The Exam Skills Handbook: Achieving Peak Performance - 2nd Revised Edition

Provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It gives practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies. This fully updated, two-colour edition includes two brand new chapters.>

List of contents

Introduction
Where Do I Start?
Getting in 'The Zone' 1: Planning For Peak Performance
Getting in 'The Zone' 2: Frames Of Mind For Peak Performance
Exam Myths and Realities
What Are Examiners Looking For?
Managing Different Types of Exams
Multiple Choice Questions
Revision Strategies
Memory: Remembering What We Want When We Need It
Structured Revision Sessions
Managing Stress
Getting in 'The Zone' 3: Seeing Success
The Exam
Multiple Choice Question Exams (MCQs)
Managing Different Types of Exams
Appendix 1: Alternative Arrangements for Students with Disabilities
Appendix 2: Might I Be Dyslexic?
Appendix 3: Sources of Help
Appendix 4: 5 Point Plan for Peak Performance
Appendix 5: Planning Checklists
Appendix 6: Tracking Developments in an Area of Research
References
Index.

About the author

Stella Cottrell was formerly Director of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leeds, UK, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at the University of East London, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Stella Cottrell, Cottrell Stella
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2012
• EAN: 9780230358546
• ISBN: 978-0-230-35854-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Palgrave Study Skills; Macmillan Study Skills; Palgrave Study Skills; Macmillan Study Skills; Bloomsbury Study Skills
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Study & learning skills: general, STUDY AIDS / Study & Test-Taking Skills, Study and learning skills: general