Student Guide On Time Management During The Exam

The clock, measuring the unstoppable advance of time, is usually the protagonist of the worst nightmares during the exam. We suggest you take a complete turn to this vision and make it one of your best allies. Use your watch to learn how to distribute and control the time in the examination. An advantage that can be decisive to achieve your goal. Even though writing some of the best essays you have to practice time management to perform well in the exam.

A first tip, return to the wristwatch of a lifetime. In the hands or digital version, we leave that to your liking. But, when you sit down to prepare your exam, measure and control the time with one of these devices. Keep in mind that during the exam mobile phones and similar devices are prohibited, it is not the time to experiment!

In the event that you have to make an oral presentation in your exam, you can also use a stopwatch to find out how much time you spend developing each agenda. We recommend that you take a spare one in case the one you use at that time stops working.

Before starting

Take all the necessary exam material with you. Try to put yourself in the right place: without many distractions around, good lighting and temperature. Try to surround yourself with calm and calm people, do not stay before the exam to answer questions and increase tension

Starting your exam

Read the exam carefully and follow all instructions. Distribute and control time: divide the time between the number of questions and you will know the average time for each one you have. Quickly make the first sweep and answer only the questions that you are totally sure of ( you will gain confidence and time ), in the second sweep select the dubious ones with guarantees of reasoning and answer correctly, in the third sweep some difficult ones and in a fourth sweep review everything. Writing your best essays will take more than enough time so you have to make it count.

Respond with precision, adjusting the response to what is requested: focus first on the answers that you best master for confidence and security, then the dubious and then the most difficult. Before a blockage, tranquillity helps to remember, also rewrite the question on a dirty paper, indicating the possible response options. Take care of the content - structure, calligraphy, spelling, grammar - remember that you are not writing an SMS on your mobile or in messenger

Attend the presentation, clarity, and cleanliness that facilitate correction. Avoid spreading too much in some questions and subtract time from the rest. Try not to leave questions unanswered: put an outline, some basic ideas. Review the answers before submitting the exam

In the middle of the exam

Read the exam carefully and follow all instructions. Reading can give you references for some questions to others by facilitating the association of ideas. Clarify well what they ask you and whatnot. Outlines for the answer: draw concept maps, outlines in a draft to organize the answer, pointing out the main points requested in the question. It helps break the initial block, staying blank, does not pretend to reproduce the complete response from the first moment

Respond with precision, adjusting the response to what is requested: focus first on the answers that you best master for confidence and security and then the most difficult ones. Start with a very brief introduction, develop the main idea (s) and end with a conclusion, with your reasoned opinion if asked. Take care of the content - structure, calligraphy, spelling, grammar - remember that you are not writing an SMS on your mobile or in messenger. Attending the presentation, clarity, and cleanliness that facilitate correction, some explanatory graphics can be incorporated if the issue is mastered.

Avoid spreading too much in some question and subtract time from the rest, do not go through the branches because it causes a worse impression. Try not to leave questions unanswered, put an outline with some basic ideas at least. Review the answers before submitting the exam.

Bonus tips to effectively manage your time during the exam:

•                    Take the first moment of the exam to breathe easy. Starting calmly already involves addressing time management well. Also, oxygenate the mind helps to see the clearest things.

•                    Take the first few minutes to read the test statement completely before answering. That will give you a complete overview of what is expected of your knowledge. It will also help you see the available time with some perspective and be able to distribute it.

•                    Once you have read the entire exam, consult all the doubts you have with the teacher. It will not take you more than a few seconds and yet from that moment you will already have all the necessary nuances to answer.

•                    Calculate how long the entire exercise can be answered. Analyze the assessments that the teacher assigns to each of the answers and how much you know about each one. Needless to say, in an exam, it is usually not necessary to answer in order. Some questions may be related to each other: value the time of that set. Sometimes it is good to start with the ones that have more security and on other occasions for the ones that have more value in the qualification. Establish a strategy so that everything you have studied comes into view at the time you have.

•                    Plan how much you can devote to each of the questions. Assign a time to each question raised and try to keep it throughout the exam. Sometimes the space of the answers is limited, keep this in mind. Check at the end of each pair of questions, but with peace of mind, if you are complying with the test schedule you have proposed. Halfway through the exam, try to readjust it if necessary. If you left it for later the readjustment would be difficult.

•                    In planning the time, reserve a few minutes before submitting the exercise to review your answers. This question of common sense is sometimes forgotten, but when managing time, it is important to keep it in mind. You have to reserve that moment so you can read and review the exam completely, detect possible errors or issues with a lack of clarity and rectify them.

•                    Do not save time on the exam with order or cleaning. Take care of the lyrics, dedicate time to clarity.

The ultimate guide to time management during the exam

Calculate the time you have per question. If the opposition exam consists of 105 questions and has a duration of 120 minutes, you cannot spend more than one minute on each answer. Place the clock or the stopwatch on the table, so that you can see the time at all times, without losing a second in consulting it. Divide the time into successive laps to answer according to your security level. Normally, with three you should have enough. Following the previous example of the 120 minutes, on the first lap, you would dedicate 40 minutes and on the second 30, while you would reserve the remaining 50 to review all the questions that have been pending, the ones that cause you the most difficulties.

Use the same mechanics, which you have been practicing at home, to write the answers because that makes it a gesture that you have automated, with the consequent saving of time and avoiding mistakes. Every tenth of a second count in your favor! Our proposal is that in the booklet you cross out the number of questions you know and circle the correct answer while answering it on the exam sheet. With the idea of ​​quickly identifying the doubtful ones in the second review, it is not a bad idea to circle the number and cross out the answers that we know are not correct.

Make a micro-scheme before the exam, especially in those tests that are developmental or in those cases in which you have to write a more extensive answer. In this way, you can organize the ideas and know where to start writing.

Conclusion

The proposed system allows you to consume no more than 20 seconds per question and have made a complete reading in the first round. In the second, going straight to the slopes, we will have more time to think. And more in the third, because you will have learned to manage the time in the examination of your opposition.