1. ASSESSMENT PREPARATION
Preparing for your tests & exams

2. Long Before the Assessment
1. Connect your course outline, coursework and the exam
Make notes
Process your notes
Get clarification from the lecturer/tutor

3. Long Before the Assessment
2. Set revision goals
Choose topics needing extra work
Set time frames for study (when and what?)
Study cards
Mind mapping

4. 3. Practice sitting exams (get some feedback)
Go through past exam papers & get feedback on your answers
Time yourself while doing past exam papers
Find out where and when the exam is held
Find out the day/date/time of exam
Find out room/building of exam
Do a travel time/plan

5. R E L A X !

6. Day Before the Assessment
Organise the things you need to take to the exam:
ID card
Examination slip
Texts or notes (for open book exams)
Stationery
Water bottles/sweets

7. Morning of the Assessment
R E L A X !
Eat your usual breakfast
Don’t study
Leave early to get to your exam

8. During the Assessment Use the reading time well…
read the exam notes & instructions
identify compulsory questions
Decide between optional questions
Decide how much time you’ll spend on each question

9. During the Assessment Use the writing time well…
underline key instruction words
make notes or mind maps on questions before writing
Remember strategies for getting through ‘mental blocks’