has it ever happened to you that you
know everything you're very well
prepared and you just don't score well
on your exam and did you know that
having mastery over your content and
scoring well in your exams are two
different things so in today's video
we're going to talk about those specific
things that you need to do in order to
write high scoring answers so let's get
going that working hey this is Chetna
and you're watching ChetChat and for
today's video
I met with principals and examiner's and
also analyzed past papers of toppers over
several years so in the video we're
going to cover two things one is exam
to-do's what are those things you need
to do as soon as you get into that
examination hall and two paper
presentation strategies specific tips
for you to present your science social
studies math English or any other paper
let's begin with the exam to-do's and the
first is the timing as soon as you get
your paper divide the total time between
each question leaving 15 minutes at the
end for revision now perhaps you have 10
short answer type questions and you want
to put 40 minutes for them and perhaps you
have three to five long answer type
questions for about five marks or ten
marks and you want to keep an hour or
hour and a half for that now you could
perhaps do this even before when you're
doing your practice papers for revision
you can plan out the timings and as soon
as you go into the hall you write the
timings down next to each question you
know sometimes we spend so much time
writing the first few short answers so
beautifully and neatly and by the time
we reach the last ten mark answer we are
rushing through it and missing out on
marks over there so wear a wrist watch
don't depend on the wall clock and if
your time is running out leave the
question and move forward the second
exam to do is to read the question twice
and also
notice the command word at the beginning
of every question and read the entire
sentence twice because distinguished is
different from list and describe is
different from give advantages off now
sometimes we are in this excitement and
we read the first few words of the
question and we jump right into
answering it because we've seen a
familiar question before this is a trap
be very careful and the third exam to do
is for CBSE and ICSE students if you get
a question in your paper that you think
is out of your syllabus please attempt
it. It has happened in the past that the
examiners discovered that the question
was out of syllabus and they decided to
give marks to the student who attempted
it irrespective of whether it was right
or wrong so if you have no negative
marking on your paper please attempt
every single question
now we all know that content is king but
presentation and creating the right
first impression go a long way so let's
begin with your science and social
sciences paper now try answering the
question in the first line itself of the
answer directly for example a science
question is list three characteristics
of lungs which make it an efficient
respiratory surface start your answer
with the characteristics of lungs which
make it an efficient respiratory surface
our for example in a social science
question why did Gandhiji decide to call
off the non-cooperation movement begin
the answer with Gandhiji decided to call
off the non-cooperation movement because
now once we finish these first sentence
give the rest of the answer in points in
an orderly fashion preferably with the
most important point right up in the
beginning when answering objective type
questions underline the answer or the
main keyword or you can put a box around
it you can also highlight underline draw
boxes around important points for
example a social science question is
name a political party in India that
grew out of a movement answer the
political party in India that grew out
of a movement is a AIADMK and put a box
around a AIADMK notice how we rephrase
the question and wrote it as a complete
statement we didn't just put the answer
right there even though it was an
objective type question if the question
is to distinguish between then answer
the question in columns if it's a 2
mark question write about four points
and try giving examples always use a
pencil and ruler for making the columns
if the question is for five marks most
often you would be expected to write
about five points and always summarize
in the last sentence in science draw
diagrams if possible use a sharp pencil
draw neat diagrams and label them also
remember to give a proper title to each
diagram in social sciences if you have
map work please put the question number
on the top left corner of the map and
circle it and now let's see paper
presentation strategies for our math
papers the first thing you do when you
get a map
paper is write down all the information
that's given in the question in the same
order the format for a math answer
should be given to find formulae proof
format and the answer in units in math
even if your answer is correct but you
forget to write the unit's that could be
a costly mistake like centimeters or
rupees and if there are no specified
units in the question then write your
answer as 12 units for example always
put the final answer in a box if there
are tables required to be drawn in the
math paper always draw them using a
pencil and a ruler now for all subjects
when you get your exam answer sheet draw
a margin on the left-hand side because
when you attach your supplementary
sheets something that you write in the
corner on the left-hand side of your
paper actually won't be so clearly
visible and in the math paper I would
suggest you draw margin on the
right-hand side as well so you can use
that for rough work as you're solving
this question and you don't have to keep
flipping back to the last page of your
answer booklet but remember to cross out
the rough work when you finished
answering that question if there is a
graph paper make sure you write the
question number on the graph paper and
also the scale mark and label the axis
and when you are attaching this graph
paper to your sheets don't attach it
right at the end because sometimes it's
a single sheet that could tear off put
it in the middle of your supplementary
sheets and tie a thread
preferably keep it right next to the
question itself now let's take a look at
your English paper if you have reading
comprehension always read the questions
before you read the passage that way you
know what information you're looking for
when you read the passage in the writing
section if you have to write a letter
format for example always pay specific
attention to the word limit okay now
some general tips on paper presentation
which would apply to all subjects one
try to write as neatly and legibly as
possible leave spaces and if you cut
something out just use one line to cut
it out don't make a whole spiderweb on
it try to leave a line between two
answers and what I've noticed in the
toppers papers
is that at the end of every question
they actually draw a line to tell the
examiner that that answer is complete
okay one of the questions on your mind
is should I answer the questions in the
same order in which they are presented
to me in the exam paper
and the answer is yes you should you can
sort of do one section let's say you do
section A and then if you don't want to
do section B you can go to section C if
you want to but when you start a section
answer all the questions in that in
serial order and if you don't know a
particular answer leave a few lines for
it and go back to it later and fill it
in another place where I found people
losing marks for when they were giving
extra information now there was this
question which said give advantages of
an AC current and I found that the
student had beautifully written all the
advantages but in his excitement in the
end went and said disadvantages of AC
current one two and three and the
examiner unfortunately did not give him
full marks now another tip would be to
write your paper in only black or blue
ink and not green or red because that's
what examiner's use and don't use SMS or
short form kind of language try to use
as many scientific and technical terms
as you can now when you're revising your
paper at the end remember we left 15
minutes to revise the paper one of the
things for you to do is go back to the
question paper and tick off all the
questions that you answer to be sure
that you haven't accidentally left
something and the second area where I
find people make mistakes is they
accidentally write the wrong question
number so always check that for your
answer you've written the right question
number next to it and finally if you're
looking at tips on how to structure that
long answer we did a video some time
back where we discussed a QAEE
technique and I'm going to drop a link
to that video in the description box
below and meantime wish you the very
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