Passing Your Exams

A great man once said hard work is the key to Success!! Someone else said Rome wasn’t built in a single day. But what do you do when you have only a week for your exam to begin and you probably seeing your Books only the Second time (The First time was when you bought it or Got Xeroxed) First of all, stop listening to the great men. Don’t hit the panic button. Here are some tips to avoid the big “F” word

Catch The Catch Words

Once you have started out smoothly (God Save you if you haven’t), remember there are a few important words in every subject that repeat a lot. Take maximum advantage of these words. These are words like comparison, practically, etc that you find difficult to understand but are useful when you mug them up. Use these words wherever possible in the answer, but make sure you don’t overdo it, just use your common sense when it comes to repeatability.

Get The Big Picture

Always remember that a picture is worth a thousand words. Even if you know more about the topic than the guy who wrote the book, if your figure/block diagram is not up to the mark you may end up losing precious marks. So, always concentrate on your diagrams.

Evaluators having to correct hundreds of answer sheets every day, usually tend to be generous if your figures are neat and tidy.

And let me tell you by my own experience it helps a lot even if you don’t know anything about the topic but do have some basic idea about the diagram…. Don’t waste ur time and draw it because no-one reads ur answer if the diagram is correct.

Back To Basics

Kindergarten lessons really last long!! Remember those times when you drew lines after every answer and underlined important words? Presentation is the key to success! With all the decoration that you do, the examiner believes that you are responsible enough to write neatly. The fully-impressed examiner will then gracefully turn pages, generously giving you marks.

Play Your Openers First

Just like they don’t allow Ishant Sharma to open the batting line-up in a final, never start answering your paper with a question you are not comfortable with. Every subject must have at least a couple of topics that you have marginal idea about. Answer questions from these topics first. Evaluators don’t mind if you spoil the order in which you answer the questions as long as the answers make sense. So, play your openers first. Remember, the first impression is the best impression.

Caution!!

If the question have subparts do it together….don’t irritate the evaluator by answering one part in beginning and other part at last page.

Good Hand-Writing/ Bad Hand-Writing

Contrary to popular belief, many students say writing neatly results in the evaluator reading all the answers. So if you don’t have much to write about, write in a relatively shabby hand-writing, but make sure you write a lot, so the evaluator feels that you have written a lot on the topic, but he doesn’t have the patience to read it. If you are however, blessed with a great handwriting, make sure to use it to the maximum (with great power comes great responsibility!!) a good hand-writing is basically sucking up to the evaluator, but hey, anything to pass right?

Play The Novelist

Writing in big letters to make an answer look length may be one trick to get the marks. But this is not the only one!! Use superb vocabulary skills that you have imbibed to write and rewrite the same story (read concepts) again and again in direct and indirect speeches.

You just have to make the examiner believe you don’t have enough words to describe the knowledge you have on the subject!!