How to Prepare for Exams?

1. Have a Notebook in the Classroom for All Subjects

Keep notes of what you have done in the classroom. It is alright if they are not perfect as long as you have written down all the information given by the teacher.

2. Have a Notebook for Each Subject At Home

From the notebook you use in the classroom, write down the cleaned up version of the information on a new notebook. It is highly recommended that you should have a notebook for each subject. In this notebook, do write in depth of what you were taught and explain how to approach every difficulty.

By doing this you will remember where you struggled and why. Also, by doing this you will create a database which you can refer and study later. We believe studying from the quick notes you made in class can be when you will refer to study 3-4 months later.

3. Practice

We are lucky to be able to find almost everything we need on the internet. You can find many exercises to work on. We suggest that you try and solve all of them early on and then when exams are approaching, try focusing mostly with the ones you struggle with. Ask your teacher or tutor to recommend a study text book as it’s easier to find information in it which you might have forgotten.

4. Solve Past Papers

Solving past papers will help you to be prepared on what to expect in the exams. Most times, questions revised in class can be simpler than the questions that turn up in exams. An exam question can be a combination of 2 or more topics, e.g. algebra and trigonometry.

While we recommend solving past papers for practice, we do not recommend you to expect the same questions to turn up in your exam. Hence, it is always beneficial to practice a variety of questions and achieve confidence in various topics of the subject.

5. Find Your Strength and Your Weaknesses

Two months before the exam, identify the topics you have covered. Create a list of topics you are good at, of topics that can be tricky and of topics with which you really struggle. Spend more time topics you struggle and try to solve problems that you consider hard.

6. Get Your Level Evaluated Outside School

Often we think we are good at something merely because we are better at that particular thing than the people around us. However, you might still have a chance at getting even better. If you find yourself wanting to improve your understanding of few topics, you can always contact Tutor Science and we can provide you with several practice tests.

7. Last but Not the Least

Believe in yourself. But when required, question yourself when you see the need the improve anywhere possible. From our experience with students of Tutor Science, the more you try, the lesser are the chances of you to fail.

“If I don’t believe in myself, then every success brings me closer to failure. But if I believe in myself, every failure brings me closer to success!” – Tutor Science

Balancing School & Life

Often young adults are made to believe that they have it quite easy for them.

“All they need to do is study and get good grades. They don’t have other responsibilities like the adults”, says Sheila, mother of an 11 year old daughter.

While Sheila is right to an extent, the pressures on young adults are real. Juggling various things to do with friends, family and school, children are subjected to immense mental stress these days. At Tutor Science, we believe that successful education should not come at the cost of a child’s happiness. Hence, we bring forth few suggestions for young adults to help them balance all aspects of their life.

1) Don’t keep your concerns to yourself

As children grow older, it is common for them to stop sharing everything with their parents. But bottling your thoughts and concerns within you is not advisable. If there is something that is troubling you, learn to share it with a teacher, parent or a peer you trust.

2) Maintain a journal or a diary

Bursting with many thoughts about many things, our mind is a chaotic place. It is quite helpful to jot down those thoughts once a day to clear your head, making way for new ideas to come forth. It is hard to be creative with school projects and assignments when your mind is ruminating with the same old thoughts.

3) Have a schedule

Lives of students are busy, period. Aiming to meet deadlines for half a dozen of things at a time is tough. Which is why, we recommend you to mark the dates down in a physical or a digital calendar. Keep yourself accountable by also adding a daily or weekly to-do list to that calendar.

4) Set aside ‘Me-Time’

That’s right, your time. You can’t always be studying like Jack. All work, no play has made Jack a very dull boy. You need do other things with your time that have nothing to do with school and extracurricular activities. No, attending piano lessons that your parents signed you up for is not me-time. But sitting down to play a game you like or paint or even watch your favourite TV show is. Find out what makes you cheer up and find time to do it every now and then.

5) Don’t ride with the highs and lows

Life for everyone, irrespective of their age, is anything but constant. Every day will not be the same and why should it be? Some days are full of joy and some days are dreadfully boring or sad or full of work. Some days you get everything you want and some days you can be left disappointed.

But the secret to win at life, no matter how old you are, is to not let the highs get too high and not let the lows get too low. Get yourself a happy-go-lucky outlook to life, its free!

When you grow older, memories from school days will be some of the best memories of your life. Cherish them while you can and don’t fret about that assignment you need to finish in 2 days. You’ll get it done, trust us!

Review Time : Todoist

Students are in a constant mode of trying to meet deadlines. They need to get several things done on a daily basis and would benefit from a to-do list system to get their life sorted.

Hence, we present our review of the Todoist app, a reliable way to manage your daily tasks.

The Todoist app has a relatively simple interface and is packed with features. The user has an option to categorize their tasks according to the nature of the task i.e., work, personal, school, shopping, home etc.

You can also categorize your tasks using the three priority levels. This enables you to decide the order in which you need to be working on your tasks. The tasks can be dated, so you can surely add tasks that need to be done tomorrow or any day in the week.

The best part about the app is that it is available on several platforms. Whether you want to use the app on your laptop or your tablet or your phone, the choices are plenty. You can have this app installed on both your phone and your computer, so that you can update your to-do list at all times. The app is free to use with few features that require a purchase. However, the free version is just as good as most to-do list apps on the market and it does the job.

We highly recommend you give this app a try, especially if being more productive is one of your resolutions for the New Year. On that note, we wish you and your family a very happy new year!

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