Exams

Dealing with different types of exams

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Download any of our current range of free pamphlets on exams.

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Useful Links

General Exam Help

Useful strategies on preparing for exams from Edith Cowan University.
This module sets out to help you overcome some of the difficulties associated with examinations.
It will help you understand your own approach to exams and to find ways to improve your performance.

Strategies from York University (Canada) to help you prepare for

• Multiple Choice Exams
• Essay exams

Study Guides & Strategies from St Thomas University, Minneapolis, USA.
Contains Emergency Test Preparation & Test Preparation.

Exam Help for Science Students

Attend a class on exam preparation specifically for science students. Click here for classes on exam tips for Science students.

University of Texas has information on how to study Math and Science

The study skills site at St Thomas University, Minneapolis, USA.also includes useful handouts on studying maths and science.

Feeling stressed?

Making Exam Anxiety Work for You from the University of South Australia.

The most useful way to respond to exam anxiety is to learn to control it, and make it work for you. This site presents some ideas about useful ways to respond to exam anxiety and outlines some exercises to help you manage exam anxiety.

Visit the following web sites to find out about stress:

• what causes stress and how to manage it.
• how stress can affect your exam performance from the university of Kansas web-site.

For more general advice on how to get to your exams, how to cope with the exam period, or more general advice regarding unsatisfactory progress visit the Union Advisory Service.