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 through to last minute revision strategies. This fully updated, two-colour edition includes two brand new chapters.
- 285 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Where do I start?
- Chapter 3 Getting in ‘the zone’ (i): Planning for peak performance
- Chapter 4 Getting in ‘the zone’ (ii): Frames of mind for peak performance
- Chapter 5 Exam myths and realities
- Chapter 6 What are examiners looking for?
- Chapter 7 Revision strategies
- Chapter 8 Memory: Remembering what we want, when we need it
- Chapter 9 Structured revision sessions
- Chapter 10 Stress, health and performance
- Chapter 11 Getting in ‘the zone’ (iii): Seeing success
- Chapter 12 The exam
- Chapter 13 Multiple choice question exams (MCQs)
- Chapter 14 Managing different types of exam
- Appendix 1 Alternative exam arrangements for students with disabilities and/or dyslexia
- 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
- Appendix 7 Answers to activities
- References
- Index
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