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About Me: I Md. Zahid Hasan, founder of the BCS Exam-Tips

Blog http://bcsexam.com. I am a BCS Cadre Officer and have been

serving at Bangladesh Civil Service since 2011. Read more about

me at http://bcsexam.com/about-me/

Objectives To help you initiate a smart preparation for the exam

To introduce you with exam psychology

To introduce you with exam strategies

To rectify your exam presentation

To ensure extra marks in the BCS Written Exam

Phases of the Presentation 1. Pre-Exam Preparation

2. The Days Before the Exam

3. The Night before the Exam

4. The Exam Day

5. During Examination

6. Exam Psychology

7. Exam Presentation

1. Pre-Exam Preparation i) Motivation Your Brain is better than you think of

God has democratically distributed brains and everybody has one.

Get inspired by the life history of Stephen Hawking and Atiur Rahman.

Remember the motto, Man can be destroyed but never be defeated.

The competitors are of the same ability

but the winner leads by an inch.

Bangladesh Bank Governor, Dr Atiur Rahman:

From Cow Boy to Governor

I a a rele tless orker! Stephe

My father used to call me a stupid!

God has democratically distributed brain and

e erybody has o e! No difference between a general

perso s brai a d Ei stei s brai .

Mental Set-up!

Pre-Exam Preparation Mental Set-up & Piloting the Syllabus Mental Maladies: Procrastination : To be or not to be

The Hardest part of an assignment is to start

Now or Never should be your study-motto.

Lower the standard of your work a bit.

Learn to say know

Study according to a smart schedule

Pilot myour project

Study just to fulfill your dream, not your parents

(Failing to plan is planning to fail.)

Creating a Learning Environment

Creating a learning Environment

Reading Room Set-up:

Reading Table Set-up: Set it against the wall

Decoration of the Wall: No fancy calendar or poster should be hung.

Not Using the Table for sleeping and the Bed for reading.

Learn the smart use of your cell-phone: Switch it off while studying.

Study in a well-lit room.

2. The Days Before the Exam:

How to maximise outcome from your study.

Restorf Theory of Maximising your memory recall:

• You tend to recall from the beginning and the ending part of your lesson.

• One can recall less from the middle of his learning topic.

• Solution: Break your study-duration into small units.

Revision Miracles!

Revision Miracles! 80% of memorised information gets lost after 24 hours!

Scientific way of Revisions can maximise your recall:

1st Revision: After 10 minutes. (Memorised information lasts

for one day after this.)

2nd Revision: After 24 hours.( Information lasts for one week

after 2nd Rev.)

3rd Revision: After 7 days (1 week). (Information lasts for one

month after 3rd rev.)

4th Revision: After 1 month. (Information lasts for one year

after 4th rev.)

Dra a Mi d Map of your learnt

lesson!

How to De-code Your Memory Enliven your memory through SMAHIN SCOPE of

memory code! S= Sensuality Feel, Touch …A touch can instill faith

M= Movement ( Make it dynamic and have tea with you)

A= Association ( Link them with your permanent positive memory)

H= Humour (Make fun with info)

) = )magination Float it through image… )magination is better than knowledge

N = Number ( Number force memory to stay forever).

S= Symbolism ( Transform it to implied different story )

C= Colour ( Stimulates memory system)

O= Order (Discipline you information)

P = Positive Image ( Memory tends to block the negative incidents)

E = Exaggeration ( Swell)

2. The Days Before the Exam How do you count your remaining days of exam?

Deactivate Facebook and Cell-phone.

Review your answers with some good friends in a group study.

Practice Quantum Sign.

Talk to your teacher about your concerns.

Consider whether you have learning disability or an anxiety disorder

Count your remaining days by counting your remaining study-hours.

3. The Night before the Exam

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The Night Before the Exam Sleep: Sleep by pm. )f you don t sleep by pm,

you ll mess up physically and mentally in exam hall. Food: Don t take heavy, rotten and junk foods in the

night.

Drinks: Never take in Coffee, Tea or Cola.

Stress Management: Deep Breath and meditation

Prepare your tools and stuff: Admit-card, pen etc.

Review, not learn new things (Like the review of a base-ball player before a knock.)

4. The Exam Day Hours Before the Exam

Dress: Put on loose and comfortable clothes.

Water: Have sufficient water and vacate your bladder.

Wear a watch

Arrive Early( have a look at the seating arrangement, lighting)

Avoid Nervous Students: Nervous candidates reduce your confidence level.

5. During Examination Stress Management (Exam is not everything in life)

Quantum Sign

Deep Breath

Positive Visualisation

Read Directions Carefully

Don t Look around, focus on yourself Budget your time

Take each question equally important

Don t underestimate yourself

During Examination Never get tense seeing others taking

additional papers.

Never be worried seeing circulation of questionnaire late.

Make sure you have sufficient time for the last question.

6. The Exam Psychology

How do you manage your stress?

7. Exam Presentation

Exam Paper Layout

Errors in Exam Script Decoration Margins:

# Upper Side/Header: 1 inch

# Left-Side: 1.5

#Right Side: 0.5 inch

# Bottom Side: 1 inch

Which colour do you use? Use Black-ink for

writing answers and blue-ink for high-lighting.

How do you pen through a wrong

answer?

Just pen-through the line with a single

straight-line.

Fatal Errors In Exam Don t forget to get back to your skipped question

A blank answer is always a wrong answer(put a check mark)

Answering a qn. Twice

Transferring ans. Incorrectly from scratch

Ignoring the clock ( 5 mins left but 5 ans to write)

Thinking too much

Strategies to fight the Qns.

Deadly Spelling/Punctuation/grammar mistake/ overwriting at the beginning should be avoided.

Content is King! Yes, write down quality answers with proper documentation.

Strategies: Scanning the ques.

Some questions need more time.

Some qns. need more points.

Some qns. need more drawings.

Some qns. need more diagrams.

Strategies: Starting with more

difficult question.

You will get exhausted

You will get stumble at the beginning

You will get demoralised ,nd may lose much time to cover.

Do you adopt wrong strategies? Writing too much or too little ( A short answer

covering each points is better than long answer detailing everything)

What if you fail to answer in due time?

You drop your writing style

You drop proper paragraphing

Do you blackmail your examiner? Never cheat the examiner with providing

wrong information and quotations.

About Me: I Md. Zahid Hasan, founder of the BCS Exam-Tips

Blog http://bcsexam.com. I am a BCS Cadre Officer and have been

serving in Bangladesh Civil Service since 2011. Read more about

me at http://bcsexam.com/about-me/

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