There is a science known as examinology and I shall take the credit for pioneering it! LOL.
So it's exam season once again; time to show that you sponged up all the information, did your research and can put pen to paper to produce mastery despite the limits of time.
There is a method to this madness known as exams and although their intents and purposes are to drive innocent students to insanity, I have always maintained my cool. So what if I want to keep it a secret that I am literally shitting in my drawers? But there are some sure fire ways of "sawting out di ting!"
1. Get there early. Who the hell wants to be wiping beads of sweat in a frantic race to find a seat and get settled. Can you imagine if your pen just decides to take the day off? U luddy. Get there early, get your things ready and laywait the invigilators to say "OK you may enter the exam hall!" amidst wiping off THEIR beads of sweat!
2. Test the seats. So yes you want to be really comfortable. Try out the desks and chairs. After all you are early so you have the time. If you are pleasantly plump, beefy, burly, buxom, chunky, corpulent, fleshy, full, obese (I don't like this one!), portly, pudgy, rotund, round, stout, tubby or just plain FLUFFYYYY ( to the werl) then you may want to make sure your legs of ham hold comfortably under the desk and the chair will be able to contain your junken trunk for the next two to three hours.
3. Get the paper and check the clock. So you want to time yourself. No more than x amount of time must be spent on any one question. Wait , wait I forgot....
4. Before checking the clock just quickly scan and choose the question. This shouldn't take long. Why? Hopefully you prepared for the worst but the best is on the paper. Really, if you think about it, there must be at least two questions you can do (DOG NYAM U SUPPA IF YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO THREE!). Once you decide, don't chnage your mind. If you do then guaranteed you will be thrown off course. Just pretend those are the only two questions on the paper and get to thinking.
5. You cannot write everything you know. Hopefully after having gone through a semester of instruction, your lecturer would have already known what you are capable of. Exams only test application of principles under pressure. After all this is what you will face in the real world. Three good points are all you will need and "yu gaan a lead". It's not about showing off your study skills expertise. You have to keep it in focus.
6.Finish early. You want to give yourself ample time to just make minor corrections and really make sure you did your best. If there is something you remember, let it stay in your head because if you dare try to "skwinch" it in, it only demonstrates that you have failed. Adding that extra sentence will only throw off the six or seven you already had. Points off for organization *snicker**snicker**snicker*
7. Walk out my girl (or yute) walk out. Really, this is my favourite part. I have left all that is that one exam paper behind. I try to finish very very very early, like half an hour early, only because I do not want to hear the big hullabaloo that will be when the final bell sound. Discussing exams after they are done only means that for the next few months (while the papers are being marked) your blood pressure is bound to rise, you may lose a few pounds (hhmmm this may be a good ting)and you may pull out your hair wondering "what have I done". Be confident enough to know that you were right and they (the after- exam discussers) were wrong (Jesus weep if a nu so it go).
Well I don't know. I guess everybody has their own style. Mine has worked for me so far (maybe until after my history exam tomorrow) and I feel like I'm gonna stick to it!
