Hello Kyle, It's great to see that you're taking a proactive approach to your exam preparation. Your strategies of revisiting past chapters and readings, as well as managing your time effectively, are indeed crucial for success. Your idea of reviewing past discussion forms and learning journals is also excellent, as it allows you to revisit your understanding of the topics at the time and see how it has evolved. It's inspiring to see how you've overcome your test-taking anxiety. Your note-taking strategy is a proven method for retaining information, and it's great that you've found it helpful. Remember, it's also important to take breaks during your study sessions to avoid burnout. Wishing you all the best in your exams. You've got this! Best wishes for the exams

Re: Week 8 - Discussion Forum by Kyle Carson - Saturday, 1 June 2024, 8:27 PM Hello everyone, With our final exams coming up, it may get stressful and, for many of us also nerve-racking, two strategies I will use are studying past chapters and readings and to achieve this I will use the second strategy which will be time management, making an organized schedule to study past chapters and readings for next weeks exam will be crucial. Reading on my past discussion forms and learning journals could also be beneficial, to see how I would explain the topic for that chapter. I used to have test-taking anxiety when I was in high school, I never knew how to study properly for my exams and would just rely on a few things I could remember and luck, so when exam week would roll around, I would be scared to take them. However, now that I've studied more and know more about how to take exams and how to study for them properly, I am not as scared to take these upcoming ones. I intend to use the note-taking strategy to study for the exams as well, I found them very helpful and made me captivate more information when reading or watching a video. All the best.

Re: Week 8 - Discussion Forum by Anyieth Garang - Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 2:42 PM The preparation for exams begins right from the day class lectures commence. This preparation happen before exams through frequent attending classes, doing reading assignments and taking notes, doing formative tests as required, group participation to ensure you share your thoughts with other colleagues. After all the class activities that gear towards succeeding in tests or exams, I have to make sure I review notes from classes and research, arrive early to exam room or take test before deadline to avoid last minute panic. So during the exam or test, I have to read the entire questions to understand them well. This allows to identify the questions that can save your time and motivate for the other questions that make up the exams. Reading exam question twice or more helps identify stem of the question and this helps in thinking critically for right answers. Others include having reliable source of power and internet for online exams and tests. Anxiety is always experienced by anybody going to do any tests or exams, only for some people is excessive and start to dodge exams. I experience it but the first thing I do is to read while taking notes, seek clarification on topics that I do understand something either from instructor or student. This helps to avoid blaming myself. When approaching test, I review my notes and speak to myself that the exam or instructor isn’t there to fail me but to test my progress.

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