Entrance BERUFSMITTELSCHULE YOU FOR THE PREPARATION OF NOTE?

You can do many things wrong to prepare for the exam. That's a shame: who makes
mistakes in preparing, wasted his time and risked yet that the test fails. On th
e following pages I've listed the most common mistakes that are made when prepar
ing. My wish is that you avoid these mistakes!
Error 1 It is overrated, part 1 Who is preparing for a test, should know whether
he has learned enough or not. Dozens of studies make clear, however a sad fact
fail: people, if they have to assess how well it prepared for an exam. It can be
concluded that a piece of advice: Never rely on your feeling, if you want to kn
ow what about your preparation. Whether you are prepared really well, you have t
o check. You must always check - otherwise this happens a second fault.
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Error 2 You shall not, because people sometimes overestimate a learning is easy.
Then refers to the subject matter immediately and take him easily in the head.
Because you can easily memorize the material, it is believed that one can determ
ine it to be quite the test. We therefore omitted to verify his ability. However
, this is dangerous: When learners often overestimate themselves especially in t
hose things which one simply finds ". Avoid this error and check your knowledge
necessarily in those things where you are learning easy one! Go to never assume
that the stuff is just 'and that it then has to be'!
Many students take this advice to heart and consider their knowledge - but then
to make another mistake: they check your knowledge wrong.
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One error 3 checks under unrealistic conditions
Imagine a learner who has difficulty with mathematics. To help him, he hired a t
utor. Its state of preparedness of students tested, as he solves practical examp
les. The learner has no effort to solve the examples. It is therefore certain th
at he has prepared himself well. The test, however, then falls out of bad. This
can not explain the learner first. But the reason for the bad check is found qui
ckly once triggered when the student the practice examples, the tutor was presen
t. This has the learner been repeated one or the other phrase, which led him to
the correct solution - and thus the students his knowledge in a very unrealistic
conditions is verified: During the test, namely, no tutor is in place to have.
What this means for you: When you check your preparation, you should do so under
realistic conditions. They should ensure that you can solve the tasks under exa
ctly those conditions that can be found in the audit.
If supported, check in, you should deal only with those tools that you can rely
during the test. Never forget to take note of the time factor: Check whether you
can solve the tasks within that time, which is available at the examination. St
rikingly, many students fail, namely, because they have overlooked the factor of
time and then come cope during the test with no time pressure.
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They wasted four errors in learning time Sometimes I want to know the learners w
hat they do because actually when they get down to an examination. Usually they
tell me that they learn the test material first and then read it later again and
again. This reading is very popular - it is likely that learning will be recour
se to the most frequently. But this is tragic. Scientific research that is comin
g again and again to the same conclusion: It does little for learning, if you on
ly read through the material. And what's worse, it also benefits very little, if
 one reads the material several times. If you read the material several times by
bringing this about as much as if he had been read through only once - and that
really is very little. As it is with the light pen used by many students when t
hey read texts examination? Although this preparation is very popular form is, h
ere is a warning attached: I am not a single investigation, the cast-iron proof
that shows that the underscore with the light pen really improves the learning e
xperience. If you prepare, you should not do without reading again: should, givi
ng place to a different form of preparation.€This preparation is the form of qu
eries - but many students commit the mistake that they give up the queries.
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Error 5 One of the queries fails by one, queries' is when you seek some form of
matter to produce what they have learned from your head - be it that you are usi
ng file cards, except that you can be queried, it was that you read a text and a
nswer questions about this or is it that you solve a math problem, which is new
to you. It still happens that students go to the entrance, without having asked
a single time. However, this is a massive mistake, because the query is a very e
ffective form of learning dar. How effective it is to show very many studies: Wh
o is reading again instead of the queries can at most double its success. It suf
fices, however, not if you are querying. If you ask itself, you should do so pro
perly, otherwise it commits another error.
Error 6 One wonders off, but you do it wrong, the most important error in queryi
ng is that you choose the wrong time. The fact that one of these errors happened
is understandable. The right time to
Queries is that is not where one would expect him. One should never be retrieved
when the subject matter perfectly in your head. We should instead wait to queri
es until you forget what you have learned even a little bit.
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Learning research have found out why this is so: you know that the queries use i
s only real when it is associated with mental effort. It can be deduced three pi
eces of advice, you should follow, you can avoid mistakes when querying. ï Do you
memorized a particular substance, for once, it makes no sense when you retrieve
them immediately upon return. Immediately after impressing you is remembering al
l too easy to query and has no effect. ï Even less sense it makes if you have lear
ned immediately after the query memorizing several times in succession so that t
he learning reinforces the fact! ï If you want to query a particular substance, wh
ich you have previously learned once, you should read not before. Read it throug
h, this has been revived. The query will then naturally fall easy - and so the q
ueries use is also nothing here. - It is not - the only way
Error 7 It does not care about learning
Amazingly, many students do not care about how they should act like when they pr
epare for the exam. They assume that you have to learn the material easy and tha
t it plays no major role, how to do this - the main thing is that you work dilig
ently and long enough to learn, they say. Does it really not matter?
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Recently, researchers went to a school building. There, they selected from a cla
ss. One half of the class could learn the way they found this to be true. The ot
her half of the school but could not. She was forced to correct learning. Afterw
ards there was a test. Those children who had learned to how they considered thi
s to be true, reached 20 points. Those children, however, who had been forced to
correct learning, came to more than 80 points. Whether you reach at an examinat
ion 80 or 20 points, but makes a difference - it will decide whether to passing
a test or not.
This difference, however, goes back on the learning - and thus one must not disc
uss long whether it is important to learn: It's important. And because it is imp
ortant that you should first think about when the test is imminent!
Hans Peter Weiss
Address: lernberatung.hpweiss @ gmx.ch
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For more information on learning, see the following book:
Hans Peter Weiss: Better grades. With 10 rules for success in the vocational sch
ool Sauerländer publishers in 2008, second edition 0345 3 0137 4
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