The Exam Skills Handbook: Achieving Peak Performance

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.

• Answers the questions students most frequently bring to exam preparation

• Easy to follow, step-by-step approach to developing a range of ideas, strategies and techniques to succeed in exams

• Designed so students can start at different places depending on their circumstances

• Provides pathways to simply passing exams through to achieving optimal performance using the concept of the 'exam zone'

• Practical step-by-step guidance on approaching revision and exams, including a series of structured revision sessions students can follow or adapt

• Activities and structured reflection to help students identify personal strategies, with checklists to help planning

• Uses a page by page design to enable students to find information quickly

Autorentext

Stella Cottrell is an international bestselling author, with over a million sales worldwide. Her other titles include The Study Skills Handbook, Critical Thinking Skills, Skills for Success, The Macmillan Student Planner, The Exam Skills Handbook and Mindfulness for Students. Stella was formerly Director of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leeds, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at the University of East London.

Inhalt

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.