准备考试

Exam Success: Taking Exams

Right before the exam:

• Review summaries 和 outlines rather than trying to cram at the last minute.
• 确保你已经 packed everything you need to take 为了考试, including pens, colored pencils, 和 calculator.
• 避免接触 with anyone who might cause you stress.
• Arrive a few minutes early 为了考试.

读 the entire test first.

• 确认 that you have the whole exam.
• 请注意 point distributions 和 special instructions.

Plan 和 apportion your time.

• 分配 the amount of time you spend on a question based on the credit you’ll receive for answering it correctly.
• 回答 easy 问题 first 和 then move to harder ones.
• Mark any question in the margin that you need to come back to.

Problem-solving sections:

• 突出, 圆，否则 表明 what your final answer is, but don’t obliterate any work that you’ve done. It may be the source of partial credit.
• 使 图 和 图 大而易读.
• 如果你卡住了， make a note to yourself in the margin 赌球app what you need to do 和 come back to the problem later.
• If you’re worried that your answer is wrong, 解释过程 by which you arrived at that answer. This can be a good source of partial credit.

论文部分:

• 下划线 关键术语 in the 问题.
• 使 sure that your essay does what the instructions call for (common verbs in instructions are: analyze, trace, explain, discuss, compare, contrast).
• 写一个提纲 at the beginning of your answer or in the margins. This will help you structure your response 和 may be a source of partial credit if you run out of time.
• 回答 every part of the question.
• 提供 textual examples, references, data, 图, etc.

Multiple-choice sections:

• 不深思 问题.
• 读 每一个答案.
• 消除答案 that you know to be wrong or that are highly unlikely.
• Trust your first instincts 和 change an answer only if you actually remember the correct one.

Short answer 和 identification sections:

• Be 清晰的 和 精确的.
• 引用意义 of thing, person, place being identified.
• 定义 关键术语.
• Don’t spend too much time 对于任何一个问题.

如果你卡住了...

• Mark that question in the margin 和 come back to it later.
• 回答 首先是你知道的. This might help you think of more information.
• 写下来 你所知道的. It may help you remember more.

从检索 Princeton: Exam Success