FOR JAMB EXAMS
1. Avoid “expo” arrangements like plague. Most time they will fail you. You could also land in jail.
2. Visit your examination center at least once so that the examination environment on the exam day will not be completely new. Look at the classrooms. Feel the furniture. Imagine the crowd around on the exam day and see yourself there cool and calm.
3. The day before the exams ensure that all expected documents (original + photocopies) are with you pen/pencil, eraser, sharpener, log table are kept at a place where your kid brother or sister cannot get them.
4. On the day of the exam leave home very early.
5. Getting to the exam location, keep your composure. Other students are also as nervous as you are. The difference is your being able to keep calm despite the anxiety within.
6. Disregard those reading “textbooks” at the exam center. Check for the room where your number is located and determine all the time that you will not be affected by the exam atmosphere.
7. In the exam hall pray to God to lead you successfully. Read instructions carefully. Do not be disturbed by the ruffling sheets of students in a hurry or who might have started before you.
8. Push Maths aside until you have done other subjects thereby saving yourself time for Maths later. Use appropriate pencil.
9. ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. Avoid “no result situations”. Turn to kalo kalo in any emergency situation if need be.
10. Do not rush to be the first out of exam hall. Law students are usually guilt of this. But once finished, go home. Do not discuss the exam with anyone. Not even your closest friend!
FOR JAMB MATHEMATICS
11. Do you realize you have an average of only 54 seconds for each question?
12. Do you also realize that reading each question itself might take you up to10 and 24 seconds? So do you really have more than 30 seconds on the average for working each problem?
13. Actually there are four types of Jamb Maths questions:
(a). Those you can answer by mental elimination of options (options that are not likely to be the answer).
(b). Those you can answer by mental calculation.
(c). Those you can answer by written simplification
(d). Those you can answer only by "full working". These are otherwise called TIME WASTERS.
14. AVOID those under 13(d) like plague till you have answered all those under 3(a) – (c). Use kalo-kalo method for 3(d) usually close to the end of the examination. Don't pretend you can be a Professor of Mathematics because you don't have the time. This method might also be useful for all calculation-based subjects such as Physics, Chemistry or to some extent, Economics.
15. Where possible use methods and formulas instead of tables e.g. 882 – 122, = (88 + 12)(88 - 12) . 100 × 76
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