Tips & Strategies for Excellent Results in CBSE Exams:
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Right Learning Strategy
Time management and
Preparation Tips and
Other important key notes
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Right Learning Strategy
Time management and
Preparation Tips and
Other important key notes
Tips & Strategies to Attempt the CBSE Exams
Right Strategy to Attempt Board Paper:
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• Start with Best Answer
• Allocate Time for each Question
• Answer according to the Word Limit provided
• Spend less time on Each Question
• Answer should be 'To the Point'
• Simple Expression
• Diagrams & Graphs neatly Drawn
• Use as many Technical Words as required
• Avoid Bluffing the Answers
12 Steps for Effective Studying
Studying effectively is a process, not an event. The process leads to success.
- Plan a definite time for studying every day. This will discourage procrastination and prevent a pile-up of work. Studying every day, even for a short period of time, keeps you from falling behind. Prioritize your list and begin completing the most difficult material first.
- Know the purpose of and understand each assignment before leaving class. If you understand what to do and how to do it, your study time will be shortened. Keep a record of all assignments in a special section of your notebook or on a separate calendar.
- Predicting the amount of time you need for each assignment causes you to work smarter as well as harder and more productively. By keeping track of the actual amount of time you spend on your assignments, you are more likely to concentrate and less likely to become bored.
- Time yourself to see how long it takes you to read five pages of your textbook. This will help you determine the amount of time needed to complete a reading assignment. Because a textbook is loaded with information, you may have to read some sections more than once. Even instructors have to reread material. Allow time for reflecting and thinking about what you have read.
- Reading assignments are usually completed and due prior to the instructor lecturing on the material. Take a little time before class to review the material so you are ready to participate in class discussions and are prepared for any quizzes.
- Adopt a textbook reading strategy, (like SQ4R), or whatever works for you. Pay attention to charts, diagrams, and special "boxed text" areas. They are definite aids to understanding the material.
- Every time you study, spend at least ten minutes reviewing the material from your previous study session. These "refresher shots" are part of the secret for long-term memory retention. This habit of frequent review also results in less time needed for studying prior to a major exam.
- 10% of what we read
- 20% of what you hear
- 30% of what we see
- 50% of what we see and hear
- 70% of what we talk about with others
- 80% of what we experience personally
- 95% of what we teach to others
- Study during the day. You are probably less efficient at night.
- Study for 30 to 40 minutes and then take a 5-minute break, or if your concentration and discipline will allow, study for 50 minutes and take a 10-minute break. Get up walk around, stretch, drink some water, or eat a light snack. Taking regular breaks refreshes your mind so you can concentrate better, finish faster, and retain more.
- If you do study at night set a "stopping time" for yourself. This "time frame" will encourage hard work in anticipation of the clock going off. You may even set a goal for yourself to complete an assignment before the time limit. This increased impetus may help you to concentrate.
- Do not cram the night before a test. Distribute your review in half-hour segments over a period of days. If you do not adopt a structured study schedule, you will not master required course material and you will set yourself up to fail.
- Learning is accumulative. New ideas must be incorporated with previous material from lectures, readings, and any other assignments such as labs. You have to continuously make the connection in your mind from new material to previously learned material and/or experiences. Putting it all together is easier if you schedule time daily to read, to think, to write, to reflect, and to review.
Not having enough time to study means you lack organization, so by managing your time, you have control over your life and a chance to do more of what you want to do.
"time management"
The foundation for success!
You have a task or a goal you want to accomplish. This could be a single task or a number of tasks that you need to take care of in a day or over a period of a few days. Without a structured approach to these tasks you would be like a car spinning its tires on an icy road; there's a lot of effort being put into reaching a destination, but the vehicle, you, is virtually stuck in the same spot wasting gas. To achieve your destination you must take all the known obstacles and conditions into consideration. Allowances must also be made for the possibility of unknown conditions that will ultimately arise. The best method or "plan" most successful in accomplishing goals is "time management." Time management is the appropriate use of and structuring of your time in order for you to maximize your time. If you learn how to maximize your time, you will have ample time to successfully accomplish everything you need to and want to accomplish. Accomplishments don't just happen; they are carefully planned for.
Professionals from all walks of life have written volumes on what are the best approaches to managing your time. In every author's rendition there is one unanimous absolute rule - you must use a calendar on which to write a detailed, prioritized schedule. For every author, there are that many views on what type of calendar you should use. The important issue here is for you to use any kind of calendar you feel comfortable with, and one that will allow you to view a complete day on one page and enough room on that page to write concise directions.
Before going on this journey into the realm of time management, take a few minutes and complete the "Study Behavior Inventory". Knowing where you are right now in your approach to your studying will enable you to design a workable schedule. This assessment is just that, an assessment, not a test. You are simply to answer "yes" or "no," but your answers must be honest. This is for your benefit and no one else's. Once you have finished, return to this page and continue with the next paragraph.
It's good to take a look at yourself once in a while!
How many questions did you answer yes? How many no? Research indicates that the most effective and successful college students answer no to all 25 questions (Brown, 1977). It may be helpful as you think about your study behavior to review those items that you answered yes. You might want to ask yourself how those particular behaviors affect your study effectiveness. What does this have to do with "time management?" As you probably noticed, there were a number of questions dealing with time, place, and amount of work accomplished. These are directly related to how you manage and spend your time. If you are spending a lot of time accomplishing very little, maybe you are day-dreaming too much, and not concentrating on the task at hand. If this is the case, you are wasting time. Time is like money, once it's spent, it's gone, - you won't have any more until next pay day, or in this case when the sun comes up. If you find you are not able to get very far when studying, then maybe you are not allowing for enough time. So you see, it is a combination of many aspects all of which revolve around time; the amount of time you spend, when you spend it, where you spend it, and how you spend it. Keep this next statement in the for front of your mind: A procrastinator spends twice as much time and energy accomplishing half as much as someone who organizes his/her time.
Does getting organized involve work? YES! What does it take to get organized? It takes discipline, dedication, drive, determination, desire, practice, and a lot of patience and consistency. These attributes are the elements of success that can neither be given to you nor done for you by someone else. To become an efficient and effective manager of your time, you need to become efficient and effective with the process. You have the ability to perform all these attributes - you just need to DO IT!
Having your time and life organized is similar to organizing for a trip. Remember two people can take different roads and arrive at the same destination at approximately the same time. The differences between the two trips are the scenery's, the road conditions, and how fast they each had to drive to reach the same conclusion. Personally I prefer to take a well paved, smooth road, admiring fantastic scenery, and have planned well enough in advance to take a leisurely trip. What kind of road are you traveling?
You have a task or a goal you want to accomplish. This could be a single task or a number of tasks that you need to take care of in a day or over a period of a few days. Without a structured approach to these tasks you would be like a car spinning its tires on an icy road; there's a lot of effort being put into reaching a destination, but the vehicle, you, is virtually stuck in the same spot wasting gas. To achieve your destination you must take all the known obstacles and conditions into consideration. Allowances must also be made for the possibility of unknown conditions that will ultimately arise. The best method or "plan" most successful in accomplishing goals is "time management." Time management is the appropriate use of and structuring of your time in order for you to maximize your time. If you learn how to maximize your time, you will have ample time to successfully accomplish everything you need to and want to accomplish. Accomplishments don't just happen; they are carefully planned for.
Professionals from all walks of life have written volumes on what are the best approaches to managing your time. In every author's rendition there is one unanimous absolute rule - you must use a calendar on which to write a detailed, prioritized schedule. For every author, there are that many views on what type of calendar you should use. The important issue here is for you to use any kind of calendar you feel comfortable with, and one that will allow you to view a complete day on one page and enough room on that page to write concise directions.
Before going on this journey into the realm of time management, take a few minutes and complete the "Study Behavior Inventory". Knowing where you are right now in your approach to your studying will enable you to design a workable schedule. This assessment is just that, an assessment, not a test. You are simply to answer "yes" or "no," but your answers must be honest. This is for your benefit and no one else's. Once you have finished, return to this page and continue with the next paragraph.
It's good to take a look at yourself once in a while!
How many questions did you answer yes? How many no? Research indicates that the most effective and successful college students answer no to all 25 questions (Brown, 1977). It may be helpful as you think about your study behavior to review those items that you answered yes. You might want to ask yourself how those particular behaviors affect your study effectiveness. What does this have to do with "time management?" As you probably noticed, there were a number of questions dealing with time, place, and amount of work accomplished. These are directly related to how you manage and spend your time. If you are spending a lot of time accomplishing very little, maybe you are day-dreaming too much, and not concentrating on the task at hand. If this is the case, you are wasting time. Time is like money, once it's spent, it's gone, - you won't have any more until next pay day, or in this case when the sun comes up. If you find you are not able to get very far when studying, then maybe you are not allowing for enough time. So you see, it is a combination of many aspects all of which revolve around time; the amount of time you spend, when you spend it, where you spend it, and how you spend it. Keep this next statement in the for front of your mind: A procrastinator spends twice as much time and energy accomplishing half as much as someone who organizes his/her time.
Does getting organized involve work? YES! What does it take to get organized? It takes discipline, dedication, drive, determination, desire, practice, and a lot of patience and consistency. These attributes are the elements of success that can neither be given to you nor done for you by someone else. To become an efficient and effective manager of your time, you need to become efficient and effective with the process. You have the ability to perform all these attributes - you just need to DO IT!
Having your time and life organized is similar to organizing for a trip. Remember two people can take different roads and arrive at the same destination at approximately the same time. The differences between the two trips are the scenery's, the road conditions, and how fast they each had to drive to reach the same conclusion. Personally I prefer to take a well paved, smooth road, admiring fantastic scenery, and have planned well enough in advance to take a leisurely trip. What kind of road are you traveling?