How to Study for Exams in One Day?

Introduction

Many colleges release their examination timetable many weeks before the scheduled examinations to prepare students for the exams adequately. Most colleges give at least two weeks prior notice before the exams.

However, many students leave their preparations for the final week to their reviews, while a few persons find themselves unprepared on the last day to the exam. Do you also have only 24 hours to D-day? Are you wondering if there’s something you can do to pull through?

This article will guide you and help you utilize these 24 hours, like two weeks, and get ready for your exams tomorrow. Let’s get started!

Calm Down, and Someone wrote this: Worry and anxiety will only keep you running on a treadmill. You’ve got only 24 hours, and worrying over the situation will steal many minutes from what is left. It will help if you calm your nerves and mind.

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It would be best if you stopped thinking about what you could have done right, and focus on what you can do now. You can take a quick nap, call a friend, listen to a favourite song, watch a comedic video clip, shower, listen to the news, or munch your favourite breakfast. Do anything that will make you relaxed and give you control over yourself.

Motivate Yourself

Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.” Every positive thing begins from the mind. It would be best if you changed your mind-set about the situation, and push yourself to go across the finish line.

Take a deep reflection of other difficult times you succeeded, and remind yourself that you can do it again. Talk to a friend or coach, read one or two motivational quotes, or watch a motivational clip. Get your mind willing, ready, and motivated for the task ahead.

Make Decisions: Take Actions

“Motion looks like action, but action brings the results.” You need to make critical decisions and act on them immediately. Decide on the place you will read, the time you will spend there, the materials you will need, and who you will need to help you.

However, don’t sit down there, thinking about all the right things you will do. Take action! Take a pen and write down all your decisions, and then make contact to know if your preferred reading spot is free and convenient.

Get all the materials you will need—a timer, the course syllable, your notebooks, your textbooks, the course past questions, and a lunch pack or snack. Also, make contact with the persons you will need to help you and have a scheduled appointment with them. You’re now set to go! 

Work Smart: Work Hard

Congratulations! You are about to begin the journey to stardom! Before you start reading, cut out every distraction, especially your mobile phone. Switch it off! Now, you’ve not got all the time—you need to work hard and work smart. 

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Here are eight Hard-work; Smart-work Study Tips study for an exam in one day:

1. Study Only For The Exams

Many students lose focus when reading, especially when they encounter new concepts, exciting topics, and debatable facts. However, you need to be focused on the exams, and forget about any other thing. Skim through the course syllable and then your lecture notes to highlight exam-focused areas and topics.

You can also check past questions and familiarize yourself with the exam trend over the years. This will help do a focused study on the exams and keep you from straying into research areas and things you find fascinating. As a general rule, always remember that you are not studying to learn anything new. You’re only reading to pass your exams. 

2. Create A Personalized Study Guide

Every course comes with a few easy topics and a few hard issues. College tutors frequently use a teaching guide to teach these topics irrespective of how difficult they are. You need to create a personalized study guide that will help you achieve your goal.

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It is advisable to arrange the topics on the syllable in such a way that one or two easy questions will always succeed a hard subject. This will keep your momentum alive as the easy topics will motivate you after the struggles you will encounter with the hard issues.

3. Use Your Textbook Wisely

You don’t have enough time to go through all the content in your textbooks. Simply stick to your lecture notes, and look for summaries in your books. Have an eye for charts, tables, introductions, side notes, boxes, diagrams, figures, and conclusion. This will help you cover more topics and read-only essential things.

4. Use Mnemonics, Mind Maps, and Charts 

Make short notes using mnemonics, mind maps, and charts. These are memorization techniques that will help you remember bulk texts easily. However, these memorization techniques work when you take some time to understand the concepts behind their representations.

5. Say It Out

We remember what we hear than what we read. Say it out. You can talk to a group of friends or a friend. You can do a recording with your smartphone, or you can just talk to the air. Whatever way you choose, say it out.

6. Use Past Questions: Add Questions

Before you start answering the course’s past questions, add your suspected items to the list and answer them. Answering previous questions helps you master everything you need to include in each answer and how to use it wisely during the examination.

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7. Use the Exam Hall

Using the exam hall is an ancient Greek public speaking technique that most speakers use to recollect their points. Just attach an end (imaginary) on every item in the room and use them to remember them during the exams.

8. Everything In-Between

You need to take intermittent breaks, rest well, eat well, and sleep well to be your best on D-day. Take about 10-15 minutes to break after every one hour of study, eat light foods, and rest for at least four hours. We recommend that you sleep around 10 pm and wake up at 3 am to review your entire study if your exam is 8 am on the same day.

Conclusion

You can do it if you set out to do it now. Good luck with your exams tomorrow. Kindly drop your testimonial in the comment section after the reviews.