
Here are some tips that will help you better your rank. All you need to do is put in some hard work.
1. Read your everyday lessons, one at a time, slowly. Even if it’s hard to understand, it’ll became easier the second time you read it.
2. Friends may tease you for ‘mugging – up’ a lesson. But that shouldn’t worry you. Study your questions and answers by-heart.
3. Start with the hardest subject – that is, the one you had scored least in the previous exam. Keep the easiest subject for the last.
4. Make a time-table, allotting hours for each subject. Stick to this time-table strictly.
5. Do not stay up late. Finish studies by 9 pm. Relax by chatting to your parents about your day in school.
6. Wake up early the next morning (say by 5 am), and revise your subject thoroughly. Practise, diagrams, if any, once again.
7. At the exam, table, be calm and steady. Don’t hurry up and finish in one and a half hours, if you have two and half hours time. Try to finishin such a way that you can check the answers for the last fifteen or twenty minutes.
8. Don’t miss writing any answer in the paper.
9. In Maths, allow yourself a set time for each section in the paper.
10. Write neatly, and in a good handwriting that is readable. It is important to impress the examiner with a well-presented paper.
V.Manju, Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Rajapalayam.
(Gokulam September ’95)