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Testing, Tests, and how to do well in class:
Let me preface here by telling you all that I just finished our English Midterm at Houston Baptist University. Nothing too hard, just a 20 question test with an inclass essay. I only wrote four paragraphs but it took three pages and I have never lost points for only writing 4 paragraphs. So here's the tip:
1. Studying is important but not as much as sleep. If you have studied enough, don't cram before the test to get a better grade. Get to bed early and wake up well before the test, then cover your most important points again.
2. EAT DANGIT!!! Washu's personal test plan for success states: "Eat a hearty breakfast, before the test, with the right ballance of carbohydrates and protein. The carbs will give you a quick burst of energy to start your test and the protein will kick in later to give you some staying power!"
3. Arrive early. Nothing hurts your test score more than losing 15 minutes of test time to tardyness. Unless you want to count arriving 30 minutes late.
4. Always make sure you have every thing you need for the test. Find out from your professor/teacher what you need and make a check list (mentally or physically, it depends on your memory). Trust me, you will bomb a physics test badly if a substantial number of problems involve square roots. Come on, no one knows the square root of 13.75 (m^2/s^2).
5. Study. Study early and seriously. Make sure you think critically about each point you need for the test. Make note cards or flash cards or cover your notes with stickeys. Take detailed notes in class of the major and minor points of the lecture and copy examples from the black board. Most importantly, make sure you read your notes often, homework alone WILL NOT prepare you for the FINAL!!! And Last but not least, never try to copy verbatim all the teacher says. Unless you are a stenographer, you cannot do it. Reading your notes is vary benificial to your memory retention and talking about your subject with somone else helps even more. There was a study done on lecture students that found that if they explained what they learned, in their own words, to anything, their retention was boosted by a whopping 30%!! That means that If you do that three times, you should retain 90% of the material covered in the lecture!!! Note this: only about 35% of the class makes it into the test but it is random, the more you retain, the better chance you will get an A.
Now, I chalenge you all to follow this advice and go get some A's!!
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