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Exam Strategies

Facilitator Name

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Poll: Please type your year and faculty (i.e. 1st year Commerce, 4th year General Biology, Masters of …, etc.).

Debrief.

Facilitator Name

Add Your Credentials HereE.g. MSc in Applied Psychology

Add Your Unit Name HereE.g. Counseling Services

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Exam Strategies: Avoid Exam Anxiety, Prepare Effectively & Perform Your Best

2010 – 2011

Adapted from the Learning Skills Workshops by UBC Student Development & Services

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What you’ll walk away with today:

1. Information to help control exam

anxiety.

2. Strategies for effective exam

preparation.

3. Tips to improve exam question

performance.

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Exam Anxiety: Self – Assessment

Complete and submit poll question.

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Think about the exam you are most concerned about right now. On a scale of 1-5 (where 1= totally relaxed and 5 = complete panic) how do you feel about that exam right now? Please respond and click submit.1 2 3 4 5

BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

Understand the Different Types of Questions that A Professor Could Ask

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What can you do to control exam anxiety?

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Exam Anxiety: Good or bad?

Stress or anxiety

Performance or efficiency

Yerkes-Dodson Law

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Fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. ~ Dale Carnegie

In-Class Oxygenator

1.Straighten Spine

2.Tense All Muscles

3.Breathe Deeply 3 Times

4.Repeat Step 2

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Please share one strategy you use to avoid exam anxiety.

Exam prep is easier when you…

1. Attend all classes.

2. Take good notes.

3. Manage your time well.

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UBC Learning Commons

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Taking Inventory

Size Up Your Exam – Consider what it might look like to know how and what

to study

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Why do you think it’s important to take inventory before you start studying for exams?

1. Get missing notes/info.

2. Decide what to study in depth.

3. Consider content your instructor emphasized.

4. Identify concepts you need help with.

5. Anticipate your exam format, possible questions.

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Do you know what your exam will look like?

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What is your most challenging upcoming exam? (i.e. Chem 260)

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Do you know if your exam...If your answer is yes, please check all that apply and click submit.is cumulative? is based mainly on lectures, the text, other readings? includes choices (i.e. choose 2 of 5 questions)? has short answer, essay, multiple-choice questions? provides important additional material (i.e. formula sheets)?

Practice exams

Ask alumni

See your prof or TA

Learning Commons

tutoring

study groups

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Strategies to achieve the outcome you want.

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Types of Exam Questions

1. Multiple Choice

2. True – False

3. Short Answer

4. Essay

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Your Turn

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exam question)

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Share the best tip you learned for tackling exam questions. Identify the type of exam question and one useful strategy.

Making A Study Plan

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Chat poll

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Share in the text chat box about some key elements that help you stay focused and in your optimal ‘study zone’.

What Are Your Priorities?Course Date of

ExamType of Exam Current

GradeDesired Grade

Study Details

BIOL 335 – Molecular Genetics

Note:Example only this is not the date of the actual exam!!

Dec 14th (8:30 –

11:30AM)

- Short answer and essay questions

- Cumulative - Worth 70% of final

grade

65% 75%

Note:Need 80% on final to achieve desired grade!!.

- high study priority

- lots of effort required

- need to condense all notes in next 3 days (~5hrs)

- review and set up time to meet prof/TA for help with questions

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Review and summarize all notes from

lectures/readings/assignments.

Condense all notes into 1-2 sheets

that you can reconstruct by memory.

Review previous exams and practice

answering questions.

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Get started in 5 minutes.

Ready, Set, Action

P e r s o n a l i z e Yo u r A c t i o n

P l a n

A c h i e v e Yo u r A c a d e m i c

G o a l s

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Action Items

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Did you learn at least one new thing, or gain one new piece of valuable information from this workshop that will help you to achieve your desired exam outcome(s)?Please respond and click submit.Yes No

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Share the best strategies you learned today. Please type a numbered list of 3 specific things you will do to help you succeed on your upcoming exams.

Stay In Touch

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