The Student's Guide to Exam Success

The Student's Guide to Exam Success

Language: English

Pages: 208

ISBN: 0335220487

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Students will perform better in exams if they have the necessary emotional resources in the run-up. This guide offers advice on developing emotional strength in response to the increasingly heavy demands that are made on students in the modern world.

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is a strategy – produces such excellent results that they usually repeat the exact same pattern for each test. These children start to worry that they will never find the motivation to prepare anything in good time, since ultimately their procrastination bears surprisingly good fruit. In higher education, of course, the eleventh-hour approach is an appalling strategy, given the depth of enquiry required. The earlier you can start learning material, the more margin you give yourself to absorb it

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