Does anyone have any test taking tips/advice for me?

I always seem to know the material, but as soon as I get the results back, it is not what I am expecting.





Any tips/advice? PLEASE, anything will help, I hope. Thanks guys.Does anyone have any test taking tips/advice for me?
There are some techniques that can be used to make you a better test taker.





Some of them are:





Get a good nights sleep before the test.





Do not study the say before the test.





Read all the instructions carefully.





Answer all the questions. No blanks





In short answer questions leave the original answer once you decide about it.





In multiple choice questions look for the opposites in the choices . One of them is probably correct.





In writing an essay label carefully the number of each question and the section that you are answering.





Reword the question and use the rewording as part of your written answer.





Write neatly.





Good luckDoes anyone have any test taking tips/advice for me?
I don't know exactly what you mean by ';I always seem to know the material';.


If you mean you thought you understood it until you started writing the test and then realised you didn't know what your were talking about.... or just forgot, then that's one thing. And doing lots of homework helps. I know that in 1st year university, the lectures all seemed to make sense... until I got the first bunch of assignments and then I had to do a ton of work to figure out what they had really been telling me all along.





If, on the other hand, you mean that you think you got most of the answers correct only to find out that you didn't... that's quite different. Perhaps you did know the correct answers but weren't expressing yourself clearly enough. Teachers can have a tough time understanding what students are trying to say. Sometimes students are in such a hurry to get all of their ideas down that they misplace words, give the wrong impression, or just make small errors that add up.


The previous poster is right: SLOW DOWN. And re-read your answers to make sure you said what you MEANT to say.





My tip for test-writing if you tend to get nervous on tests or ';freeze up'; is this: when you get the test paper, take a minute to read the entire thing. Find one or two questions you know really well and answer them first to get yourself warmed up and to relax. After that try one of the tougher questions and ever if you don't know the whole answer, start writing down what you do know... then switch to another question. I always found that somehow if I started a tough question and then got back to it later that my brain would have been working on it ';in the background'; while I answered other questions and I always had more to say the second time around.





Hope this helps.
Reading the question is the most important thing! It's so easy to skim through it and think you know the answer, but if you slow down and make sure you know exactly what you should be answering you have a much better chance of getting it right.





I always used to read through questions really fast and think I knew the answer only to get tests back and find that what I answered wasn't even close.





That's my best advice, it's helped me lots!