How to do good studying for a test and making an A on it, this would really help me out a lot.

Question

I need studying tips and test taking tips to get a good grade. Please email me back with an answer. Thank you.

Answer 1

This varies from person to person and from subject to subject.  I will tell you what worked well for me as a physics student.  

 

I will assume the following:

 

(1) That you have been carefully reading the assigned reading

(2) That homework problems were assigned and that you have been carefully working the assigned problems

(3) That the assigned homework problems are representative of the kinds of problems that will be on your test (I have to admit, reluctantly, that not all teachers satisfy this condition)

 

Then before the test, review all the homework problems and the examples in the assigned reading and make sure you understand them well enough that you can work all of them without having to look at your notes and without having to re-read any section of the book.  If there are formulas and concepts that you must know, then commit them to memory.  You may also need to memorize the values of key constants, unless the teacher provides formulas and values of useful constants on the test.  Find out in advance if this is the case.  The bottom line is know how to solve the kinds of problems you encountered in the examples contained in the book, the examples the teacher worked in class, and every homework problem assigned by the teacher.  I found this usually works, but I have to caution you, there are teachers who do not test what they assigned, and it can be frustrating, because you may have no idea what they might throw at you.  Hopefully, there will not be too many of those.