How To Study Effectively And Become A Test Psychic

1. Create a specific area in your workbook or have a set of notes that you use for listing possible test and exam questions. Every time you hear or see something that you believe may be on the next assessment simply jot it down. This means that you will have created a list of thoughts and ideas that you will be able to easily look over at a later time - often this will contain topics you had forgotten about!

2. When looking through your textbooks (or reading every single word as some people may do) highlight key information that you believe will or may be covered in a test or exam. This will really assist you later because you can ignore anything you have not highlighted. Note: there is not point highlighting everything because this defeats the purpose! Focus on key sentences or key points only.

3. Create a study group. This means getting together with a group of buddies (or even people who you think will be able to help you with your study i.e. possibly not your friends!) and brainstorm together possible questions and answers to future tests and exams. Two heads are always better than one. Three are better than two, four are better than three - and so on. The point is, as a study group you will be able to study for more information that one person can alone. So, you may like to all create your own mind maps, notes and questions and answers and then share them with each other (possibly by photocopying the work). This will put you well ahead of those people who do not create study groups and is a very powerful way to quickly become a test psychic.

Predicting what will be on your next test will be incredibly easy if you put these practices into place. Becoming a test psychic is easy once you know what to do. So hop to it!

A really effective way to prepare for your tests and exams is to become a test psychic and start predicting (with great accuracy) what the questions will be! A simple enough idea

Part 1 -  What Is Important

What do you believe is going to be on the test? There's no point focusing on "everything" because it will take too long to review it all. Try the process of elimination (and inclusion). Are there things that you have learnt that clearly would not be on the test or exam? Are there things you have learnt that obviously would be on the exam?

Your mission is to identify which sources will be more likely than others to be on the test. Here are some very likely sources:


Part 2 - Become Best Friends Forever With The Teacher (Not Literally)

Your great relationship with the teacher should be your biggest weapon. You can learn a lot from speaking to the teacher and gathering as much information as you can from them. Keep in mind that being in conflict with your teacher certainly won't assist you.

1. Go straight to the best source of all - the teacher. See if you can find out what material is going to be covered on the test by asking the teacher leading questions about what you are studying. "I am focusing on Chapter 12 - that's a really important chapter isn't it?" See what you can find out (no need to be sneaky you're just doing an investigation here). This should help you narrow the field of potential questions.

2. Find out what format the test will be in and allocate your study time based on that. A long answer test means you need to understand the broad details and to be ready to write - a lot. A short answer test means you need to know all the facts, figures and specific details of who, what, where and when.