Preparing for the exam
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Feel physically comfortable from beginning to end. Even before starting to read the exam paper, put all your personal belongings under your seat or on the side. Do not be encumbered or pressured by anything on your lap, at your back or on your sides during the exams. This also discourages cheating. Only your ball pen and a handkerchief may be allowed on your hands during the exam.
Be sure you are wearing comfortable clothes or uniform. Do not wear a tight-fitting one when you take the exams so you will not be bothered by bursting buttons or plunging sleeves. Girls with long hair should put their hair in a bun or hang in pony tail. Or draw it back with a headband so you can read the test papers comfortably and without annoyance. Those with slight coughs or any other ailment should take their medicines before coming to class and if they are strong enough to do so.
Sit up straight. Let your entire weight fall on the seat. Lean on the back of your seat and your right arm on the rest. Your head should not strain forward, sidewards or backward. It should hang loose. Never arch your back at any point of the exam. This will pressure you a lot, impair memory and produce a poor posture. Your posture will not help your brain produce more information. And sit calmly. No swinging of thechair or of your feet, no tapping of your finger or ball pen on the seat. Just stay put and sit still. The exam will be over sooner than you know it.
While going through the test paper, you may or may not feel that your answers are correct. The most uncomfortable feeling is that of not being sure! Don’t give in to the discomfort. Credit yourself for the good try. Just be sure you really do your best — without straining — in tackling the questions. If you really and sufficiently reviewed, you will neither fear nor regret. Time and again, this is being said and cannot be over-emphasized. It is a choice you must begin making or never make. If you are dead- set about becoming an exemplary student, you would have turned every stone in preparing and this alone can make you feel pretty sure you take any quiz, test or exam with flying colors.