How You Can Complete Your Syllabus in a short Duration?
If your exams are close and your panic mode is on. Then this article might give you a perspective to deal with it.
Hey, there I know for a fact that your humongous syllabus can’t be chopped down or reduced in one go instantly. And you have to deal with exams which you can’t avoid. Whatever may be the case for you whether you procrastinated or you were too busy to touch your books. Anything, which resulted in an incomplete syllabus. I assure you, this can be managed. All you have to do here is be calm and focused on the work at hand.
So, your best shot here is damage control.
Disclaimer:- You have to do the work here. Without your physical presence, it’s not going to work.
You could do the following things listed below:-
1.Go For Books And Past Papers
We need a rough scan of the chapter and subject holistically. So read the index of books and headings of the topics. You get an idea about what the topic is about. Go through in-text questions and past year papers which would give you the scope of questions being asked on exams.
Note these questions or take a printout of these questions and topics from where questions are coming in. Note down the frequency of the topic coming in the form of questions. The more frequent a topic is, the more important it is for examiners(5x). And less frequent a topic is less important it is for examiners. (3x ) Some questions come rarely note them down as well (one time).You never know what might come in from these topics.
Prepare accordingly concerning the above data you have.
While you’re at it read a summary of each chapter. Now read the topics in the chapter with at most attention.
Now, do the same for each chapter and subject.
These chapters are like Unseen Passages (comprehension) that you need to find answers for.
2. Learn from Videos if you’re short on time —
You can watch videos — Youtube. There are tons of videos available on a given topic. You can choose videos whichever you like. This will decrease your time on revising or studying. You can opt for measures which reduce your time on studying.
There, you can change and adjust the speed setting and set it to 1.5x or 2.5x.
The videos will be a smooth ride once you opt for cc — subtitle button (in YouTube). This will enable the content to appear as a chosen language in the video. This will act as your revision content once you read the content of the video as the subtitle.
Our eyes always follow the written material. And we need to see them with our very eyes to explain actual formate in the form of text. What we read as the text is replicated in exams in the form of written material. So, even if you follow videos for studies. You would need books or text as reference material to write in exams eventually. But a video cannot replace written materials.
This helps you in focusing on the material one at a time.
You can also refer to ppt available on Google. You can note down the points you need for exams or convert this PPT (powerpoints ) into PdFs. You can use google images for reference, save them or download them. And you can convert them into Pdfs.
Take photos from your phone gallery and convert them into pdf. This will act as your notes.
You can ask questions or create them in notes as well. A better way of handling short and long answer keys in form questions which will help in revision.
3. Consolidating The Content For Exams —
Once you have everything(resources ), you start revising using active recalls or making associations with the given facts available to you. And consolidate once you have revised six times. You can do revisions daily till you see gaps in your memory. When gaps arrive in your memory know that it’s time to revise again.
You can opt for revision techniques like drawing analysis of the given data. Revision within 24 hrs.Revision with a day later and revision for four days consecutively. You can opt for these or the methods you have.
Just don’t change your resources. Stick to one till you get over your exams.
4. Know the Resources —
You should know what you should read and what you shouldn’t read in exams. Reads the stuff mentioned by your teachers. The chances of questions coming from them are very high. Mark these topics beforehand in case you don’t want to work later. Devise a plan for that time when you procrastinate and there might be things you’ll have to do when exams arrive. Study keeping the pointers to the subject in mind.
5. Know that smart only works when you do hard work.
Short quick schemes don’t lead you anywhere. The path to happiness has been long but very satisfying internally. And when you do true work you are rewarded nicely. Let me differentiate what is working smartly called — the act of reducing your work using your brain is called work. Where quality has not been compromised rather it has been upgraded. Whereas hard work is doing genuine work with effort.
6) Be calm.
You should be calm instead of panicking because your brain will get tense and will take additional pressure. And it won’t be focused for a long time which will hamper your experience in real-time exams.
You need your brain and for that, you have to be calm and composed. Otherwise, the experience of exams will be ruined. So, will your confidence.
The real test is not the exam but how well you handle things when you see a situation out of your control. The only tool you have is Yourself and your brain. If your brain is compromised, then you are compromised. Simple. Be Calm as far as possible.
The real key is managing your syllabus. Being ready for uncertainty.
With this, I hope you get an idea as to how to do things when it comes to exams.
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