Teachers named effective life hacks for preparing for the exam

“I came and fell asleep”, and other annoying mistakes on the state exam

Now for everyone who will take the OGE and the Unified State Examination, the hottest time. School lessons end, state exams begin. How to properly prepare for them, what mnemonics to apply? How not to freak out the day before, what to do if you break your leg on the way to exams – teachers advise.

“Rule number one is to write cheat sheets,” advises Victor Mashulin, a teacher of history and social studies. – And not only in the humanities – in all. And even … take them with you, but leave them outside the audience. They still get caught in the exam. But the information, sometimes just in the form of visual images, will settle in the memory. But if you write and just take it with you, without even dragging it into the exam room, you will still feel calmer, more secure. “Spurs” help not only to better structure the material, to separate the “water” from the main thing, but also to repeat it, moreover, by topic and section. And repetition is the mother of learning.

Switch more often – advises the teacher of Russian language and literature Larisa Panova. “If you work with large amounts of text and try to remember them, the eye becomes blurry. And if you read alternately on paper, from the screen of your phone or tablet, then from a computer, you can remember more. And if you wrote something, when you switch to different gadgets, errors will be visible. And for those few graduates who are going to take the exam in literature as an additional subject, the teacher advises not to be lazy to keep a reader’s diary and make notes in it – this is very refreshing.

In the Russian language (and this also applies to foreign languages), cards with definitions, diagrams, and analysis help well for memorization. You can download them from the Internet, but check that they are not old – the rules of phonetic parsing, for example, have become more complicated not so long ago. There is such a psychological trick with cards – let the letters be in different fonts and different sizes, the effect of “switching” the brain will again occur.

The teacher of physics and mathematics, Vladimir Nikolaevich, advises learning to make rough notes and notes in advance. Being a repeated observer and member of the commission at the Unified State Examination, he noticed that many graduates lose precious time carefully transferring the text from the draft to the answer sheet. “The other extreme is that he sketched something in a hurry and he himself cannot make it out, he is lost,” the teacher shares. – It is better to work out a system of symbols and abbreviations in advance. As in mathematics, the words “any”, “about”, “generalization”, “therefore” are indicated by icons. It speeds things up a lot and you won’t get confused.” Or just write down the essence of the draft.

Another history teacher advises memorizing numerous historical facts on the basis of associations. For example, mentally link the dates of events to significant dates in the lives of your friends and relatives. The day of the Battle of Borodino on September 7 is associated with the birthday of your best friend on September 4, for example. And September 8 (September) 1830, the date of the Battle of Kulikovo, is close to the number of the dad’s car. Addresses with house numbers, phone numbers, and so on can also be used. And those for whom the “digital” way of remembering information is contraindicated can be helped by a figurative one, when a historical event, the name of a historical figure or a period are remembered as a picture, an image. Yes, the creation of such images is a separate work, but then they are remembered “at once”. And, of course, the direct associative path works for everyone. Everyone knows for sure that Pushkin was called Alexander – mentally link Suvorov, Macedonian, three Russian tsars to Pushkin …

And, one might say, unanimously battered and various USE teachers advise to train in filling out forms, to bring this skill to automatism. Ten times check the list of what is allowed to take to the exam and the documents that you need to bring with you: collect things from the evening. Start filling out with simple tasks, and then answer complex ones, especially if you are not sure of all the answers. Sleep well and eat well in preparation, without trying to experiment with energy drinks, because they work differently for everyone. The same sedative drugs – they slow down and adversely affect the functioning of the brain. Many examiners can remember a student who came in and just fell asleep – swallowed sedatives.

On the other hand, if you got up and immediately realized that, to put it mildly, you were not in shape: your head hurts, your stomach is twisting (not a “bear disease”, but for real), menstruation has begun, and many girls can’t stand them well, or have fallen broke on the way to the point of the exam – no need to torture yourself. And you need to come and clearly state that you are signing up for change on the reserve day.