How to Balance Competitive and Board Exam Preparation?

How to Balance Competitive and Board Exam Preparation

Exam Research

First and foremost, preparing for any examination means investigating what subject matter is covered in their syllabus, let it be UPSC syllabus, SSC or any other syllabus for that matter. And at what depth and level of detail so as to help candidates choose what field they want to study in, what tasks they must practice and what skills they must cultivate etc. Consider this the stage in which you learn the lay of the land, and decide which features and contours will involve the most effort and time to cover entirely.

Exam Preparation

After mapping out the territory you need to cover in your learning, activities, and studies, you must dig in and start learning what you have never learnt before, or maybe refresh what you learned long enough ago. This is where you march through the subject matter involved in preparing for an examination, and to becoming familiar enough with it to withstand the difficulties of exams.

Assessment of Readiness

To know what you know and what you don’t, practice exams are most helpful in identifying your mistakes and errors. Repeat this process as often as needed until you can always pass practice examinations with a comfortable margin in marks.

Personal Preparation

Activities such as these will help you feel and perform at your best when you go to the testing center. In general, the purposes of these tips are to help you in understanding you must learn, and must do, to prepare effectively for an exam.

Tips to follow while preparing for your exams

● Confidence: Every student needs confidence if She/he wishes to score maximum marks in CBSE examinations. Confidence always gives you the will to do anything in life to feel like over the world. You can very much do that and achieve the best results marks in examinations.

● Students must take monthly school exam or unit test exams very seriously if they are to get good results. Preparing well in advance for final exams will be less stressful in spite of covering syllabus at the last moment.

● Students should note the important chapters which have the maximum weight-age of marks and give more importance to it.

● Avoid covering whole syllabus by cramming, this won’t help in any way instead it will only make you forget things and feel stressed in exams.

● Avoid discussing question which you may have left with your schoolmates, friends or teacher, just try to keep a cool mind and prepare well before the exams.

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Kevin Ronith Kumar

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