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What can you do right before a big test – let’s say starting the
day before a big test — to get the best possible exam results?
Even if you are already a great test-taker you’re probably
looking for that extra edge to create the best possible scores
on your exams.

Here are ten things you can do to create better results on your
exams.

The Day Before –

1. Review Key Points — Notice the word Review — The day before your test is less than ideal to be first learning something.
Hopefully you have already mastered the material, and it is just
a matter of giving that material an extra polish.
2. Eat Well-balanced Meals — Remember the phrase, You are what
you eat? Be sure to keep your body and your brain in peak
condition by feeding it the nutrients it needs to perform at its
best.

3. Feed Your Ruminator — Whatever we spend time doing,
thinking, and seeing in the 45 minutes before falling asleep is
what our brains ruminate on throughout the night. So it’s to
your advantage to feed it — the things you want to remember for
the next day’s exam.

4. Envisioning Your Success — Just before you drift off to
sleep, create a picture of yourself successfully completing your
exam. It’s most effective if you do it every night, but even one
day before your exam could make a significant difference in
creating better exam results.

5. Get A Good Night’s Sleep — You need your 7-8 hours of quality
sleep to perform at your best.

The Day Of –

6. Eat Your Breakfast — Keep your body, mind and blood sugar in
balance.

7. Do Light Exercise — Light exercise will help you feel good
and energized, and help get more oxygen to your brain.

8. Do A Light Review — Glance through your exam preparation
materials one more time, and do any last minute checks you feel
you need.

9. Keep the Exam in Perspective – It’s just a test, not the end
of life on this planet. Allow yourself to relax and let your
worries go.

10. Breathe — A lot of students tense up, and forget to breathe,
or take shallow breaths. Be sure to breathe deeply from the
diaphragm. This will help your muscles feel better and will help
to clear your head and allow you to think better.

So the next time you are facing a big exam, follow these tips
and create great exam results!

Copyright 2006 by Teresa Bolen. All Rights Reserved.

Teresa Bolen is a teacher at Todaiji Academy, one of the top 5
schools in Japan, and the author of Master Plan to Master Exams:
How to Discover Your Hidden Abilities to Create the Success You
Desire. You can get her ‘Academic Excellence Report’ at
MasterPlanToMasterExams.com MasterPlanToMasterExams.com

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– Henry David Thoreau –

Anytime you increase the flow, you increase efficiency. When you increase the flow of thought you increase the abilities to teach and to learn. We are learning more and more about the brain, its capacity and how humans learn each day with the modern techniques of fMRI and other innovative technologies. Now I would like to discuss the value in these possible future innovations and how they will affect the changes in education. There are so many theories in schooling on the best way to teach little humans and re-educate adults, but all brains and people do not exactly think the same. Connections are made through memorizing by association, alliteration and rote memorization and countless other ways. What we need to be careful of brain washing our brains to think in unnatural ways and to believe that everything we learn is truth. The basic reasoning on this is that ‘truth is relative’ and a relative story is the one about the elephant where if asked to describe it while blind folded and you are holding onto a leg, you might say it is like tree trunk the tail a rope and the tusk a solid pointed rock. None are incorrect, but in the same regard none are absolutely correct. It is therefore apparent that blindfolds will keep us from the closest possible relative truth.

Too often we teach in schools as an absolute, the information all of it is relative. And the changing truth of political correctness of history every 20 years is also an interesting phenomenon, not to mention a real problem. Why on Earth would you re-write the truth of history? Well perhaps to get closer to the truth since in the period you could not tell the truth. Well then that means that the flow of thought has been stifled and the usefulness of the media and historical writings has been suppressed. Once the truth is feathered out, and then later it is changed again and again then it is but a mere work of fiction and brain washing. Therefore even those who study the annals of history so that they do not allow that history to repeat itself; are using the information in vain and there is an increasing possibility that they will repeat all that they fear due to the fact they are using bogus data as men before them had; garbage in, garbage out.

When we educate we should do so with an extreme conviction to tell the truth to the best of our abilities and without regard to the political correctness. If you burn all the books of today you will surely repeat those hardships over again in the future. Every time we inhibit or restrict thought we deny the truth, suppress innate characteristics of mankind and then allow these thoughts to appear at inappropriate times and cause serious issues, which are often compounded later.

If we will use our current technology to teach our historical record as precisely as possible and in such a way that it flows naturally into the faithful servant side of the brain correctly for maximum retention and recall, then in fact we are well on our way to teaching humans to think and reason based on good solid data. Indeed, this in fact would be the best for all concerned in this period and future periods, which follow. Please make a note of it and do think on it.

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