Exam Preparation
Handy online tips: Preparing for Exams
So, it's a week before your exam, and you‘ve decided that you need to do some
study! Well, ideally, this decision should have been made some time ago, but
regardless of where you are at in the study cycle, here are some useful tips
and websites to help you out. So hop to it – get some study done on how to
study!
"Knowing how to study is like knowing how to fish. It's a set of learning skills
that lasts a lifetime and brings many rewards."¹ Use these resources to develop
good study habits, recognise your strengths and weaknesses, and be prepared
for essays, tests and exams.
ANU
Resources:
Skilling Up for Exams
Workshops are conducted jointly by the Academic Skills and Learning Centre
and ANU Counselling Centre. Email counselling.centre@anu.edu.au
Relaxation Group
If you want to feel more relaxed over the build up to the exam period, come
along to the Relaxation Group sessions at the Counselling Centre. Email
counselling.centre@anu.edu.au
Past ANU exam
papers are available in the Library
The Academic Skills and
Learning Centre provides assistance in many aspects of campus life and
study, including:
Preparing
for exams
Being
streetwise for exams
Multiple
choice exams
Download the ANU Counselling Service quick tips pamphlet:
overcoming
exam anxiety
External
Resources:
Study
techniques:
The University Learning Centre at the University of Arizona
provides online
tutorials in time management, note taking, exam preparation and more.
Exam guidelines
are available from iamnext.com
Take a study skills
audit with the University of Minnesota Duluth, and then hone the skills
that need some work.
Marquette University‘s Educational Opportunity Program
offers some study tips
& test-taking strategies
The University of Waterloo offers a Study
Skills Package helping you with skills such as listening, reading, distractions,
and time management (click on the links on the side bar).
Canada‘s University of Victoria has a Learning Skills Program
with advice on exam techniques, motivation, critical thinking and public speaking.
Dealing with
Anxiety before, during and after exams:
Strategies for dealing
with test anxiety from Potsdam, the State University of New York.
The International Stress Management Association‘s
top
ten stress busters.
Take on board some skills for managing
your test anxieties, from iamnext.com
York University‘s Counselling and Development Centre
provides online guidance for preparing tests
and exams
Exam and Test Taking
Skills:
Tips for writing
short answer essay questions from Michigan State University.
Strategies for
exam questions that you cannot answer immediately can be found at the
Virginia Tech Cook Counselling Centre.
The University of Minnesota Duluth suggests some test
taking strategies, including before, during and after tips.
Marquette University‘s Educational Opportunity Program
offers some advice on taking a short answer
test, and more study
tips & test-taking strategies.
As part of the University of Waterloo Study Skills you can
gain some useful information on preparing
for exams and different techniques
to try once you are in the examination room.
Deakin University‘s Study Support unit offer some
advice on exam
preparation and download the guide to exam
success.
York University‘s Counselling and Development Centre
provides online guidance for preparing
for tests and exams, including essay type and multiple-choice exams.
Brockport High School in the USA has some useful information
about studying
for and taking
exams.
The University of North Dakota offers advice on some of
the most common
exam errors.
