Exam Strategies
Using flashcards, practice problems, etc. to retain and organize information are examples of what preparatory exam strategy?
What is practice testing? OR What is self-testing?
Before an exam, someone should utilize multiple calming and stress management techniques in their routine to optimize best test performance?
What is create a pre-test routine?
Aaron feels overwhelmed before taking his exam and notices his heart is beating rapidly. He remembers a helpful strategy from his classmates presentation and begins to breath in for 4 counts, hold for 4, exhale for 4, and hold for 4. What calming strategy is being utilized?
What is box breathing (breathing techniques)?
George III is using Quizlet to study his origins and insertions for his anatomy exam tomorrow. What type of strategy is George III using?
What is practice testing?
Students who are aware of one's thoughts and level of confidence prior to or during an exam can predict their outcome. What is this strategy called?
What is metacognitive monitoring?
What are mindfulness techniques?
Peggy is preparing for her anatomy exam. As she is reading her lab manual, she is verbalizing the materials to herself. After reading the material to back to herself, she identifies areas she needs to study more. What strategy is she using?
What is (concurrent) self-explanation?
Alexander has a test tomorrow morning and instead of worrying and having negative thoughts. He says to himself "I am not going to waste my shot", "I know my material", "I am going to do amazing on this exam!". What is alexander doing?
What is visualization?
What is an exam wrapper?
This strategy involves challenging negative thoughts by imagining your success.
What is visualization?
Eliza sat down to take her exam. She noticed she couldn't think straight because she was so anxious about how she would do on her exam. She decided to use a strategy she learned, where she starts relaxing her body by starting at her toes and working her way up to the top of her head. What strategy is she using?
What is full body scan (mindfulness techniques)?
Thomas has a test tomorrow. Throughout the week he has been staying up all night studying, skipping meals to study more, and skipping the gym. Thomas gets to his exam and fails. What should Thomas have done differently?
What is create a pre-test routine?
Teaching yourself the material AS you study (i.e. reading out loud or explaining) is known as which exam strategy?
What is (concurrent) self-explanation?
This calming strategy involves taking deep grounding breaths to help you feel calmer and more relaxed. Examples of this include box breathing (4-4-4-4), alternate nostril breathing, and 2-1-4 breathing.
What are breathing techniques?
Philip failed his most recent kinesiology exam. He goes to review his performance and reflects on the errors he had made. He recognizes that he performed poorly due to not preparing. Moving forward he will use alternative learning strategies. What did Philip use to aid in his reflection?
James feels stressed and overwhelmed the night before his exam because he has been trying to study everything at once. When he got his exam scores back he did not do as well as he hoped. For his next exam he decided to make a study schedule with short breaks in them. He also decided to make sure he went to bed at a good time the night before. What strategy is he using?
What is stress management?
Interleaved practice involves mixing subjects/topics. What are some primary benefits of this strategy?
What are (improved) retention, transfer knowledge, conceptualize concepts, academic/exam performance?
What are examples of stress management techniques that someone could use before a test?
What is getting a good nights sleep, exercising, having healthy eating habits, etc.
As Marquis is taking his final exam, he is second guessing the answers he has selected. As a result, he changes his answers. Due to this, Hunter received a poor grade on his final. What did Hunter fail to use?
What is metacognitive monitoring?
What is interleaved practice?