Preparing for Test Day

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It’s pretty common to be nervous about test day.  And, you’re certainly not alone if you hate taking tests.

The best thing you can do is start preparing early, because the better prepared you are, the fewer things you’ll have to worry about when it’s time to actually take the test.  The first step involves preparing yourself mentally and physically for your standardized test.

Plan and Organize

Most people worry about tests because they’re concerned they won’t be ready.  Reviewing material and studying is necessary for even standardized tests.  Reviewing the basics of the subjects that will be on the test is recommended.

  • There are certain things you’ll need to know about the test. If your teacher doesn’t let you know during class, ask about the subjects the test will cover, whether the test will include essay questions or be restricted to multiple choice questions, and how much time you’ll be given to finish the test.
  • Once you know these basics, you can organize your time to help yourself review important material efficiently. Don’t try to cram everything into your head the night before the test. Break up the material into smaller, more manageable sections, and study a section every evening. Your mind will retain the information better, and you’ll be more relaxed on test day.
  • In addition to your time, organize your study area. Some people like studying in quiet, while others prefer background noise. Plan where and when you’ll study, and stick with that plan.
  • Verify the test’s time and location. Put everything you’ll need, including pencils and a calculator, into your backpack before the day of the test. That way you won’t be rushing around the morning of the test looking for those items, and you’ll know exactly where to go for the test.

The night before the test isn’t the right time to hang out with your buddies. Instead, spend some time relaxing and start preparing yourself mentally for the test. That evening, stop thinking about the test. Instead, read a good book or watch an entertaining movie on TV.   Eat a dinner that’s high in protein, because that will help you have more energy and be more alert. And finally, get a good night’s sleep.

On Test Day

Once the day of the test arrives, get up early and enjoy a good breakfast. The breakfast you eat is important, because you won’t have as much energy if you eat the wrong type of foods. Emphasize proteins, like eggs, cheese (including cottage cheese) and peanut butter.

Avoid eating too many carbohydrates, and stay away from foods with a lot of sugar. In addition to drinking plenty of water after you wake up, bring some bottles of water with you to the test so you can drink some during breaks or even during the test itself.

Wear loose, comfortable clothing and make sure your shoes are comfortable, because if your feet hurt your entire body will hurt. Arrive at the test’s location early, and visualize opening the test booklet and knowing all the answers for a few minutes. Take some deep breaths and shake out your whole body to relax any tense muscles.

If you’re properly prepared and well-rested, and you know the test material, you’ll do just fine on the test. Stay confident and loose, and do the best job you can.

About the author:

Steven C. Brown is helping students prepare for nursing school. Different schools use different kinds of tests to select their students. The TEAS test is often required and more information about this exam can be found on his website www.teastest.org

 

Any good ideas for getting off a college wait list?

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I was waitlisted for Harvard and Georgetown, and I’m seeking any good ideas to get off this list and into one of these colleges. Thanks!

Unfortunately, college wait lists are tricky things.
Most colleges admit more students than their target class size, because they know that a certain percentage of students will turn them down. Obviously this percentage is lower for schools like Harvard and Georgetown than for smaller, less well-known schools. Some schools hardly ever admit people off their wait lists, if they get a higher than expected acceptance rate. Continue reading →

Knowing the Golden Key to College Student Life

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There s absolutely nothing that can be compared to college student life. IIt is a time of total freedom and exploration that is considered one of the best experiences in life. And for that same reason, college student life is seen as somewhat mischievous, exciting and dangerous as  well, in point of view of parents anyway!

College student life is something that should be taken extreme care of because those are the golden days for anyone s life. It is during college student life that young adults get to explore the world, make new bonds, understand things in depth and pave their career path. So any mistake done during college student life would become a scar for the future or worse, it could change your life forever. Continue reading →

Encouraging Your Child To Read Is The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Child

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When Christmas and other gift giving times come around we all like to treat our children. Children are a great market for toy producers and they bring out new toys and advertise them heavily. The truth is that a good education is probably the best gift you can bestow on your children.

If you can combine pleasure and enjoyment with help in learning you may have found the perfect gift for your child. Learning to read is the essential first step on a lifetime of study and education so a child who is comfortable with books should do well in school. For anyone who is uncomfortable with reading it will be very hard for them to carry out any learning that involves reading

By the time we are leading adult lives we have forgotten about most of the toys we loved but we never forget the great childrens books that made such an impression. Purchasing your child a wii games console is one thing but giving them books that encourage them to enjoy reading will help them throughout their lives. To improve your childs chances of success showing them reading is an important part of their education will be a great help. A childs imagination can be encouraged through reading and the benefits carry on throughout your childs life

Help your child to appreciate the pleasure of reading with classic childrens books and you prepare them for a life of enjoyment from reading. You can teach your children to appreciate the pleasure of books by reading stories to them when they are small

There is no reason not to read to your children when they get older and you can also let them read to you. With the internet people are less inclined to buy books but books on the shelf encourage children to pick them up to read. A questioning mind is ready for education and childrens books open up your childs minds and their imagination.

By starting our children out enjoying reading books it helps them later when they have to read books to study for their education

What Are The Benefits Of Homeschooling

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Firstly lets try to understand the reasons we would want Anna and Angelo to learn at home versus going to public schools. Lets start with some of the superficial reasons, first one being you do not have to get up at 6:00 am in the morning and get them dressed for school, pack the lunches, give them all your normal instructions and wait for them to get home hoping everything went well that day at school.

You are the only one that will make the choices as to what you think your child needs to learn or do and will no longer be something that you do not have a lot of visibility to. Being able to decide the homeschool curriculum that best fits your childrens learning needs and/or the interests of the child is probably one of the best benefits of homeschooling.

The average ratio of children to students in most schools is approx one teacher to twenty students. And another benefit of homeschooling is the fact that your child will recieve a lot of one on one time. Ok, Karen needs more work in math, all you have to do is add more time to math and maybe less time in english or whatever you choose as there is not any set class times for teaching a subject like there is in most of your public schools. What this means is your child will be able to put more hours into a subject that they need more help with without being pressured. Remember that the time it takes for a child to learn a subject will depend on the every different child.

What happens next is a wonderful thing, the learning of your children now becomes kind of a total family activity where the family becomes involved in just about all steps of the learning curriculum. Another thing that you will really love about homeschooling your child is you get to take them on field trips where you will both learn and have a wonderful time, and you will be doing experiments with them, which can be very interesting, but all then this also equals you are spending much more “quality time” with you child and i believe that this also brings a family much closer.

Another one my biggest benefits of homeschooling is your children do not have to deal with any negative peer pressure that you find in most all our public schools today, and your child does not have to compete to prove the abilities that he/she has as the competition is very low when homeschooling and your childs confidence will remain high.

Planning your childs learning sessions is very key when you need to plan so that you are able to keep the child interested and moving forward, this is something that you are able to do better than any teacher in public schools possibly could because you know your child better than anyone, you might consider mixing in something that your child enjoys along with the childs difficult schooling activities. for instance you might have an hour of math with your child and then right afterwards you might go on a fieldtrip to a zoo or museum, so now the childs learning becomes much more fun.

When it comes to teaching all ages of children one of the very first thing a teacher needs to do is try to figure out the childs most comfortable learning style, as it differs from one child to the next, lets say Jane learns best by writing, and David learns best when he reads, and then still there is Tony who wants to see it action so he is a visual type learning style, everone has a style in which you learn faster.

One of the geat benefits of homeschooling that we are hearing from a lot of home school moms and dads is you now have total control of what your child is being taught when it comes to things like morals and religous beliefs, there will no longer be that confusion that most children fight with when they see the things that they are being taught at home as far as things like i mentioned earlier, but by homeschooling you child now see’s both what is beaing taught and also what is being practiced in the childs enviroment.

In the end there are many many parents today that are very unhappy with our public schools are being run. When it come to public schools most people are on one of two sides, some believe that the child is not getting enough of an education, and the other side which is those that believe the child is getting overworked in scool.
One other concern that parents have when it comes to what is being taught in public schools is ethics & discipline. I believe that homeschooling in the enviroment that we all live in today is the very best way to educate your child and prepare them for life, but this task that you are taking on requires comittment by both you and your child, but most importantl you must understand the actual time that you are going to have to put into your childs eduction homeschooling them, because it takes a lot of time, if you do not have the time that it requires to benefit your childs homescooling education, you should not attempt to as this only fails.