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The exam skills handbook : achieving peak performance / Stella Cottrell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave study guidesPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: vi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230506534
  • 9780230506534
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.26 22
LOC classification:
  • LB3060.57 .C68 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Where do I start? -- Getting in 'the zone' (i): Planning for peak performance -- Getting in 'the zone' (ii): Frames of mind for peak performance -- Exam myths and realities -- What are examiners looking for? -- Revision strategies -- Memory: Remembering what we want, when we need it -- Structured revision sessions -- Stress, health and performance -- Getting in 'the zone' (iii): Seeing success -- The exam -- Alternative exam arrangements for students with disabilities and /or dyslexia -- Might I be dyslexic? -- Sources of help -- Five-point plan for peak performance -- Planning checklists -- Tracking developments in an area of research -- References -- Index.
Summary: Stella Cottrell provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. She offers practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 232) and index.

Introduction -- Where do I start? -- Getting in 'the zone' (i): Planning for peak performance -- Getting in 'the zone' (ii): Frames of mind for peak performance -- Exam myths and realities -- What are examiners looking for? -- Revision strategies -- Memory: Remembering what we want, when we need it -- Structured revision sessions -- Stress, health and performance -- Getting in 'the zone' (iii): Seeing success -- The exam -- Alternative exam arrangements for students with disabilities and /or dyslexia -- Might I be dyslexic? -- Sources of help -- Five-point plan for peak performance -- Planning checklists -- Tracking developments in an area of research -- References -- Index.

Stella Cottrell provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. She offers practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision strategies.

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