How to prepare for your final exams at home ? ( Secret Tips)

Final exams are always fearful, so to help you overcome this fear and do better in exams, I have some tips for you to prepare for your final exams by yourself at home in less than 1 months. 

I have got 97% in Class 8 Board Exams, 98% in Class 10 and 95% in Class 12, and I am going to share with you the tips that I followed to get good marks in exam. I used to follow these tips for final 1 months, and I always secured good marks and ranks ! 

My very first tip is to use the Pomodoro method. What is this method? 

It's actually something that I discovered on youtube and it helped me the most when I studied for my finals. 

It's actually very easy and free. Basically, what it is is that you have 25 minutes of study time and then five minutes of break. In those 25 minutes, the challenge is that you can not look at your phone, you can not get distracted, and you actually have to get work done. 

I'm the type of person who gets distracted by every single thing. It could be just a car and I would be like oh my gosh what kind of car is that? 

So this method helped me a lot because in those 25 minutes I had no chance of getting distracted. My tip for the five minutes is that you should not look at your phone because if you look at your phone you're gonna go on tick-tock and you're gonna spend time on it.

 

The second tip is to use flashcards. Flashcards are like so good for everybody. There's actually a side quizlet where you can go and create your own flashcards. 

You should do these tests and quizzes as much as possible. I had two nights to study, so I used flashcards. They helped me so much. I actually didn't have to write out the whole definition. It was awesome because I saved so much time and I saved a lot of stress and anxiety.

The third tip is studying groups, because you might know something that the others don't or they might remember something from class that you don't. 

You can always quiz each other. You can practice together. Make sure that it's not a huge group and make sure that you don't necessarily study with your best friends or with the friends group that you actually hang out with. 

I'm not saying that studying with friends is bad, like doing homework with them is fine, but studying for a test is a little bit tricky. 

Tip number four write out everything on a piece of paper that you know with one colored pen and then take another color and correct every mistake you made. Add everything that you didn't know and cross out everything that doesn't belong there or that you accidentally edited. 

I actually did this for one of my finals and it helped me so much. It saved me so much time. I only had to rewrite everything five times, which took me about an hour and a half, so it's super efficient.

Tip number five is actually one of my favorites. It is to head to youtube and type in the subject or like the material that you have to learn for your final and watch videos about it. 

I actually did this for one of my classes because I was a little bit behind and I needed a lot of clarification about the subject, so I just went to youtube and typed in the subject and I watched millions and millions of videos about it and it helped me a lot.  

Tip number six is to practice the material out loud. Even if you don't have a class that requires this, you should still do it. 

Let's say you have a final history. If you practice it out loud and you say it out loud over and over again, it's like another level, you know, so it helps a lot. Plus, you get used to talking about it, so when you have a conversation you can actually talk about it.

Tip number seven take a video I remember one class. I made a video of myself talking about the material and the subject. When I rewatched it, I was able to point out clearly what I did know and what I didn't know. 

I know sometimes it can be so cringy and awkward. I hated watching those videos that I made, but at the end of the day, I learned a lot and I got a good grade, so it was worth it. Plus, nobody ever saw it. 

If you don't want to take a video because you absolutely hate it, you can take a voice memo or something like that. Just get creative with it with number seven. 

I also want to mention drawing illustrations. If you have something in physics or geometry or whatever, it is so good to learn to draw the illustration of whatever you're learning about and then label the illustration. 

I've done this for numerous classes. You just have to get creative and if you can draw, you should still draw. I really suck at drawing, even though I love it, but this helped me a lot. 

For example, you can make small stick figures and label them with the Well, while you are drawing, you're enjoying yourself. It's a little bit relaxing because you can listen to music while you do it. You learn. It's gonna be so good because when you have your final, that picture that you drew is basically gonna trigger everything that you know about the subject.