Your Panic Study Guide! To avoid failing your next test (Teacher might hate this!)

"Creative" answer, but you wouldn't want to be in this situation.

          Ahoy! matey's! If you are reading this, chances are you are really struggling with your studies and you need a last minute miracle. Well, don't just hope for a miracle. I will provide you with tips that can really help you passing the subjects you are struggling with. 

THIS GUIDE WILL CERTAINLY IMPROVE YOUR EXAM/TEST SCORE! I PROMISE YOU THIS!

but you have to be committed and follow the guide extensively. 

Before the war 

1. Stop thinking about failure! 

 If you focus on failure. All your mental effort,time and energy will be lost on useless negative emotions rather on focusing on hitting your goals. Chill bruh! focus on passing and your brain will on full swing to make it possible.

2.Talk to your teacher/tutor/lecturer . Yes, no matter how you ignored them before this.

Yes, it's time to face mr/mrs ____ (your nickname for her), at this instance , you are at his/her mercy. Talk to them , and tell them your plan and show your initiative, this will benefit in away ;

A)They might tell topics to focus on.
B) They can guide you to help you pass.
C) If they are the one marking your papers, they might show some compassion towards you as you show initiative and effort. 

3.Plan the attack! Focus more on your strength , not your weakness.

If somehow your teacher is not that supportive , the best thing you can do is focusing on the topics that you are strong in and get maximum marks from those question.

For example .

A test paper with 20 question that covers the whole year syllabus (e.g 10 topics)

If you give maximum effort for at least 4 of the topics. You might be able to score a minimum passing grade. 

Attempt the hard questions on those topics. Once you have the confident, move on to the topic you are weak on if time is really limited , do your best to cover the basics (If maths paper, you will at least score some minor marks for your workings)

D-Day (exam day)

1.Get you sh*t together bruh!

Just like any battle,  the one that show the most nerve will usually lose. This is because they let their mind to focus on fear and anxiety. The two real enemy that will distract your mind from performing best. Fake some confident, tell yourself "you can do this'' and walk into the exam room/hall with confidence. Like a warrior ready to kill.  

2.Kill the easy one first, monsters last. 

This is all about timing. Paying too much time on a question and you can go on panic mode when you realize there are so many questions you haven't answered yet . 

Priorities of questions to answer:

Spend most of your time on this three type of questions 

1. The simplest - the one you are well verse with and this will build up some confidence in you for the other questions.

2. The easy one with high marks.

3. The one you have doubts with

Spend most of your time on this three type of questions above !

Skip those questions you absolutely clueless with until the end, when you have time. 

3. "This look familiar....."

Skipping doubtful/hard questions do hold a benefit, but it does depends on luck . When you skipped some of the questions , you might find that some of the questions you encounter later might contain some useful information about the question you skipped or after answering a question you somehow remembered how to answer the one you skipped. 

4.The Gambler.

The last option you can do when you really can't answer the hard question on the paper is  to just go with the best answer you can think off.  EVEN IF YOU ARE CLUELESS, put some effort into it and choose/give your best, you might even score some mark for it and in your case, every mark is valuable.

After the war.

1. Don't overthink. It wont help!

Even if you believed that you have done badly on it, try not to compare and share your answers with your friends. Leave it and walk away. Especially if this is your first paper of the day, it might hurt your confidence and emotionally distract you from focusing on doing your best on the next paper. 

2. Prepare better for your next war! Idiot proof yourself.

Once the result is out.  You should be upset even if you pass , only for one reason, that you didn't prepare properly for the test/exam . Failure is always a valuable lesson for us. Failing this one test/exam doesn't mean that you are dumb and never will be good on this particular subject. Move on and plan earlier for the next exam! Nothing is impossible if we have faith and move with the right plan.