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BEFORE taking a test:
  • Read the material again.  This may be the third or fourth time, but it never hurts.
  • Complete your reading notes.  You'll be surprised how much you may have missed.
  • Review your class notes.
  • Try to develop examples of important ideas.  Often concrete examples help make abstract concepts easier to understand.
  • Try to state important definitions or passages in your own words.
  • Often your textbook has review questions available.  Go over these as a way of testing your knowledge of the textbook's content.
  • Write a sample examination and exchange it with one written by another student.
  • Get plenty of rest.  Cramming never works.
Some additional suggestions:
  • Find out what your level of reading ability is.  If necessary, plan some program of improvement.  Reading, like any other skill, can be improved by practice.  Read newspapers, news magazines, or a hobby magazine on a regular basis.  Read novels for enjoyment.  Select reading material that challenges your vocabulary.  In short, read, read, and read some more!
  • Find out if your writing skills are adequate for college-level work.  Write as much as you can.  Write letters to friends rather than talk to them on the phone.  Keep a journal or diary.  Write until writing is as natural to you as talking.  In short, write, write, and write even more!
  • Keep yourself informed about current events.  Listen to the news.  Watch television specials on particular world issues or on historical events.  Try PBS stations occasionally.  If you have access to cable or satellite television, watch the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, or the Science Channel, among others.