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The Exam

Nine cards for one specific exam: what you know firmly, where the gap is, how to prepare, what the examiner is like, what comes up and how it ends.

Take it for one exam already on the calendar, not a general question about studying.

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How to read it

The top row is preparation: your present state, what you know firmly and where the gap is. The gap matters most here: that card deserves the time you have left. The middle row is the work and the setting: the method that suits you, the examiner, and the character of the question that will come. The bottom row is the day itself: what hinders, what helps, and the result. Read the result last and never alone: a weak result beside a strong helper card means you will pass but not by yourself, so a tutor, a consultation or an arranged retake is the honest reading.

Positions

  1. You before the exam

    The state you come to the exam in: focus, panic or a performance of calm.

  2. What you know firmly

    The part of the material you can lean on and need not go over again.

  3. Where the gap is

    The topic you keep walking around and on which a question will catch you.

  4. How to prepare

    The way of preparing that will work for you in the time that remains.

  5. The examiner

    Who will examine you and what they want: precision, confidence or living understanding.

  6. What comes up

    The character of the question: easy, contentious, needing an example, or unexpected.

  7. What hinders

    What lets you down on the day: lack of sleep, nerves, haste or someone's opinion.

  8. What helps

    Your support at the exam: a prepared section, a habit, a person or plain confidence.

  9. The result

    How the exam ends and how that result will tell on what follows.

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