Beat Your Examiners With Exam Techniques
At that time I was snowed under with study, and my headmaster said that I had as much chance as the Man in the Moon of passing three Ordinary level GCE subjects. He was right at that time. It didn t matter how much study I did, term exam questions were always about stuff I hadn t studied. Then I learned that you perform best in an exam if you know more about exams rather than about the subject of the exam. I liked that. What were the results. I passed eleven GCE ordinary level subjects. When artistic talent was handed out, my brother got it all, and there was none left for me. I panic every time I am asked to do a stick-drawing. However in the GCE exam, my brother set out to do good art, and I used exam techniques to get good marks. To my great glee I got a better pass mark than my brother did. I was sure that proved that exams are unfair, but remained very smug. I tried the exam techniques in my book. My wife assured me that I would have passed - without knowing anything about it. Then came a time that I studied maths again, and I was...