A week before the examination commences,
- check your time table.
- Check the exact date, day and time of each
subject.
- Make sure of the examination venue so that
you know how to get there.
ON THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EXAMINATION
- Avoid working too late at night
- Check again the examination location, date
and time
- Try to get a good night's sleep on the
night before the examination.
- Ensure that you take pens, a sharpened
pencil, calculator, etc.
ON THE MORNING OF THE EXAMINATION
- Take light breakfast.
- Start well in time so that you can travel
and reach comfortably to the exam hall.
- Get into the room well in time to find the
seat allotted to you.
- Be comfortable and be confident.
- Do not commence writing until told to do
so.
ON RECEIPT OF THE PAPER
- First look at the paper carefully.
- Check that it is for the correct subject.
- Read the whole paper, it is not a waste of
time.
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS
- Check which questions if any, are
compulsory and look at the problems. Often these may carry more marks.
- Check how many minimum questions must be
attempted.
- Answer only the required number of
questions.
- Allocate your time to each question and its
subsections.
- Commence with the relatively easy
questions.
- Failure to follow the examiner's
requirements causes loss of marks even
though you may do a good piece of work.
- If asked for a definition stick to the
definition, do not give a detailed discourse.
- If asked to elaborate, do not restrict
yourself to defining.
- Organize your thoughts well before writing.
- Put your ideas in writing cogently. On
completion, check that you have dealt with all parts of the question and its
subsection.
- Commence each answer on a fresh page.
- Do ensure that there is some space at the
end of each question. This is useful when you read through the paper in the
final quarter hour.
- Avoid padding or repeating the answer to
fill up pages.
- On completion, read through the entire
paper. You may discover silly errors or omissions or repetitions, which can
be corrected.
- Be legible, neat and tidy. This can make
all the difference and the examiners will be impressed.
- There is no substitute for hard work.
- Avoid procrastinations.
- Be organized, disciplined and regular in
study habits.
ADVANCED TIPS
- You will know at the beginning of the paper
what you will write. There is not going to be any special brainwave during
the exam of 3 hours. So prepare a skeleton of the answer paper for the first
45 minutes, and fill it up during the remaining 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Advantage is that if you don't complete the papers, the examiner will at
least know that you knew the header.
- Leave margins on both the sides, large.
- Artificially increase the length of your
answers by writing in point wise form and leave a line in between.
- Highlight your special points.
GOLDEN RULES FOR EXAM WRITING
- Answer all parts of the required questions
- Never leave the exam hall before the end.
- Time allocation for each questions
- Proper choice of questions.
- Order of answering of questions should be
traditional i.e. 1through 5