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Objectives To help you initiate a smart preparation for the exam
To introduce you with exam psychology
To introduce you with exam strategies
To rectify your exam presentation
To ensure extra marks in English for you
Phases of the Presentation 1. Exam Preparation
2. Fighting Your English Exam Battle
3. The Days Before the Exam
4. The Night before the Exam
5. The Exam Day
6. Exam Psychology
7. Exam Presentation
1. Pre-Exam Preparation i) Motivation Your Brain is better than you think of
God has democratically distributed brains and everybody has one.
Stephen, Atiur Rahman-Man Can be destroyed but never be defeated.
From Cow Boy to Governor
I am a relentless worker!
My father called me a stupid!
God has democratically distributed brain!
Mental Set-up!
Pre-Exam Preparation ii) Mental Set-up & Piloting the Syllabus
Mental Maladies: Procrastination : ‘To be or not to be’
The Hardest part of an assignment is to start
Now or Never
Lower a bit the standard of your work
Learn to say know
Study according to a smart schedule
Piloting your project
Study just to fulfill your dream, not your parents’
(Failing to plan is planning to fail.)
Creating a Learning Environment
iii) Creating a learning Environment Reading Room Set-up
Reading Table Set-up
Decoration of Reading Room Wall
Not Using the Table and Bed
Learn the smart use of your cell-phone
Study in a well-lit room
iv. How to maximise outcome from your study
Restorf Theory of Maximising your memory recall
• You tend to recall from the beginig and the ending
• One can recall less from the middle of his learning topic.
• Solution: Break your study into small units
Revision Miracles
Revision Miracles! 80% lost after 24 hours!
Smart Style of Revision can maximise your recall
1st Revision: After 10 minutes for 5 mins.(day 1)
2nd Revision: After 1 Day (24 hours)
3rd Revision: After 7 days (1 week)
4th Revision: After 1 month ( 1 month)
Mind Map!
How to De-code Your Memory Enliven your memory through SMAHIN SCOPE of
memory code! S= Sensuality ( Feel, Touch …A touch can instill faith)
M= Movement ( Make it dynamic and have tea with you)
A= Association ( Link them with your permanent positive memory)
H= Humour (Make fun with info)
I = Imagination ( Float it through image… Imagination is better than knowledge)
N = Number ( Number force memory to stay forever).
S= Symb olism ( Transform it to implied different story )
C= Colour ( Stimulates memory system)
O= Order (Discipline)
P = Positive Image ( Memory tends to block the negative incidents)
E = Exaggeration ( Swell)
How to Fight Your English Exam Battle
Coping With English First Paper 1. Do you write down the questions in the Script?
2. Do you apply this fox-art in true/false?
4. Listing crux ? Are you a stupid?
5. Are you aware of these three mistakes in free-ending qns.?
6. Summarising: No detached sentence. No numbering required.
8. Six deadly sins in flow-chart! (diagram)
Stop irritating your examiner! 6. Rearrangement: Do you irritate your examiner?
7. Paragraph: Do you write an essay instead of a paragraph?
English 2nd Paper 1. Right Use of Verb: You can ensure 60 % marks only in 25 minutes study Rectify your answer with 3-Q methods (pie chart ) 2. Preposition: Just spend three hours now and relax in the
days before the exam. 3. Articles: Traditional rules memorising works best. Write
ans only 4. Phrase and Idioms: No Bangla Meaning (scanned slide) # Board Qns + Test Paper Make simple sentence by your teacher.
6.Passage Narration:
Are you aware of six check-points?
7. Tag Questions: So easy yet so poor score!
# List the confusing statements
# List the negative words
# Learn to make contracted forms (Spacing Prob)
7. Completing Sentence
# Proverbs & Saying
# List sentences from board questions and test paper and classify them according their grammatical rules
# Learn how to make clause and phrase
# Learn to make structural sentences.
# Have command over ‘Right Use of Verbs’.
8. Linking Words
# List all the linking words from board qns and test paper and memorise their meaning.
9. Transformation of sentences.
# Structural sentences: Learn to make phrase and clause. Memorise the sub-ordinating and co-ordinating conjunctions. Make a corresponding chart of conjunctions and phrases.
# Degree Transformation: Group the sentences and make a corresponding chart of characteristics.
Sentence (According to meaning):
# Corresponding chart
# List the opposite form of the adjectives and memorise them
Voice:
# List 19 auxiliaries of tenses of passive voice.
# Give special attention to imperative sentence.
(Usually no interrogative sentences is given in the board exam)
# Learn to make passive of Compound and Complex sentences.
# Learn to cope with double objects.
# List the confusing sentences.
Composition Report Writing:
# Do you know the Five Essential Parts of a Report?
# Do you know about the forbidden things in a report?
Application/ Formal Letter
You mustn’t these common 6 mistakes
Dialogue Writing Five Common errors you must check in while writing a
dialogue
Punctuation & Spelling
SMS & Facebook Language
Errors in contracted forms
Unusually large dialogue slot
Common Errors in the ending lines
Summary Writing The use of quotation/ inverted commas
The use of Personal Pronoun
Copying the text
The use of numbered sentences
Story Writing:
# Myth Vs. Reality
# 5 Fatal Errors (story of Heming Way)
Use scanned script
3. The Days before the Exam
3. The Days Before the Exam How do you count your remaining days of exam?
Deactivate Facebook and Cell-phone
Avoid TV room
Review your answers with some good friends in a group study.
Practice Quantum Sign
Talk to your teacher about your concerns.
Consider whether you have learning disability or an anxiety disorder
4. The Night before the Exam
Fig-2
The Night Before Exam Sleep:
Food:
Drinks:
Stress Management: Deep Breath
Prepare your tools and stuff
Review, not learn new things (base-ball player)
5. The Exam Day Hours Before the Exam
Dress
Water
Wear a watch
Arrive Early( seating arrangement, lighting)
Avoid Nervous Students
6. The Exam Psychology
6.a)How do you manage your stress?
During Examination Stress Management (Exam is not everything in life)
Quantum Sign
Deep Breath
Positive Visualisation
Read Directions Carefully
Don’t Look around, focus on yourself
Budget your time
Take each question equally important
Don’t underestimate yourself
During Examination Never get tense seeing others taking additional paper
Tension regarding circulation of questionnaire late
Make sure you have sufficient time for the last question.
7. Exam Presentation
Exam Paper Layout
Errors in Exam Script Decoration Margin:
# Upper Side/Header: 1 inch
# Left-Side: 1.5
#Right Side: 0.5 inch
# Bottom Side: 1 inch
Where to put serial number of the Questions?
Which colour do you use?
How do you pen through a wrong answer?
Fatal Errors In Exam Don’t forget to get back to your skipped question
A blank answer is always a wrong answer(put a check mark)
Answering a qn. Twice
Transferring ans. Incorrectly from scratch
Ignoring the clock ( 5 mins left but 5 ans to write)
Thinking too much
Strategies to fight the Qns. Deadly Spelling/Punctuation/grammar mistake/
overwriting at the beginning
Content is King!
Strategies: Scanning the qn. Some qns. need more time
Some qns. need more points
Some qns. need more drawings
Some qns. need more diagrams
Strategies: Starting with more difficult qn.
You will get exhausted
You will get stumble at the beginning
You will get demoralised ,nd may lose much time to cover.
Do you adopt wrong strategies? Writing too much or too little ( A short answer
covering each points is better than long answer detailing everything)
What if you fail to answer in due time?
You drop your writing style
You drop proper paragraphing
Do you blackmail your examiner?
Question & Answer Session
Please, never copy in the Exam! I Hate Copying in the Exam. Do You?
Parting Address