Set your priorities right during exams

Oct 24, 2007

<b>LIFESKILLS</b><br><br>THE final exams for Senior Four students have begun. Soon, the Senior Six and Primary seven will also start, followed by the lower classes doing the promotion exams.

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LIFESKILLS

THE final exams for Senior Four students have begun. Soon, the Senior Six and Primary seven will also start, followed by the lower classes doing the promotion exams.

As the academic year comes to an end, you need to realise that the exams you are doing are meant to promote you to another level, regardless of whether you are a candidate or not. To help you prepare for the exams, here are some tips:

-Consolidate what you have been learning by revising all the work covered since Senior One.

-Set priorities. Put aside some things that will distract you from achieving your academic goals, for example, love relationships, gossip and unnecessary roaming on the school compound.

-Devise means of achieving your targets. The best way to do it is through personal revision, discussion groups and consulting your teachers where you do not understand.

-Take extra care of your health because any slight illness or injury may cause you to miss exams. For example, consider sleeping under a mosquito net if you have not been doing so, to avoid getting malaria. Avoid eating cold, left over foods or drinking unboiled water. This will help you cut down the risk of contracting diseases like dysentery. Put aside games that may cause you to get fractures.

-It is important that you avoid bad company which may lure you into; escaping from school, looking for leaked exams, alcohol drinking, and disco dancing, instead of revising.

-Get enough rest. Avoid reading throughout the night to avoid headaches and strain on your brain.

-Avoid last minute reading, especially at the entrance of the exam room. This reading confuses you, especially if you have never read through the topic, at the same time strains your head.

-After doing the paper, avoid the habit of looking through the notes to see whether you have got the questions right. This habit causes discouragement, especially if you discover that you did not answer the questions well. This will affect your performance for the exams not yet done.

-Finally, you will need a lot of self-drive. This will enable you to do your personal revision, class work and assignments without close supervision from your teachers. Self-drive enables you to compete favourably in academics and general world challenges.

The writer is a teacher at Lakeside College, Luzira

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