{"id":559,"date":"2016-06-03T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T01:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=559"},"modified":"2016-06-03T14:44:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T01:44:10","slug":"exam-preparation-test-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2016\/06\/03\/exam-preparation-test-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Exam preparation: Test yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good way to see how well your exam preparation is going is to test yourself. \u00a0Start by breaking down your information into topics you need to revise. Once you\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/tests-and-exams\/gathering-and-sorting-information.php\">gathered<\/a> your information, summarised and <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/study-skills\/memory-strategies.php\">memorised<\/a> it, test whether you really know it. A good way to do this is to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/research\/library\/help-and-instruction\/catalogue-help\/search-encore\/exampapers.cfm\">previous exam papers <\/a>\u00a0on the topic and sit the parts of the paper that relate to that topic under exam conditions (i.e. timed). This will also help you get used to writing and help avoid you getting writer\u2019s cramp during the exam.<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/owa.massey.ac.nz\/owa\/redir.aspx?SURL=awwxnN_cdrJwdLWKwzObGcw1jw4i6gPRAcB3RV8hYxj6WsrZxoXTCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AbwB3AGwAbAAuAG0AYQBzAHMAZQB5AC4AYQBjAC4AbgB6AC8AcABkAGYALwBlAHgAYQBtAC0AcwB1AHIAdgBpAHYAYQBsAC0AZwB1AGkAZABlAC0AbABhAHQAZQBzAHQALgBwAGQAZgA.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fowll.massey.ac.nz%2fpdf%2fexam-survival-guide-latest.pdf\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/pdf\/exam-survival-guide-latest.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/owa.massey.ac.nz\/owa\/redir.aspx?SURL=IaTlZE90u2BxS5BI_wGSQBdggSbCUlbtCWDV0UBaTa_6WsrZxoXTCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AbwB3AGwAbAAuAG0AYQBzAHMAZQB5AC4AYQBjAC4AbgB6AC8AbQBhAGkAbgAvAHQAZQBzAHQAcwAtAGEAbgBkAC0AZQB4AGEAbQBzAC4AcABoAHAA&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fowll.massey.ac.nz%2fmain%2ftests-and-exams.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/main\/tests-and-exams.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good way to see how well your exam preparation is going is to test yourself. \u00a0Start by breaking down your information into topics you need to revise. Once you\u2019ve gathered your information, summarised and memorised it, test whether you really know it. A good way to do this is to find previous exam papers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}