Realistic Tools for Real Students

Exam/Study Prep

Walk in and out of your exam feeling

confident.

However, with some smarter studying habits, and a look through our

Time Management Toolkit & Note Taking

Toolkit, you’ll be well on your way to confident

exam writing!

There are no quick, magic

tricks for acing an exam.

First thing’s

first:

Where to Start?What do you find is the biggest struggle when it comes to preparing for exams?

i.e. What prevents you from getting 100% on all your exams?

Gravity FormO You take hap-hazard notes in

class, so when it comes time to study it takes a lot of effort.

O You struggle when it comes time to synthesize the information and find the big ideas

O You find it difficult to find the time or discipline to sit down and actually do the work

Take a look through our Time

Management Toolkit to ‘up your

game’ in: Beating

procrastination Mastering organization

Getting more done in less time

Time Management Help

Time Management

Toolkit

Feel the last-minute panic far too often?-We’re here to

help

Take a look through our Note Taking Toolkit to ‘up your game’

in:

Efficient note taking Different methods of

note taking for technical vs. non-technical classes

Finding general themes

Note Taking Help

Note TakingToolkit

Are your notes a useless pile of

rubble?-Turn that mess

into success

Start With A Plan!------------------------------

The key to effective exam studying is to have a 1 page study guide that you use to organize your study session

Gravity FormO Do You feel prepared when you sit

down to study? How do you know what to focus on when studying?

What does that plan look like?

Start by defining what will be on the test:

What percentage is the test worth?

What chapters are you responsible for?

What type of questions will be on the test?

What type of themes does your professor tend to focus on?

Gravity FormO Can you think of anything that you

could add to this plan to make it more effective?

Birds Eye View

---------------------------Avoid getting lost in the small details of your notes by

writing out the major headings in a chapter, and trying to summarize that idea in 1

sentence

Developed By Nick Thornton,

Sam Wempe, and Gillian Corbo

Chapman Learning Commons Assistants