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9.23.2009

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Hi Guys, this is my entry 2, where I will be giving certain tips on what should you do before you enter an exam hall:p. Indeed its the most nervous time, some of us will keep flipping notes, some of us will feel dead due to the burning of the midnight oil, while some of us may suffer panic attacks just before we enter the exam hall. So what should we do really?

If you find really got to remember one thing from this post..remember this

TIP 2: Confidence!!!

2 Timothy 1:7 - For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Yes, there was once a soccer coach who said this to his dispirited team, "In everything, in life, you need confidence, and right now, if the players get the confidence, I'm sure they will perform".

If you are feeling down and out, and not having a single belief that you can handle the exam ahead of you..guess what, all the more you need the confidence just before entering the exam hall.....

"But I didn't study le...."

Well being nervous will just make you forget the basic things that you have learnt. 有信心已经是成功的一半。。。So be confident no matter what. But confidence isn't just something you say, it's something you build

So then the question comes...how to build that confidence before entering the exam hall?

Here are some of the steps that I take to build my confidence before entering the exam hall and during the exam and after the exam.

a) Organize and put what you've learnt neatly into a few pages of notes. Don't learnt new things before entering the exam hall. This is especially true 1 hour before the exam. If you try to learn new things, you will put in a lot more effort to try and memorize it. The result is you will usually forget what you have learnt previously and remember what you learn one hour before the exam instead...

So what you need to do is to recall what you've learn and not to learn new things. So you become very clear headed about what've you learn and hence you would not be nervous.

b) Tell yourself, whatever you've never learnt, it would never come out. Usually its true:p unless you totally never study at all.....

c) Reach the school early, for the N levellers, know your seatings. Being 15-30 mins early helps to settle you down and prepares your for the battle ahead.

d) When you start doing the exam paper, don't start doing blindly. Instead, scan through the paper and look through the questions!. Look for the easy questions and do them first. Once you can solve some questions, it builds confidence in you.

e) If the paper's really tough for you, it will be tough for others do:p. Don't have ideas like "Why am I so stupid, cant do these question" and all sorts of thing. You just need to skip that question.

f) Check exam paper, if possible, for the last 15 mins. (For questions you know, you should have completed them, for questions you have no answer to, staring at them would not help, might as well check your answers to prevent any careless mistakes)

g) After the exam, don't discuss the answers.....no one has the answer sheet, save your breadth and go home and sleep. If you want to relax, you can go out and have a good lunch with friends.

h) Lastly, don't think about the questions on the exam paper that you've completed because most likely, you have another paper ahead of you. Focus on the next paper. You do not want your confidence to be sapped away by your previous paper!

Well I think I have give enough suggestions for this entry. Just wanna say that certain simple things, like arriving early, scan the exam paper and do the easy ones first, convincing yourself that what you've learn will come out for exams are simple steps, that can make you more confident during the exam:p

So be confident and again I say to you, be confident!!!

Jacob aka Kwong Hui

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