5 Rules to Pass Exams Without Cheating

As you know, all self-respecting students prepare for the exam on the last night, before spending an hour and a half near the open window, frantically calling for “Freebies”.

Everyone organizes the night “brainstorming” in their way. Someone carefully writes spurs, believing that along the way all the course material will remain in their head. Someone is looking for a friend who will agree to help tomorrow morning. While others, decide to prepare for exams more responsibly with the help of essay writing help.

There are a few simple rules that will greatly facilitate the process of memorization and significantly increase the efficiency of the brain.

Rule 1. Give yourself the right setup

It is difficult to meet a student who has not studied philosophy, even more, difficult to meet someone who would remember more from it than “Hegel created the doctrine of the absolute spirit…”. And not because the subject is boring and quite complex, but most students perceive it as “unnecessary” and teach philosophy on the principle of “pass and forget”.

This setup works perfectly: only after receiving the coveted stroke of the pen in the test card, everything that he learned is erased from the student’s memory. And there’s nothing you can do about it – psychology. Therefore, before you start preparing for the exam, it is important to give yourself the installation that you need this material for further professional activity and a successful career.

Rule 2. Don’t try to embrace the vast

How long has the teacher been lecturing you? A semester? That is, even if there is 1 lecture per week, then an average of 25 lectures. That’s a lot for one night, isn’t it? Even if you manage to read (not learn!) that’s all. Therefore, do not strive to embrace the immensity! Rather, you need to read all the lectures to form a general picture, an idea of the course being studied, but you need to read not scrupulously and thoughtfully, but skim, the main thing is to catch the essence. Try to remember frequently encountered terms and phrases (thus you will increase the conceptual apparatus) and pay attention to examples – they will help you to understand the topic faster.

Rule 3. Think logically

We have already decided that it is not necessary to memorize all the lectures as a poem, the main thing is to understand their essence. This is the easiest way to do, logically comprehending the material being studied. And for this, as they say, all means are good: imagine the picture visually (as two small atoms “met” on a deserted street and decided to “live together”, united in a molecule), draw diagrams and tables, ask a friend to read a lecture and explain to you “in their own words”.

The main thing is that you understand the process well and can easily talk about it, just relying on logic and your understanding of how it works, how everything happens. After all, psychologists have long proven that memorization based on a logical understanding of information is 4 times more effective than mechanical cramming. To consolidate the logical understanding of the material, try to build a reverse chain. For example, describe first the functions of a single bank, then the Central Bank of the USA, and only then the entire banking system of the world.

Rule 4. Learn the definitions

Many students underestimate the importance of definitions. In fact, definitions (for “techies” – also formulas), really should be learned by heart as it is usually required by teachers.

First, a well-written definition usually contains the answer to the whole question of an exam card or even more than one. For example, the question “The concept and signs of anything” in 99% of cases can be answered by knowing only one definition, since long and” sophisticated ” definitions contain all the signs:

Law is a system of generally binding formally defined rules of behavior in society. Signs of law: systematic, mandatory, formal certainty.

You will be able to reveal the features and concept in more detail thanks to the formed general idea of the course being studied.

Secondly, in any academic discipline, there are no more than 30 definitions that you need to know and be able to use, that is, it is only 30 sentences. You can learn them in an average of 30 minutes, but so that they are not forgotten by the morning, repeat them an hour after you have learned them, and then after another 2-3 hours and be sure to go to the exam.

Rule 5. Don’t overload yourself

This rule is well-known and obvious: every hour or two in preparation, you need to take 5-10-minute breaks, you should get up to warm up, get some fresh air, go to another room, etc. This is necessary so that attention and memory do not work in vain, since all mental processes are slowed down and blunted when they are continuously accessed for more than 60 minutes. Remember that you can always ask for help from your peers when you need it. For example, you can get accounting homework help from your friend, and help him with Philosophy in return.

Most importantly, if you feel that your eyes close, and the textbook falls out of your hands, then you should not “force” yourself and drink liters of coffee. Probably, it will be more correct to go to bed, because you need to go to the exam with a “fresh” head.

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