Testing Tactics One Take The Entire Time

On Planet College mid-terms may be dissapearing in your rearview mirror but that can only mean finals will be arriving soon.

If you are satisfied with your performance on your recent mid-terms then fine, congratulations and good job!

But if you are dis-satisfied with your results, here is an advisory from Planet College. How much time did you spend taking the actual test?  Depending on what type of test it was, by the time a typical student on Planet College actually gets the test which they will be taking they are so anxious that they hurry through the actual examination just to get out of there.

Worse yet, we've all see those whizzes who stand up, walk up and turn in their blue book or scantron or blue book and scantron twenty minutes after the test started.  This often freaks out already shaky students who then begin thinking, " Should I be done?"  "Is this test really that easy?"

No. You should not be done and for you, of course, the test is NOT that easy. Nothing is that easy.  That there may be some championship test takers in your class, well good for them. But that does not help you.

Which leads to the following testing tactic recommended for average students.  Take the entire time. For the test. Use the entire time given to take the test.  Whether it is two hours, one hour or fourty minutes use every minute to take the test. You are not in a race. You are not graded on completion time. You are graded on correct answers.

Deciding you will take the entire time for the test and then doing so will reduce the pressure somewhat and possibly allow for clearer thinking.  And that could only be helpful.