Well, it IS the exam seasons and it is well and truly under way right now. Having finished 1 paper, rehabilitation, I can now say with conviction I am prepared to give all you readers “Kristine’s Guide To Exams”. Of course, I got this idea from the Curtin Uni Guild GROK magazine, but some of these are actually based upon real life things that either happened to me or other people. So read on.
1. Buy a pencil. A very handy writing tool to use for multiple choice questions which you should score for.
2. BRING THE PENCIL. Also a very handy tip so you can write your answers.
3. Buy an eraser. Definitely don’t use the erasers on the back of the yellow HB pencils you take from the Mrs Mac’s test counters when you’re supposed to fill out the survey. Tsk tsk…..Karma baby. Karma.
4. Organize your file. Part of the fun in procrastinating your studying time, plus you’d probably discovered you DID indeed print those lecture notes you need to study from.
5. Outline a timetable and deadlines to have studied various units from.
6. Definitely bring a box of tissues into the exam room. We don’t appreciate snot being wiped on the tables or for you to keep sniffing every 30 seconds. Just drives the bajeebers out of us either way.
7. Double check your exam venue and time the night before. Showing up for an exam 30 minutes late might make you look like a hero, but it’ll only be to your detriment.
8. Make sure you have the right unit’s exam timetable. Check that if the unit is done for 3 year groups, you are in the right place for each year group is separated. Research Methods 112 and OT 108 – Research Methods might have the same content but the venues are TOTALLY miles apart from each other.
9. Make sure you have a bottle of water. Writing for 2 hours in the exam room with a dry, parched throat is not the way to go.
10. Make sure that bottle of water isn’t some giant 2 liter bottle. You bladder ain’t that big and I’m sure that with such a heavy bottle, you’re bound to spill it on the floor during the exam at some point. Not to mention you’re going to annoy people by walking in and out to the toilets during the exam.
11. Speaking about bladders, go to the toilet before the exam. Never overestimate the bladder’s ability to hold in pee when your thinking and writing in the frigid cold.
12. Whatever you do, DO NOT EAT A MASSIVE BOWL OF CURRY LAKSA THE NIGHT BEFORE EXAMS EVEN THOUGH ITS SUPER COLD AT NIGHT AND YOU’RE TRYING TO KEEP WARM. Your digestive system is going to punish you all throughout your exams.
12. Last but not least, don’t cram everything the night before. You’ll only end up drooling on your exam paper and failing the unit.
Yours truly here has finished studying professional issues for now. There is the childhood exam on Friday which I’m currently studying for and there is also the applied research paper on Monday. Whee!!! After this, its back to watching Heroes, Scrubs, Ugly Betty and Friends! Not to mention karaoke and dinner the day we finish….Wheeee!!!
All the best for your “professional issues”….i believe you will do well:)
…lol…jerry
Thanks Kristine for reminding about exams as I surf through the net for some kind of distraction from my heartache.. and thanks for the tips too… will you be there for my post mortem?
Btw since I’m on wordpress too, how do I put a shoutbox on the right column of my site?
After exams, please be there for me. Don’t disappear.
Dad: Thanks! The paper was quite hard, but I think I did OK for it.
Zaneta: Don’t worry, I shall be there for you after exams
You’ll survive through the whole thing, I have confidence in you my dear. As for the shoutbox, I think you can’t put a shoutbox, but in my old site, you can put a widget from Meebo (which is like MSN that you can use on the go) and put it there. But as far as I know, the free wordpress doesn’t allow for shoutboxes to go on the sidebar.
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