Pay attention to the following Important Hot Tips:
1. The revision period is the best time to use past question papers for your studies. Therefore get enough past questions papers on all your subjects or courses.
2. Get foolscap papers or use big exercise book
or jotter to practice some
questions in Math, Physics, Further Math, Chemistry and other subjects. If your textbook lacks comprehensive practice questions, borrow one from your school library or nearby library as supplementary.
questions in Math, Physics, Further Math, Chemistry and other subjects. If your textbook lacks comprehensive practice questions, borrow one from your school library or nearby library as supplementary.
3. Begin to solve the past questions from the very easy problems on to the more difficult ones. Learn to itemize crucial
points when practicing with essay questions in other subjects not involving
calculations.
4. If any calculation question proves difficult or confusing, get your textbook and search for a worked example
similar to that difficult one and follow the solution step by step. Try to fit
the solution of the difficult problem into the structure of that similar worked
example. You will get the problem solved.
5. Remember that you can use the same equation to solve two questions if the quantities you wish to determine are
different in each question. Take this equation for instance V=U+at, you can
solve for V if other quantities are supplied. You can as well solve for any of
the others U, a, t when the rest of the quantities are made available.
6. Examiners sometimesrepeat questions
from a previous test paper in the next examination of the same paper by changing the quantities required. That is why emphasis seem to be laid on the
use of past question papers for revision. Got the point, don’t overlook the use
of past question papers.
7. Follow your intuition and solve all the very easy questions first to get 50% of the score, then look for and solve
other easier ones to add 20%. When you try the harder ones, you are looking to
add 10 – 15% to boost your score. Do not ignore this strategy in Physics, Math,
Chemistry, and Further Math or even in all the subjects or courses.
8. In solving mathematics or algebra questions, begin with introductory topics as indices, logarithm, fractions,
percentages, ratio and proportions, ordinary equations,
quadratic equations, simultaneous equations and similar ones. These topics help build up your scores and confidence as well. Then move on to the more difficult ones.
quadratic equations, simultaneous equations and similar ones. These topics help build up your scores and confidence as well. Then move on to the more difficult ones.
9. Never begin solving math from harder ones because it will, apart from eating up your time also affect
your confidence negatively. That’s because when you’re running out of time and
can’t finish up to hit high scores panic sets in and affect every other
questions you attempt even if the question is of the simple easy ones.
10 Treat questions in other subjects the same way
you treat math questions so that you will become an all-rounder in your
subjects or courses.