The exam skills handbook : achieving peak performance / Stella Cottrell.
Material type: TextSeries: Palgrave study guidesPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: vi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0230506534
- 9780230506534
- 371.26 22
- LB3060.57 .C68 2007
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 371.26 COT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A372742B |
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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