understand, write the page number down. Then take a break, and after that, start hitting each page number you have listed, and work on them, to understand them, ask here, your teacher, friends etc.

By spending about 5 - 6 on that, you have IDENTIFIED ALL YOUR WEAK POINTS!

Make your bound reference around these key areas. The areas which your not sure upon.


After that, you will DEFINETLY do much better!