Hey guys what's up Stefanie the English coach here from englishfulltime.com
in this video I am going to share with you the easiest way to pass an exam okay
so there's a few things that I'm going to say about how to do this but for the
record I've pretty much passed every exam I've ever taken with flying colors
passing exams never was a problem for me unless you guys saw the video that I
made about the easiest way to fail it an exam I will go ahead and link it for
you but yes if you want to know the one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made
on an exam and why I failed go ahead and watch that video but in this video we
are going to talk about the easiest way to pass an exam okay so first things
first if you want to pass an exam with flying colors you have to understand
that your being tested on very specific things okay and most of the time it's
not really about your creativity it's about showing the teacher or whoever is
giving you the exam that you have mastered these specific skills that they
want to know that you have mastered okay it's kind of like a weird cycle or a
circle it just goes around like this they you need to master this do you take
the test to show them that you have mastered this I mean that's pretty much
all there is to it okay so first you need to know exactly what is going to be
on the exam okay you can't just guess you can't just go into the TOEFL the
IELTS or any kind of English exam and go oh my gosh I hope I pass no that's dumb
that's stupid I mean you really shouldn't do that and it's silly because
people do that all the time they just go oh you know I haven't really been
understanding what the teacher has been talking about this week but we have an
exam on Friday and I hope I pass that you guys I feel like I shouldn't even
have to say this that's an awful strategy so your first your first
assignment okay in order to pass an exam with flying
colors is to know exactly what you're going to be tested on it's your
responsibility to figure this out because let's just be honest sometimes
teachers aren't very good at explaining things sometimes
they don't teach well or sometimes you know you just don't understand the way
your teacher teaches maybe you have a fantastic teacher but you have a
different learning style so step one you need to figure out what you're going to
be tested on and then you need to investigate each area each aspect of
whatever that is thoroughly on your own using Google using YouTube using the
material that the teacher gave you what I have found that is that for me I learn
a lot better by you know investigating on my own using the Internet not
necessarily the materials that the teacher gives sometimes I will use
whatever the teacher or whoever is testing me on whatever gives but for the
most part I just figure out the important names dates events or whatever
it is that I'm going to be tested on subjects themes and then I go and I do my
own investigation because then you become like a mini expert in whatever
that subject is and you prepare yourself so much more for a test okay so for
example I had this teacher in college for one of my Spanish classes actually -
she taught like Spanish literature ancient Spanish literature and the
history of the Spanish language her classes were pretty boring all she would
do was sit in front of the class with her handwritten notes and she would just
lecture for an hour and 20 minutes for every single class there was no class
discussion there were no visual aids nothing to make the learning interactive
and interesting so all the students would pretty much just take notes on
whatever she said and I'm assuming that when it came time for the midterm or the
final exam they just studied their notes and took the test but that is not what I
did I didn't take notes on every single thing that she said I would just listen
for whatever I felt was an important point and then I would write I would
write it down okay like again names dates themes whatever and then I go home
and I would research it so for example one of the events that we studied was
the Spanish Inquisition and I can't tell you how many hours of YouTube videos I
watched all about the Spanish Inquisition
now that interesting thing is when our teacher
would talk about it in class it was pretty boring because of the way she
would lecture but then when I would go watch these videos on YouTube I was like
oh my gosh this is you know both horrific and interesting all at the same
time so I just got so interested I would look into it more and more and then when
it came time to take the exam it was a written exam and there were probably
like 15 to 20 questions that I had to answer in like mini essay format or
paragraph format by the time I got the exam I knew so much about everything
that I passed that exam with flying colors I just knew exactly what I was
doing exactly what I was getting tested on and when the teacher got my exam and
you know put that big fat a plus on it she also wrote something along the lines
of wow you really know a lot about this stuff and I was like yeah because I
investigated it and I looked it up and I made the mistake of watching videos
about the torture devices that were used in the Spanish Inquisition I don't
recommend doing that you guys because I seriously cried after watching those
videos like I said horrific very sad time in human history I don't recommend
looking that up but you know it helps me understand the time period what was
going on with the different people hierarchies etc so yes in the end it
worked out and I passed that exam I also did something very similar in high
school when I had to take a chemistry class the teacher you know I didn't like
her teaching style I thought the class was boring I thought the subject was
pretty boring they made us use this big fat college textbook because it was an
advanced class they made us use his big fat textbook
that had writing that was about that small so there was tons of information
to go through and in that for those exams and so that particular class my
strategy was just pretend to I would pretend to love chemistry even though I
didn't love it because I was like look I realized that if you're not interested
in a subject it's very hard for you to master that subject so even if you have
to pretend to be interested until you do become interested it's worth it and
usually you know things are pretty interesting we just have to be taught in
a specific way or experienced things in a specific way whether it's through
discussion or videos or documentaries or whatever for us to become interested
so to recap my methods for passing any exam is simply to know as much as the
teacher knows about the subject or more if I can I really try to become an
expert I try to enjoy the subject even if I don't really enjoy it I just try
because if not it's going to be really boring and the best way I have found for
me to enjoy a subject is for me to research it to look up blog posts about
it to look up YouTube videos to look up testimonials from people that are
talking about you know their experiences or what they've learned or stuff like
that so anyhow I hope this helps you guys with the exams that you guys have
to take for English don't rely on your teacher to just teach you everything
okay become a little scientist a little investigator whatever you want to call
it look stuff up and also if you have any strategies that you would like to
add on how to pass exams feel free to add them in the comments okay so
everyone that reads the comments is going to get more tips okay that's all
guys and I will see you in another video bye hey guys thanks so much for watching
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