Practical planning steps
The preparation that you do for exams during the Semester can occur in 4 steps:
Step 1: Collect basic information about the exams you have in the Semester on your exam checklist:
Step 2: Identify the topics that are to covered by the exam by looking at :
Collect together information on each of these topics. Be sure you know what is important in each topic and that you understand it.
Step 3: Make a summary of each topic. The kind of summary you use will depend on:
For more information on summarising see the Learning Guide Summarising. Different models of summarising are shown in the section Forms of Notes in the online workshop Note-taking from reading.
Step 4: Develop a set of likely questions on each topic. Practice answering these questions to exam time.Back to: Before the exam: long term planning