| "Hard training easy battle" is the motto of the First | | | | no course is easy. Pay attention in class and also put |
| Battalion of Infantry, Michel Camp, Ghana. Passing an | | | | down necessary points to serve as a guideline to you. |
| examination with good grades is the aim of every | | | | Frame topics and sub-topics into questions to answer. |
| student. Undoubtedly, adequate preparation is the | | | | When exam is approaching, have time to practice your |
| accepted prelude to every examination no matter the | | | | questions by answering them as if you were in the |
| level or stage. Examination, like death and taxes is | | | | exam hall by timing yourself. Try and master the areas |
| always certain. So long as one remains a student, | | | | you think you are not conversant with before the |
| examination will always knock at one's door. One key | | | | exam day. Do not leave any topic out with the idea |
| to success in examination is adequate preparation and | | | | that it would not come during the exam. The area you |
| the other, uncompromising discipline with respect to | | | | leave might even be the area that would produce the |
| commitment to studies. Mediocrity and all forms of | | | | questions to answer and you might be in a big trouble |
| lackadaisical attitude must be relegated to the | | | | if you had left it. |
| background whenever one settles down to study. | | | | In the exam hall, take your time and carefully select |
| Preparation starts from planning, selecting appropriate | | | | your questions to be answered. Start answering from |
| study materials, organizing one's time and working | | | | the one you understand most. Most students make the |
| consistently and methodically. In the preparation, any | | | | mistake of leaving their best questions to answer last |
| one who wants a good grade should have both long | | | | only to be bitten by time. Also do not spend too much |
| term and short term goals. These plans should be | | | | time on one question since doing so might limit the time |
| made before or immediately one steps on a campus | | | | allotted to the other questions. |
| for studies. | | | | When answering, support your answers with relevant |
| The short term goals should be taken very seriously | | | | examples to show that you really understand what |
| since their accumulation lead to the achievement of | | | | you are writing. Also try and allocate some time to |
| long term goals. For example, a student who wants to | | | | read through your answers and do the necessary |
| complete a university course with a first class needs | | | | corrections since the probability of making mistake |
| to take his/her assignments and class exercises as | | | | during exams is very high. However, if you are double |
| well as mid-semester examinations very serious since | | | | sure that your work is mistake free, you can leave it |
| they form part of the final grade. | | | | without reading through but the best thing is to read |
| As part of the preparation, make a close or calculated | | | | through your work after answering before submitting it |
| survey of your syllabus or course content and make | | | | to the invigilator. |
| sure you cover it before examination time comes. | | | | Never rush to write quickly and leave the exam hall as |
| Remember that though group studies are good, the | | | | others do. Remember that a lecturer or teacher is too |
| best study method for effective comprehension and | | | | wise to give you three (3) hours for an hour's paper. |
| assimilation is self-directed private study. It is only during | | | | Try and utilize all the time in order to get an excellent |
| such times that it becomes easy to memorize certain | | | | work. |
| things. Remember that you are your own driver on the | | | | In conclusion, remember that unavailability of study |
| road of academics. | | | | materials, orchestrated by financial constraints, |
| You should also have a well-planned time table and | | | | shortage of available textbooks, and library among |
| make sure you keep to it. You can also devote more | | | | others should not discourage the pursuit of excellence |
| time to subjects or courses you deem difficult though | | | | but rather serve as a challenge for hard work. |