Showing posts with label exams. Show all posts
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20 April 2013

LAST MINUTE REMINDERS ON JAMB EXAM AND JAMB MATHEMATICS!




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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24 February 2013

WHETHER YOU PASS WAEC OR JAMB STARTS FROM HERE AND NOW! (2)

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50 SELF-REVIEW QUESTIONS BY STUDENTS FOR WAEC / NECO / JAMB EXAMS (2)




26.HAVE YOU CHOSEN A STUDY PARTNER OR STUDY GROUP?

27.HAVE YOU ENGAGED YOURSELF IN BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS ABOUT LIKELY QUESTIONS?

28.HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF ROLE-PLAYING IN PREPARING FOR EXAM THROUGH A GROUP?

29.HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNIQUE SEMINARS IN PREPARING FOR AN EXAM?

30.HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM JAMB SEMINARS THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO MAKE EDUCATED   GUESSES?



..mason college queen…

31.HAVE YOU MASTERED HOW TO UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD FACTS TO YOUR PAPER IN THE EXAM HALL FROM YOUR EXAM SCRAPBOOK THROUGH YOUR BRAIN?

32.HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD WHY THE TIME YOU USED IN PRACTICING PAST Q/As SHOULD BE SLIGHTLY LESSER THAN THE REAL EXAM?

33.HAVE YOU MASTERED THE 6-STEPS ANSWER PLAN FROM MATHS THEORY PAPERS?(THESE ARE STILL TO COME FROM EDUPEDIA) DO YOU KNOW YOU CAN STILL GET A REASONABLE GRADE WITHOUT GETTING THE REAL ANSWER IF YOU FOLLOW THE 6-STEP PLAN? HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD WHY ALL ROUGH WORK IN MATHS, PHYSIC & CHEMISTRY THEORY PAPERS HAVE TO BE TAGGED TO THE REAL ANSWERS?

34. HAVE YOU LEARNED THE ETIQUETTE OF MATHS?

35. HAVE YOU PRACTICED RELEVANT EXAMINATION TECHNIQUES?



…our beautiful, brilliant,entertaining senior prefect girls…an all-rounder!…now a medical student…

TO SATISFY WAEC/NECO/JAMB EXAMINERS

36.HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF EXAM INSTRUCTIONS?

37.HAVE YOU KNOWN HOW TO START RIGHT IN THE EXAM HALL AFTER READING THE INSTRUCTIONS? HOW TO SELECT AND ALLOCATE TIME THROUGH PROPER PACING OF YOURSELF?

38.HAVE YOU KNOWN HOW TO INTERPRETE QUESTIONS PROPERLY? DO YOU KNOW THE VOCABULARY OF QUESTION TYPES? (TO BE PROVIDED LATER BY EDUPEDIA)

39.HAVE YOU KNOWN HOW TO PRESENT YOUR ANSWERS NEATLY, TO MAKE THE EXAMINER FAVORABLE TOWARDS YOUR WORK?

40.HAVE YOU BELIEVED THAT THE QUANTITY OF ANSWER YOU GIVE IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS THE QUALITY?



…singing or praying?…very talented summer school student…

41.HAVE YOU MASTERED HOW TO PRESENT YOUR WORK THROUGH THE HANDOUT TITLED ‘HOW TO PASS EXAMS BY RELEVANT PRESENTATION OF WORK?’(STILL TO COME FROM EDUPEDIA)

42.HAVE YOU LEARNED HOW TO KEEP AN EXAMINER HAPPY BY NOT IRRITATING HIM THROUGH ILLEGIBLE HANDWRITING,WRITING IN THE MARGIN, ROUGH WRITING, INCORRECT NUMBERING, USING INK FOR DRAWING DIAGRAMS, HALF-FINISHED OR VERBOSE SENTENCES ETC?

43. HAVE YOU MASTERED THE RULES OF DRAWING DIAGRAMS IN AN EXAM? HAVE YOU LEARNED THAT YOUR DIAGRAMS SHOULD BE LARGE AND NOT SMALL MAY BE UP TO HALF OF THE PAGE? DO YOU KNOW THIS IS APPLICABLE TO GRAPHS TOO?

44.HAVE YOU LEARNED TO KEEP A RULER AND A COIN OR MATHS SET WITH YOU? WHAT ABOUT YOUR WRISTWATCH?

45.HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT ALL OBJECTIVE PAPERS IN WAEC OR NECO HAVE GOT TO BE ANSWERED USING SAME JAMB TECHNIQUES?



…because she was soooooo involved…very funny though…

46.HAVE YOU REALIZED THAT MATHS, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKED OUT IN THE HEAD AS OBJECTIVE EXAMS IS ALL ABOUT SPEED. DURING THE EXAMINATION, EXPECT TO  GRASP  RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FIGURES AND MANIPULATE THEM WITHOUT PUTTING PEN TO PAPER

47.HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT IF YOU FEEL CERTAIN ABOUT AN ANSWER YOU DON’T NEED TO PONDER FURTHER ON IT? YOU MUST ACCEPT THAT YOU GOT IT RIGHT AND MOVE TO THE NEXT. THIS IS MORE FOR MATHS, PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY QUESTIONS.

48.HAVE YOU ALSO LEARNED TO LEAVE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT HOLD YOU UP OR DOWN UNTIL YOU HAVE DEALT WITH THE EASIER ONES?

49.HAVE YOU MASTERED IN OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS HOW NOT TO  PUT THE ANSWER OF QUESTION 22 IN THE ANSWER SPACE OF 21 WHICH WAS DIFFICULT AND WHICH YOU SKIPPED TO ANSWER LATER?

50. HAVE YOU LEARNED NOT TO DISCUSS THE EXAM WITH ANY OTHER STUDENT ON THE MORNING OF THE EXAM OR AFTER THE EXAM ITSELF?



…involved and funny too…nice kids they were…

GOOD LUCK

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