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To perform well in any official exam, you need to draw on a set of skills
that the GCE and Baccalaureat boards mention nowhere. You need to
be a cunning exam taker. Many candidates who otherwise perform well
in class exams end up failing the big public test due to their weakness in
exam tactics.
In the exam world, you are rewarded only for answering the mosts
questions that fetch the most marks and with exam boards making a full
dive at multiple choice questions, exam tactics become more and more
important in ensuring success. It is not enough to master the syllabus.
Mastering the tactic is equally important. Here are some tips:
Know the directions cold.
The instructions on the exam are always the same. You wrote the mock.
The instructions are the same. Learn them beforehand and don't waste
time trying to understand them on d-day. You can save up to ten
minutes this way.
Don't get your answer sheet messed up.
In a multiple question setting, a sloppy answer sheet puts off the
examiner. Although examiners will do their best to understand your
answer, they are only human. Too much cancellation, change of answer,
circling, crossing, erasing, re-circling and re-crossing could suggest to
the marker how undecided you are and you could even be suspected
for cheating.
Predict the answer.
The exam board intentionally introduces tempting wrong answers in
multiple choice questions as traps. When tackling such sections, predict
the answer without checking the answer grid. Solve the problem first
before checking if you have a match. Don't first of all jump into the
answer set to see which one fits.
Don't answer questions in their given order.
Skip the difficult questions. Attack the weaker angle first. You'll return
to them later. Exam tacticians have discovered that tests are usually set
in order of difficulty. The easy questions are right down there at the
bottom or on the last sheet.
Guess.
You guess wrong, you miss the marks. You guess right, you gain the
marks. Guessing is extremely profitable especially when you are
absolutely certain you have little or no grasp of the question. But
before the guessing game, proceed by elimination. If you are presented
with five answers to choose from, chances are that there would be two
or three answers which you can bet to be wrong. Eliminate them. Then
guess on the remaining two or three. "Tumbu tumbu bust calabar
titabeleh bust..." Never your leave the hall without finishing in a multiple
choice or structural exam unless there is a penalty for providing wrong
answers.

Be equipped, even if you don't mean it.
Some candidates go for the mathematics exam without a protractor,
maths set, compass and pencils, claiming they don't know anything
about trig ratios and graphs. That would be a recipe for disaster. Even if
you can't draw a map, have your graduated ruler, compass, pencil and
eraser when you sit the Map Reading section of the Geography exam.
You never can tell. Perhaps the question the board sets requires you to
one silly bar chart or a simple pie chart you used to crush in two
minutes way back in your class seven days. Now here you are with some
silly angles you can measure but without the tools to do so. Everybody
was once waiting for somebody to bring a pencil to the test. Nobody
brought one and so everybody failed the test because they had to draw
a map of their classroom. Drawing is only tolerated in pencil.
Time yourself.
Time is the most uncontrollable resource. You'll be expected to answer
a lot of questions in a very short time. Don't blame the board. It's part of
the exam. Keep moving through the paper at a regular speed. If you get
hooked somewhere for too long, know you are already working on a
minus. We have already emphasized the necessity to skip harder
questions.
Pick quick point questions if time is running short.
Some questions, especially in English Language and History requires you
to give the meaning of certain words as used in a given passage. You can
often answer these correctly at the last minute even if you haven't read
the passage.
Question shock? Never say die!
Sometimes you take a quick glance at your question paper and it
suddenly dawns on you there is no comfortable question for you. DON'T
be shocked. Exam shock can give rise to malaise or a sudden fever. Take
a deep breadth. Relax and say slowly to yourself, "I've prepared for this
battle for nine months. I won't lose without a fight." Relax for five
minutes and recollect yourself. "Gather momentum". Read through the
paper again slowly and categorise the questions into three. Label the
fairly easier ones number 1. You'll discover that there are actually
questions with which you can put up a fight and struggle for a B or C
grade if things get to the worst. You can't give up. The exam will always
be set from your syllabus and not from space.