How to deal with Exams

Seth Emsheimer
9/25/2017

 How to deal with Exams 

For instance, last week I had my first two exams.  My Group communication exam was this Thursday and my calculus exam was on Friday.  I was extremely nervous for the both of them.  For my group communication exam we had to choose one book of the three and she let us choose.  Of course for myself, I hate to read because sometimes I feel so bored out of my head that sometimes when I read my mind wonders off and is thinking of something else and I have no clue of what I read.  However, I choose The Glass Castle which was an amazing novel and I felt that it was easy for me to not get off track of what was happening and I think it might now be my favorite novel.  For the exam, we had to relate characters to some of the words from our textbook.  During the exam, I felt that time went by so quickly that I had to rush in order to finish the rest of the questions.  After the exam I wished I had paid more attention to how much time I had so that I could have gotten a better score.  Now for my calculus exam I knew I had to pay attention to the time and use every minute wisely.  Before the exam I studied for an hour and then I headed straight to my calculus class.  I would definitely say studying before the calculus exam was a smart idea to help refresh me on the the two chapters.  During the exam I looked at how my many problems I had and saw how much time I had to finish the test.  It helped me see how much time I should take on each question. There was ten questions but there were multiple questions in each question.  I think I missed two questions but that doesn't mean I will have an 80 percent on the test since each question can be worth more or less.  To be honest though, I wouldn't have gotten as many questions correct without my math teacher postponing the homework to Mondy.  Luckily my math teacher Brian Jue was nice enough to let us turn in our homework on Monday instead of the usual due date off every Friday.  If I had to do the homework in that class this week, I would of have gotten a zero on the the exam.  I haven't gotten my score for my calculus exam yet so I don't know how well or poorly I did.