I'd like to hear what people suggest doing on the day/night before the test. Should I review any weak areas? Or just put the books down for the entire day and get some rest?
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Night before the test
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Just chill. Watch a movie. Play guitar. Get up fairly early that day, so you can get to bed fairly early that night, and get a solid 8 hours in.
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Pls don't read anything now.. it won't help u in any way
Instead u should just read AWA topic esp Issues one and then if u see any abstract topic just think of couple of sentences on it ..
Do few Idioms
Refer to couple of hard Quant formula
Just check couple of SC rule and for last 5-7 hour just throw away ur book have a good dinner or watch good inspirational movie like rocky.. listen to couple of motivational song while on ur way to test .. thats it
These think will help u in ur exam.. also while answering any q's dnt even think @ ur final score .. ue thinking in exam shud be like... let the final score be whatever I want to give my best shot to this q's infront of me in 2 min time
All the best ... my good wishes are wid u!!!
Instead u should just read AWA topic esp Issues one and then if u see any abstract topic just think of couple of sentences on it ..
Do few Idioms
Refer to couple of hard Quant formula
Just check couple of SC rule and for last 5-7 hour just throw away ur book have a good dinner or watch good inspirational movie like rocky.. listen to couple of motivational song while on ur way to test .. thats it
These think will help u in ur exam.. also while answering any q's dnt even think @ ur final score .. ue thinking in exam shud be like... let the final score be whatever I want to give my best shot to this q's infront of me in 2 min time
All the best ... my good wishes are wid u!!!
My test is on Saturday. I'm doing one last practice test on Thursday, and on Friday, I'll spend some time reviewing the OG and anything I don't think I have a great handle on but other than that, I'm going to relax and get a lot of sleep.
Depends on your style. I've always been able to cram before exams and get more data inside my head so I kept chugging away, but if you have not been good at it then I suggest avoiding it. Relax and go over cursory notes - lessons learned logs - but don't do/redo any problems.
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one thing that the good folks on here seem to be taking for granted, but that may actually not be a good idea in all cases, is "get a lot of sleep".
beware of "a lot of sleep", unless you actually get "a lot of sleep" on a regular basis.
this board has lots and lots of very type-a posters, so i would imagine that there are a fair number of people here who don't get "a lot of sleep" very often.
fact: state-dependent recall is a very real thing. this principle states, roughly, that you'll have your best recall in a state that's most similar to the state in which you learned the material.
translation: you should get the same amount of sleep on which you've normally been studying for the test.
if you normally get 6 hours of sleep per day, DO NOT sleep 8-9 hours the night before the test, lest you find yourself in a groggy state in which recall is considerably more difficult than you'd anticipated.
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also, make sure that you eat a good pre-exam meal that contains significant quantities of all 3 macronutrients (fat, protein, carbohydrate), and that you bring granola bars or other high-GI carb snacks to the exam with you. (you can put them in your little locker and access them between the different sections of the test.)
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on the day before the test, i would caution against solving any hard problems. instead, you should do one of the following:
* do nothing; chillax (= chill + relax)
* study openers for the quant section. i.e., don't actually solve the problems, but just look at them and declare, with reasonable specificity, how you would start each of them. this is a cool approach, because (a) starting the problem is usually the hardest part, and (b) you can review a hundred problems or more in an hour this way.
* work fairly easy problems, to keep yourself in the groove. DON'T WORK HARD PROBLEMS, unless, like mayonnai5e, you've demonstrated a consistent capacity for learning in that way.
beware of "a lot of sleep", unless you actually get "a lot of sleep" on a regular basis.
this board has lots and lots of very type-a posters, so i would imagine that there are a fair number of people here who don't get "a lot of sleep" very often.
fact: state-dependent recall is a very real thing. this principle states, roughly, that you'll have your best recall in a state that's most similar to the state in which you learned the material.
translation: you should get the same amount of sleep on which you've normally been studying for the test.
if you normally get 6 hours of sleep per day, DO NOT sleep 8-9 hours the night before the test, lest you find yourself in a groggy state in which recall is considerably more difficult than you'd anticipated.
--
also, make sure that you eat a good pre-exam meal that contains significant quantities of all 3 macronutrients (fat, protein, carbohydrate), and that you bring granola bars or other high-GI carb snacks to the exam with you. (you can put them in your little locker and access them between the different sections of the test.)
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on the day before the test, i would caution against solving any hard problems. instead, you should do one of the following:
* do nothing; chillax (= chill + relax)
* study openers for the quant section. i.e., don't actually solve the problems, but just look at them and declare, with reasonable specificity, how you would start each of them. this is a cool approach, because (a) starting the problem is usually the hardest part, and (b) you can review a hundred problems or more in an hour this way.
* work fairly easy problems, to keep yourself in the groove. DON'T WORK HARD PROBLEMS, unless, like mayonnai5e, you've demonstrated a consistent capacity for learning in that way.
Ron has been teaching various standardized tests for 20 years.
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good advice... thanks..
today i am just reading some posts here, reading some flash cards, timing myself just to see how much it takes to answer a question...wondering about some strategies, etc...
today i am just reading some posts here, reading some flash cards, timing myself just to see how much it takes to answer a question...wondering about some strategies, etc...
I'll agree with the above. I usually recommend that my students watch their favorite funny movie. I recommend "Billy Madison", since it deals with the travails of going back to school after a long time in the "workforce" ... 
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