Exam-taking techniques

What are your preferred methods for taking mathematics and science tests and examinations?
What is the speed at which you do your test problems? Do you try to speed up your thinking processes so that you think extremely fast or do you just proceed at a normal pace? And do you concentrate or focus very intently at the problems and try to visualise the problems in your head? Thanks.

i answer them like i answer every other math question.


correctly.

>>1
you do past exam papers over and over, and hopefully the same one will pop up in your real exam

Learn your shit, know WHY everything is done - know how to derive all the formulas you will need.

You shouldn't ever have to read your cheat sheet/ formula sheet to answer a question. You need to know the formula you need and only look at the sheet to verify that you wrote it down.

Do LOTS of practice.

Most importantly start studying weeks before your exam.

Sleep - well if you know your shit then sleep is irrelevant (you'll probably lose the bonus, thinky thinky marks though). If you stay up all night craming, make sure to focus on formulas and how to solving methodology (although to be honest this rarely works)

Don't cheat, even if you know dick all. Its not worth it.

>>1
What are your preferred methods for taking mathematics and science tests and examinations?
Playing games, not studying, then going to exams and passing them miraculously. Works sometimes. Fun guaranteed.

>>2

You sound exactly like my calc teacher. EXACTLY like him.

>>6
Maybe if you did your homework when I assigned it you would have the ability to sound like me as well.

>>7

If you're the person I think you are, then I'm not the person you think I am.

>>8
If you're not the person I think you are, then I'm not the person I think I am.

>>9

If you're not the person you think you are, then I think that you're not the person I thought you think I think you are.

If you're not the person you think that you're not the person I thought you think I think you are, then I think that you're the person I thought to think that you are, when you were thinking that you thought I think I am.

>>4
>Learn your shit, know WHY everything is done
I want to emphasize this because this is all that is required to get through a test, and truly, if you thoroughly comprehend the subjet matter at hand, not only will you pass it but you will do very well and finish fast. It is more than just 'cramming' and scanning over text just to get it read, you have to apply it to your cognative thinking machine and make sure that that which you are reading is fully understood at its fundamentals, basically know WHY everything is what it is.

The absolute easiest way to accomplish this is to pay attention when it is told to you if it is, you have to listen to when it is described to you by someone who DOES comprehend the concepts through and through, as the most likely case is that they will be able to explain the matter much better than a static volume of text. If you have any questions at all about how to get from point a to the completely developed topic, then ask it, if you do not make sure that you get the information about what you don't understand when you can, then you will be at a loss in fully knowing it, so it is completely up to you to make sure that you GET that knowledge with the resources available.

The hardest way to accomplish this is to scan a large volume of text that may or may not contain the part of the concept you're looking for, but also contains a lot of stuff you either know or do not need to know, requiring you to have to waste precious information processing time in order to locate what you DO need. Remember this also, not only is it pure chance that the published text will contain the facts about what you're looking for, but it is also possible that when it does attempt to instill into you the knowledge of the element, that it may fail at getting the concept across to you, this is why the interactive learning element of the teaching person is invaluable so do not waste to opportunity.

>>12
You have to memorise something. The idea that it should be instinctive like the maths you have known since grade school is a romantic image, it's not all about exercising your cognitive reasonning skills. The reason why grade school math is almost instinctive is because you have spent so long doing it, it has become completely memorised..

My math text books were organised into chapters each with their own subject. I went through every type of question and listed down everything I needed to know in order to answer that question. That was the cognitive reasonning part of mathematics solved, but come the exam would I prefer not to have to reason everything through again so I tediously memorised them all. By doing questions without any aid and memorising those things on my list.

My advice:  A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

>>11

.....PANCAKES.

I answer them like I answer every other math question.

Correctly.

>>16
0/0=x
Find x.

>>17
The correct answer is that this form is indeterminate.

the correct answer is leave and sign up for a class that's actually useful like chemistry

suck off someone for some adderall

I quickly do all the problems in half the time, then slowly go over each and every one of them (i skip the probs i didnt know how to do for that time)

I masturbate to keep relaxed whenever I encounter a tough question

I answer them like I answer every math question. Correctly.

>>23
What does 1/0 equal to?

>>24
You cannot evaulate 1/0, but the lim x->0 of 1/x is inf.

Finally I hear the magic word, infinite *fap fap fap*

More economic effort and man hours have been lost to answerring 1/0 than the cost of ww1 and ww2 combined.

>>27
Considering I post on 1/0 during work hours, there may be some truth to that.

>>27
People who argue about high school math on the internet are worth $0/hour.

>>29
It's not argue, it's trolling, my friend

>>30
Ah right, and trolls' time is quite valuable. I stand corrected.

I've found that I've gotten the best results out of cheating. Cheating requires much less time devoted than slaving over that job training scam you call college. Instead of devoting hours of time to classes which do not pretain directly to your major- you cheat. Plus, since there is no god if you have at least a small amount of wit you will succeed. Unless you're a fag. Which you are. FAG! har ar ar awer hawr

>>32
Obviously you have no choice in the matter.

Obviously you're a gay.