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I PAGES-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falln. Ore. Friday, February 17, 19fil Utjjdj Tests Need Not Make You THAT Jittery By LESLIE J. NASON, Ed. D.. with HARRY KARNS , Do tests and exams make you nervous? If not, you' are an exception. Recently, one of our friends, a college graduate, toid us about a dream he has recurrently. He is is just wasted. It takes me so long to get calmed down, I can't finish exams of ordinary length in the given lime." Here is what we told him: Enter thi classroom with a def inite plan of action. As soon as you gel a look at sitting in a classroom whose the list ol questions, make out blackboards till the wall space from floor to ceding. The black boards arc covered with exam questions. Suddenly the teacher appears at the front of the classroom and announces: "You have two more minutes in which to finish." Our friend looks down at his paper and discovers that, except for his name in the upper right band comer, it is blank. He hasn't answered a single ques tion! i The best way to overcome the jitters at exam time is to go into tlie classroom with a plan of action. Fears creep into idle minds. But if you fill your mind with positive plans for taking the test, there will be no room left for anxiety. t "I really got buck fever when I go in to take an exam," Jack told us, '"That first 10 minutes cause a partial or complete black out of knowledge. As a result, the last part of the exam i left out entirely or is very poorly done, we know of no remedy cx ccpt to stop working, take a deep breath, relax your muscles for a moment, and then make an entire ly fresh start. . MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY TO THIS NEWSPAPER PI com land m the complete booklet on "You CAN Get Better Grades" a tentative time budget. This is action, and action is an enemy of fear. After making out the lime budget, start using it. Read the first question. Answer it. Dismiss it from mind, ltead the second answer it, and go on to the third. Forget the problems you have worked concentrate on the one you are working. This is a guar anteed way of preventing mental l.n.-innr tint tit n am in, I mal.i fn,ni ihin'n knnw w. l! Tackling the Kssay Type i vour own name. r i J"- minu wiui a nc pun. Sli.rfi.nl. tell us that nflpn inlRemintl yourself: the midst of an exam, without "I am going to read tne ncxi warnnc. something hanoens to pronicm caiciuny. i am bu..., ' Budget Your j Exam Time (Enclosed U $1 In check, money order or cash.) : 4C Pwjfei'- V Itll enattoeu.a. TjW.nw.tta, . ok. lawwJkMac . ,,iai. i.i'ii.iiiii ' 2t? "I "You're the best friend I have in the world Right?' to cive it full attention. 1 am not going to stand for any interfer ence by silly thoughts. I-cl you'seh" know who is boss. The details of the plan you use depend on the type of exam. Let's sav you enter the class room and discover that you arc required to take an essay-type exam. 1. Check the number of ques tions Decide about how much lime you should allow for cacli 2. Now go hack to the first question. Forget everything else. Give that first question your un divided attention. What does it ask you to do? Compare? Define.? Explain? Discuss? 0 u time? List? Each of these words means something different. Make sure you understand the differences 3. When you are sure you know what is wanted, write down the answer as clearly and completely ns you can. It may help you to use a piece of scratch paper to organize your ideas hetore mak ing your final draft. 4. Leave the first question as soon as you decently can. Leave u space between this answer and the next answer in ease you should want to add something lat er on. 5. Forget the first question and concentrate on the second. Follow tho same procedure as before. In the same way, complete all the answers. You are now ready, if lime allows, lo go back over your paper and correct It. Look for incomplete sentences, incor rect punctuation, misspelled words. grammatical errors. If you have some time left, go through the exam for the third lime. This time ask yourself: "Is there any more precise informa tion I can add?" Think of your textbook, vour notebook, and of the lectures. If something comes to mind, use the space you left for additional sentences. The Objective Type But let's suppose the test is not an essay-typo test but an objec tive tost one requiring you to recognize n correct answer when yon see one. '. The typical objective test has quite a big number of questions arranged in no loqical order. The important thing to do is pay at tention to each question in its turn. Answer question No. 1 and forget it. Go on. Any carry-over of anxiety will harm your chances of answering No. 2 correctly. No one rules' ion in this type of exam should be thought of as critically important. Don't think of any given question as the hinge of fate. Joe brought us an answer sheet for a test in graduate education. We spotted a sequence of wrong answers in which he had missed II out of 12. We sensed that the first question of this scries must have troubled Joe mightily. "What happened on No. 62?" we asked him. He looked up No. 62 on a ques tion sheet and grew red in the face. "I wouldn't answer that ques tion the way the professor de mands even though I failed the course. This emotion had cost him 10 grade points. You have lo approach exams with an objective point of view. An exam in a subject containing controversial ideas isn't necessar ily a test of your opinion. It is not an aigumcnt between you and the professor, ft is a test of how well you understand what the professor and the text have been saying. 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