The Exam Skills Handbook: Achieving Peak Performance

Provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It gives practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies. This fully updated, two-colour edition includes two brand new chapters.

• Answers the questions students most frequently bring to exam preparation

• Easy to follow, step-by-step approach to developing a range of ideas, strategies and techniques to succeed in exams

• Designed so students can start at different places depending on their circumstances

• Provides pathways to simply passing exams through to achieving optimal performance using the concept of the 'exam zone'

• Practical step-by-step guidance on approaching revision and exams, including a series of structured revision sessions students can follow or adapt

• Activities and structured reflection to help students identify personal strategies, with checklists to help planning
• Uses a page by page design to enable students to find information quickly

Autorentext

Stella Cottrell was formerly Director of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leeds, UK, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at the University of East London, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Where Do I Start?.- Getting in 'The Zone' 1: Planning For Peak Performance.- Getting in 'The Zone' 2: Frames Of Mind For Peak Performance.- Exam Myths and Realities.- What Are Examiners Looking For? .- Managing Different Types of Exams .- Multiple Choice Questions.- Revision Strategies.- Memory: Remembering What We Want When We Need It.- Structured Revision Sessions.- Managing Stress.- Getting in 'The Zone' 3: Seeing Success.- The Exam .- Multiple Choice Question Exams (MCQs).- Managing Different Types of Exams.- Appendix 1: Alternative Arrangements for Students with Disabilities.- Appendix 2: Might I Be Dyslexic?.- Appendix 3: Sources of Help.- Appendix 4: 5 Point Plan for Peak Performance.- Appendix 5: Planning Checklists.- Appendix 6: Tracking Developments in an Area of Research.- References.- Index.