How Do You Prepare For An Essay Exam?
• Collect yourself and your notes. This is to check your preparedness for the coming exam. If you’re distracted and not organized for the task at hand, your studying will not be productive. • Be sure that you take good notes ahead of time in class to be as prepared as possible. • Turn off your cell phone and any distractions in order to concentrate completely on the task at hand. See: How To Focus. • Skim over your class notes, papers, and textbook. Decide right off whether or not you have enough information to write a decent essay or if you will need to gather further details. • Look through your book to find more information, or, if necessary, get in touch with a friend and compare notes. • Make up possible questions the essay might address based on your notes. This will enable you to prepare for possible essay topics. • Take into account the things that you’ve learned and think about topics that were given extra focus during lessons. See: Think Ahead • Plan out an essay for each top
