Here's a better way: *DONT* micromanage your entire exam with thinking how much time you're gonna spend on each question for every question, and just do the exam as normal, skipping the questions you're not prepared for
And instead of skipping questions you don’t know maybe you can draw a monkey so when your teacher marks the exam, he might be like ‘mmmmm ✨ Monkey ✨’ and maybe he might get mark?
wOw gUyS 31 lIkEs- jk for clarification, this only happens in certain scenarios. most of the time, the teachers say to skip it and then *come back to it.*
@@aslan7924 sometimes we do timings in my school and its where we have to do stuff in a certain amount of time. we’re allowed to skip, though they count as errors.
@@CWus-3 You would still end up spending time reading the questions to see how much time to allocate. A better option is to go through each question in turn, if you know the answer, do it right away, if not, move on to the next question. Then go over those you weren't sure of at the end.
@Oggy But then I would have to spend 10 minutes thinking how much time I want to spend thinking how much time I want to spend thinking how much time I want to spend.
@@Sushmas888 This needs context as to why the duck is dead: Why do ducks have wet feet? To stamp out fires. Why do elephants have flat feet? To stamp out burning ducks.
I'm maths I start from the back, going backwards until TIME reaches halfway (tackle the harder more marks questions) then I move to the front and start there till i finish (completing the easy low mark questions)
I usually do the first 10 or so questions. Then when I get bored with those or hit a hard question, I jump to the last question and work backwards from there until I reach the point where I left off. I have terrible memory so if it’s online and I go to do the next question and then I realize I’m done it’s a nice little surprise.
same lmao, one time I restated a bunch of questions and ended up not answering them because I thought I did them already/double checked them… I got a B-.
omg finally someone who does the same thing as me. one time i did the first few questions of my worksheet and went to the back after i hit a hard question. my teacher asked me why so many questions were left blank but the ones at the end were answered. i didn’t know what to say haha
This is one advantage of exams here in the U.K. We tend to have very little multiple choice questions, but each question is worth a certain number of marks (e.g. 4 mark explain question). The rule that the exam boards and teachers follow on how much time to give you is 1 mark = 1 minute, so if your paper was worth 30 marks, then you’d get 30 minutes.
@Dr.MemeDaddy it means before the exam even starts you already know how much time to spend on each question. For example, for The GCSE Edexcel B Geography course, there are three papers. For papers 1 and 2, there are 90 marks and 90 minutes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean 1 mark per minute because some questions take a few seconds to answer (short answer). That means, as long as you know your exam techniques well and how to answer the questions, you can do those short answer questions very quickly. This you should focus on the longest question, the 3 8-markers at the back which should take around 10-12 minutes each to do.
Our schools do give more time like 2 mins for 1 mark questions, but my coaching teacher told me to follow this rule so that you never run out of time and can review answers.
I literally repeat the questions and answers in my head like a million times and then start thinking about movies. On average, I'm able to finish 60% of the test and guess on the rest
How long does your exams are held? If you have like an hour to answer and you manage to repeat the question and answers on your head for a million times then you must have the ability to process information like a super computer
I look through the exam paper quickly to see what the questions are like, and do the easy questions first. While I’m doing the easy questions, in the back of my mind I’m thinking about how to tackle the more challenging questions later
Tips which has always helped me: • Don't waste your time on the questions you don't know the answer just skip it and leave for the later and when you're done you can look to those questions • Don't waste your time on helping others • When it's a maths exam so you should always start from the back for example if you have 20 questions so do the 20th question first because mostly they give the hard ones in last which consume a little more time and they are of more marks. I hope it helps! ;)
here's a tip: if all questions have the same marks, go from easiest to hardest, bc, for example, lets suppose an easy question takes you 3 minutes and a hard one takes 10, so if you only have an hour to do a test with 10 easy and 10 hard, going from easy to hard makes you 13/20, and hard to easy only 6/20
I never run out of time during a test before. The trick in passing the exam without cramming for the test is to just listen and be attentive in class, generally just enjoy class. You might not get the highest score/grade because you don't put much effort studying but you won't be having trouble on exam and avoid failing too
Another tip: When exam starts, DO NOT open your paper. You should flip to the back where you can find a blank page, and just scribble down everything you can remember and then just do the questions. Reason: If you start the exam just looking at the questions and answering them, your brain will not be able to remember the answer since a lot of knowledge is flowing through your brain, and if you scribbled down everything at the back first, then your brain won’t be filled with a lot of stuff since your wrote it all down, so you won’t suddenly stop and think of the answer to a question as you can just copy it from behind. P.S. This saved my History grade. *Disclaimer* I got this tip from FayeFilms, she’s a student in University of Melbourne.
@@drip2007 oh I’m Asian so it’s not western exams, also I’m pretty sure they mean what u write on the question paper won’t be graded? or u can’t write a single word at all on the question paper?
@@blazeury it's actually not allowed to even write or scribble or solve anything on the question paper except your name or ticking/crossing the questions you've attempted/left But I still note my answers on the paper at the last moment lol
Something that helped me with the last test I took was starting on the last or most amount of point question and once I got stuck and didn’t know what to do, I would go into the test and do two or three other, easier, problems. This helped give me time to think and some different problems to look back on without my mind just blankly staring at the paper. This especially helps if you didn’t study, which I didn’t do.
Here's some tips for y'all 1. First and foremost, Review before the exam (either one to two hours before the test or even last minute) 2. Try asking the teacher what is the pointers to review 3. On the test, answer the question you know first 4. When choosing an answer look for what is different from other or what is more familiar too you 5. Use the cancelation method (cancel the choises that is less likely to be the answer so you can narrow down the choices then use the 4th tip) 6. When reviewing, don't memorize the whole definition of a term. Memorize or made a connection to a certain keyword that is unique for that term
"dont jump in without not knowing what the questions are" my teachers giving us a test based on 2 years ago while not giving us any context but just showing up and winging it: :((
Also don't spend ages staring and pondering at a question. Star it, move on and come back later. You'll be surprised how much comes back to you. You'll have a clearer mind and also be less stressed because you've pretty much finished the test and have plenty of time to spare filling in blank answers and correcting mistakes. Bonus Tip: at the start of any test, flip to the back and write down anything you on your short-term memory that you need to remember but could forget during the test. For example, in my maths test I flipped to the back and jotted down the CAST diagram, sinx + cosx = 1, sin2x/cos2x = tan2x and finally the formula for the volume of a cylinder. This made taking the test sooooooo much easier because I wasn't trying to remember those formulas throughout the whole test ad when I came to questions where I needed those formulas I spent no time pondering or trying to remember, I just quickly copied down the formula I needed and got to work, finishing those questions in seconds opposed to 5 minutes.
Everyone having actual strategizes for finishing their exams fast and I’m just over here doing the exam start to finish without stopping, checking, double checking, sketching my entire hand because I’m bored then triple checking it and still having time left over 😭
I always finish with about half the time remaining. That’s not because I aced the test, it’s because I aced everything I know and the stuff I don’t know I never get in the entire 1 hour I have to spare.
I already do this. I do the multiple choice questions first, then predict what time I will get done. I usually finish before the expected time. If so, I just relax and let myself think clearly about the response answers.
Sir, I will give my boards this year. But there is a huge change of question patter because of the pandemic. (MCQs with 4option) We have to attept 50 questions out of 60, each carrying 0.8 marks in 90 Mins. It's very difficult for me to solve the question paper in time ( specialy for maths & physics) May I please gets some tips for this kind of question paper .
Always learned to read every question before hand. Some teachers would hide stuff in the test that made you go back to previous questions or answers could be told from the questions of others. Usually in language classes or science.
Yesterday I had a test, and I fully messed up because I followed this technique, because as my test had 4 segments and I was weak at physics, I left it for last but I ended up getting a tough questions in botany as well as chemistry, but physics was a bit easy but still couldn't do it beacuse of time shortage At the end what I wanted to tell you guys is that , please don't just watch YT video and use that technique rather take some special time before your exam and just create your own strategy and follow it wisely
how did this mess you up? dont you have a reading period before starting? the vid said to do the questions that are easier first and the ones that are harder later
i usually just go from last to first, that is, i go from hard to easy since that way i wouldn't have to worry thinking about what i'm gonna do for the hard questions coz i'm already facing it y'know. and honestly, it works out pretty well. but do keep in mind that it is necessary for you to kind of make a quick time allotment or you'll end up wasting much of your time on just one question. that happened to me quite recently actually. i was writing my english exam and i was following my usual technique (last to first) but i spent too much time on just one question (it's not bcoz i didn't know the answer or sumthin, it's bcoz i had lots of points to write that i just ended up taking too much time on that) which messed it up for all the other questions. i was able to complete all the hard questions but it was the one mark questions where i lagged. eventually, i had to leave a whole lot of one mark questions since time was running out. oh and also, *read* your paper first. and if you can, just try to note down the answers in your mind.
@@hermione9030 I guess it really depends on the subject/test. Multiple choice tests, even if they are stimulus based are usually where you know the answer immediately or you don't and hard questions are usually far between and it won't be a huge deal if you get a few wrong. Math is one that is usually best done linear, because questions are usually grouped, however if you don't know a particular concept its best to do it last. Your strategy is great for English, but it depends on how it is grouped
If you're provided the exam pattern, it's better to manage time before hand. Also practice previous question papers and analyse your weaknesses and strengths, and how much time you need to spend on specific question types.
In my syllabus, the max amount of time you spend in 1 question is defined by the amount of marks that question has. For example, if its a 2 mark question, you know that you shouldn't spend more than 2 mins on it and that you have to write down 2 points. Simple, and gives you track of your time management.
i tried this in high school but haven’t the easy questions sprinkled in with hard ones gave me a boost of hope of passing. without that hope i get frustrated and burnt out.
My teacher says.. When I was younger this boy would always finish a test before me but he would always get everything wrong and I was always the last to finish but I got everything right so don’t compare your understanding and learning speed to your classmates
