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if you're like me your exam season
probably looks something like this two
weeks before exams you suddenly remember
you need to study and then quickly
realize
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i
understand
nothing
not only that but you start spiraling
and become an anxious puddle of tears
because you don't even know where to
start studying and you're feeling
completely overwhelmed
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are you kidding really it's true oh my
god
you got this fighting girl
so thankfully i did survive my final
season and ended up getting the score
that i needed so in this video i'll be
sharing with you guys what i do to get
a's on my exams and hopefully these tips
and routine will help you get the grades
that you want
let's get down to business
to defeat
exams i know i'm being over dramatic but
desperate times call for desperate
measures so to begin with the game plan
stage i first start off by getting to
know the exams dates resources available
type of exam percent of my grade etc and
it's just really helpful at this stage
to read through the syllabus see if
there's any other information about the
exams this way you'll have somewhere
where you can see clearly just how many
exams you have to study for and just
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noticed that my classes would either
not cover some material that was
ultimately on an ap exam or that it
would cover some material that ended up
not being tested on the ap exams so prep
books and also the websites that go
along the standardized tests like the
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also have their official pdfs that talk
about the exam so they're just a very
reliable standardized source to use
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work more efficiently so before i make
an actual game plan for my studying the
first thing i do is take a practice test
for each of the classes that i haven't
examined so once i have taken the
practice exam i write down my percent
score and then writing down the general
topics of the questions that i missed so
this helps me determine what are my
weakest areas and which chapters i need
to review first
and so now that i know which areas are
my weakest and roughly what my percent
score is if i just go in blind i
ruthlessly prioritize my time during the
exam weeks and leading up to them based
on the importance of each exam for my
grade and again the situation with how
prepared i am even without studying so i
know this might sound pretty ruthless
but i ultimately figured out this system
when i was taking a ton of classes in
high school and i realized that i simply
could not prioritize every single exam
equally so just as an example my senior
year i think i had like 10 ap exams and
i also had three dual enrollment exams
in the same semester so i had an insane
amount of exams and one of the classes i
think it was sas statistics i did a
calculation and realized if i just got
above a 42
on the exam i would still have an a in
the class so i realized that i was just
pretty much not going to study for that
exam at all and prioritize my other
exams so sometimes you do have to be
strategic about it and if you just don't
have enough time for all of your classes
and all your exams you need to choose
which exams are the most important to
you which classes you want to prioritize
depending on maybe your major or your
goals ultimately and finally also based
on your current grades in the classes as
well as how well you did on the practice
exam so you take this into account you
determine the grade the minimum grade
that you need on the exam in order to
get the ultimate grade that you want in
the class you look at the grade that you
got on the first practice exam that you
took you look at how many weeks or how
many days you have left and how many
exams you have and then you use all the
things you did during the three previous
steps to finally determine what is your
calendar and schedule for the exams
roughly how many hours you have between
them and which ones you want to
prioritize it may sound ruthless but in
my experience it's very effective and
essential especially when you have a ton
of exams
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so now it's time for actually studying
so the first thing that i usually do is
i go over the week areas that i didn't
do that well on during the practice exam
and i take very minimal basic notes so i
pretty much just read through the
chapter and just take notes on the
things that i remember i missed on the
exam or that i genuinely just didn't
know and if you don't have time to read
through the chapters or they're just
very very long i recommend reading the
end of the chapter summary they usually
include all of the main vocab as well as
the major concepts so once i've gone
over the chapters that i determined i
needed to review i watched the review
lecture if there is a review lecture
since this can be extremely helpful in
understanding the psychology of the
professor and understanding which topics
the professor prioritizes as well as any
other useful information they might slip
to the students during the review
lecture
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so stage three is making exam summary
pages so i already mentioned this in my
previous exam video if you want to check
it out but basically this is just where
you write down whatever you highlighted
and still struggle with onto one two
three four pages so that you can
constantly review them and reread them
the day before and the morning of the
exam also i don't always hand write my
exam summary pages a lot of the times if
it's math or like for example my
marketing class that i had last semester
i decided to type out and then
ultimately print the pages the exam
summary pages instead of handwriting
them and this is just easier especially
when there's lots of charts or diagrams
and it's just easier for you to type
instead of handwriting it so now that i
have my exam summary pages ready and i
have gone over all my weak areas i just
keep doing practice tests and quizzes as
many as possible until the exam comes so
whenever i miss a question i just write
it down and then also write down an
explanation of it and if i need to i
look it up in the textbook again or in
my notes go over again that topic or
that particular vocabulary term and make
sure i 100 understand it and again the
more practice questions you do the
better it helps you understand the
psychology of the professor or the
college board or whoever is
administering and making the exams
because after a while you start seeing a
pattern in how the professor or the exam
creator thinks and it will help you
during the actual exam to understand how
to approach the questions
sorry
good girl
fighting
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who's mine now gonna go you are the
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