(1). What should I do if I am tempt to cheat?

Don’t cheat in an exam. There’s a simple answer. You’re only fooling yourself. The likelihood is that you’ll get caught. A teacher – they call them invigilators in the examination room itself – is patrolling the examination room and there might be more than one. If you’re trying to cheat by looking at something, a piece of paper, or whatever that you’ve taken in, there’s always the temptation to look up and see if the invigilator is there. From the invigilator’s standpoint, they will note that, and you could not only be ineligible from that examination you’re sitting, but you could be not entitled from examinations for a number of years. Cheating in exams is a very, very serious thing, so don’t do it. If you’re at the point of having to cheat, then the likelihood is that you’re not going to do well on the examination at all.

(2). Everyone has answered differently to me, what should I do?

If everyone has answered differently to you, there’s nothing you can do to influence the examination paper that you’ve just taken but there’s an awful lot you can do with the one you’re about to take. Avoid your friends outside the examination room, don’t have these discussions. Go home, put the examination paper in a drawer and don’t look at it again until your own grandchildren ask to see it. It is of no importance anymore. The examiner will make a decision if you’ve done well on the examination or not. Concentrate on the next paper you’re going to take and that’s where you can make a dissimilarity.

 (3). Everyone finishes before me, what can I do?

It doesn’t matter whether everybody walks out after 1 minute; you’re there for whatever time of the test. It’s your paper that’s going to be marked, and it’s your score that you’re paying notice in, not other popular grades. You don’t be familiar with what they’ve done on the examination paper. Forget about everyone about you and concentrate on your own paper.

(4). Hearing what other people have written makes me think I have answered wrongly, what should I do?

It doesn’t mean anything. It’s your examination, and it’s your paper that’s going to be marked, so think on what you do. There are rushers and planners in examinations. Some people just go ahead without understanding the question paper properly, and they give the wrong answers to the question because they’ve not understand writing the text carefully. They write many, many notes and It doesn’t substance, it’s a load of refuse what they’re symbols. It won’t influence your examination mark finally. So think on your own paper and ignore everybody else.

When should I start revising for my exams?

You should really start revising for exams from the very beginning of your course. I don’t know how many people in fact do that, but as you go through your course you should look at past examination papers to do with the topic that you’re studying at that time. You should be keeping notes and trying to shorten them, so that they’ll be easy to go over later on. Most people don’t start revising at that stage, but surely don’t leave it too late.

How long before my exams should I work out a revision timetable?

You should have an idea about your revision timetable right from the very beginning. Most courses are for two years, and surely the last year of the course, when your examinations are coming up, you should work out a programme of how long you have, what you’ve got to cover in that time, and how you’re going to cover it. Some people make a very complicated programme.

It really depends on the person. I wasn’t of that sort; I didn’t like to make an elaborate programme. Sometime students spend so much time making out the programme, and coloring it in, et cetera, that they don’t in fact get down to studying. So, in terms of your revision timetable, you should do what suits yourself, but do make a programme. It doesn’t matter how lacking in information it is, as long as the crucial parts are there; of dates, what you’ve got to do, and the time in which you’ve got to attain it.

The key is that it will give you confidence. Once you feel that you’ve done an enough amount of the paper to start with, you’ll have confidence to go on and tackle what might be more hard questions.