Examiners, Teachers, Lecturers, Professors and Parents tend to over panic and worry students who sit exams.

An sample exam layout is quite simple – sit in a room that is silenced, with several peers either side of you in single desks, with seemingly random people walking up and down the aisles created by the desks in a slow fashion, and being provided with a question paper(s) and being instructed that you have 2 hours to answers 3 of 6 questions.

All an exam is, is to see if you have learnt the materials that you have been taught over the year etc. and seeing if you are able to take what you have learnt, agree/ disagree with it and provides reason and example to support your argument. This is the majority of exams that are not sciences e.g. Physics, Maths etc. but exams more business subjects, history, English etc.

Preparing for an exam is fairly straightforward; we have provided a few hints and tips for studying in previous blogs Study Tips from Stonebridge. But the most important to remember is like Corporal Jones’ says in Dads Army – DON’T PANIC!

Exams are drilled into students that exams will decide whether you can become a lawyer or a doctor or your dream job or not. Therefore teachers etc. can create frenzy or a state of fear for and think that an exam hall is a do or die place and the slightest spelling error at 16 will destroy your career prospects with one fell swoop. This is simply not the case.

When it comes to exams, remain confident in your ability and your knowledge of the study topic, have a clear mind and most of all DON’T PANIC! Worry will take over the majority of your mind stead you will spend more time worrying about the exam than actually studying for it and then actually writing the answers.

As well as the study tips from previous blogs we also have an Exam Preparation Course which will help you across a range of topics from Assessing the different types of questions, creating effective revision plans and further exam revision tips.