Throughout your educational life—and, more than likely, the rest of your life—testing will be an inevitable if sometimes frightening and distressing reality. The sooner you learn the techniques of preparing for, taking, and mastering tests, the better off you’ll be.
What Do They Want to Know?
Many tests are as much a measure of the way you study— your ability to organize a mountain of material—as they are a measure of your knowledge of the material itself. This is especially true of any test that purports to measure knowledge spread across the years and your mastery of a broad spectrum of material—the SAT; GRE; bar or medical exam; exams for nurses, CPAs, financial planners, etc.; and others. Which means the better you study, the better your score will probably be on such tests.
What Are You Afraid Of?
Tests are scary creatures. So before I start doling out test-taking techniques, let’s tackle one of the key problems many of you will face: test anxiety, a reaction characterized by sweaty palms, a blank mind, and the urge to flee to Pago Pago on the next available cargo ship. What does it mean when someone proclaims they don’t “test well?” For many, it really means they don’t study well (or, at the very least, prepare well). For others, it could mean they are easily distracted, unprepared for the type of test they are confronting, or simply unprepared mentally to take any test. visit the site mis webmail
Conclusion
We all recognize the competitive nature of tests. Some of us rise to the occasion when facing such a challenge. Others are thrown off balance by the pressure. Both reactions probably have little to do with one’s level of knowledge, relative intelligence, or amount of preparation. The smartest students in your class may be the ones most afraid of tests.
