The Exam Skills Handbook (2nd Edition)
Achieving Peak Performance
Author(s):Red Globe Press
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AVAILABLE FORMATS
Paperback - 9780230358546
22 February 2012
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16 September 2017
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Provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It gives practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance...
Show MoreProvides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It gives practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies. This fully updated, two-colour edition includes two brand new chapters.
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- Answers the questions students most frequently bring to exam preparation
- Easy to follow, step-by-step approach to developing a range of ideas, strategies and techniques to succeed in exams
- Designed so students can start at different places depending on their circumstances
- Provides pathways to simply passing exams through to achieving optimal performance using the concept of the 'exam zone'
- Practical step-by-step guidance on approaching revision and exams, including a series of structured revision sessions students can follow or adapt
- Activities and structured reflection to help students identify personal strategies, with checklists to help planning
- Uses a page by page design to enable students to find information quickly
Introduction
Where Do I Start?
Getting in 'The Zone' 1: Planning For Peak Performance
Getting in 'The Zone' 2: Frames Of Mind For Peak Performance
Exam Myths and Realities
What Are Examiners Looking For?
Managing Different Types of Exams
Multiple Choice Questions
Revision Strategies
Memory: Remembering What We Want When We Need It
Structured Revision Sessions
Managing Stress
Getting in 'The Zone' 3: Seeing Success
The Exam
Multiple Choice Question Exams (MCQs)
Managing Different Types of Exams
Appendix 1: Alternative Arrangements for Students with Disabilities
Appendix 2: Might I Be Dyslexic?
Appendix 3: Sources of Help
Appendix 4: 5 Point Plan for Peak Performance
Appendix 5: Planning Checklists
Appendix 6: Tracking Developments in an Area of Research
References
Index.