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How to ace your Final Exams

Mirra Hays
January 30, 2012

Finals begin tomorrow! Students need to be prepared to tackle the tests each teacher hands you. What will you do to prepare? Here are some tips on how to do your best:

On StudyBlue.com, you can make note cards online and make quizzes to take. The site can also show you a percentage that you will most likely get on your test based on how many questions you have correct. You can view a graph that shows your progress visually.

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Your state of health matters when taking a test. You need to be at your top potential to do your best. Here are some tips to help your brain perform at its best on a test day.

Sleep well in order to restore your brain. Sleeping helps to retain the information you have studied. It also helps you to keep focused during the day. Getting a good night’s rest the night before would be wiser than staying up until midnight to study.

Information from: www.testtakingcentral.com/the-importance-of-sleep/

When eating a healthy breakfast, proteins are your best bet. Unhealthy breakfast choices, which are anything high in sugar or carbohydrates, or no breakfast at all can leave you feeling sluggish and uneasy.

Read over all of the notes and homework from the semester. Most likely your teacher will use questions that are similar to what has been covered previously.

If you find yourself feeling stressed during the test, take a second to slow down and breathe. If you calm down and take your time, the answers will come easier to you.

According to live science.com, chew gum during the test. It sharpens the mind by delivering blood to your head because of your chewing motions.

After the test, if you have time, review your answers. Sometimes you can make silly mistakes that could negatively affect your grade if you forget to correct them.

On multiple choice tests it’s usually best to go with your first guess. Sometimes you can doubt yourself and get it wrong.

Another way to make sure that you get the question right is by crossing out obvious wrong answers, and then going from there. This is called “The Process of Elimination.”

Make sure to re-read the questions and answers before you come up with an answer. It’s a common mistake to read the question incorrectly.

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About the Contributor

Mirra Hays, Reporter

One day you’ll be walking through a bookstore, and an author’s name will catch your eye. The name will be Mirra Hays, the writer of the most riveting mystery novels of her time. But for now, Mirra is a regular sophomore who dreams of her future as an author. She loves English, and although she is only just beginning her sophomore year, she knows that it’s going to be her favorite class. She also has become enamored with journalism, which she discovered caters to her love of writing just as much if not more than English does. She’s really excited about what she’s going to be doing in the class this year, especially all the writing opportunities. Mirra has never been more excited for a school year than she is this year. She just moved out of her old house this summer, and she also got braces, so she feels like everything is new. She hopes to get more story ideas and writing opportunities, and she knows that this year will be best for those interests. Mirra feels like her sophomore year is a new start, and she is going to make the best of it.