INTRODUCTION
The subject “achieving examination success” has generations through generations being an issue of discuss especially because of the myriad of opinions that seem to wake over it. While examinations aren’t the best test of one’s capacity, it has remained the only way to test how much a person knows.
Modern day education with its retinue of books leaves many students thinking that it can never be possible for anyone to get right through examinations with ease. Students continue to hope there could be short routes through the examination systems or they could do without it altogether. Stories of dropouts who have attained success are popular among students who think so and so dropped out of school and still made headway so why not I. Actually the fear is that of passing the examinations that arrive not necessarily because of the failure of the academic system being employed.
Examinations have always proved unpopular for many students (both young and old). The knowledge that examinations are close by will send initial shivers around even the serious students in any class however prepared they are. Students often develop examination fever and pray that examinations are postponed. In a case the examination is postponed, the students elope in joy.
It’s saddening in recent times the dwindling fortunes of students in local and international examinations. When one considers the amount of inputs that government puts into the education system, one would expect to see students soaring with high scores in their examinations. It’s not being the case though and it has become a big issue for worries.
In a world where getting education is pivotal to how success and what opportunities arrives, passing examinations will remain a precondition for getting that success at least for some time, till a new system arrives. Many students know they just have to get around their examinations and those who can’t choose to get help through malpractice.
Malpractice has become an issue of concern as government fights hard to battle the menace with little success. Parents and students, school proprietors and agents forge common front in support of the menace because of the immediate gain that arrives. Sadly though, the future suffers as we send out half-baked graduates to society who becomes unfit to solve the myriad of society’s problems.
As a teacher, over the years interacting with pupils and students, I have observed that the problem is not actually in the student’s ability to study and pass their examinations. It is in their not knowing how best to study and pass the examinations. Students want to feel the joy of entering the examination hall confidently with their pen and pencils and smile out with joy knowing that what they have answered is good enough to give them the success they need.
Over classroom interactions, I have observed that most students don’t know how best to read to stick to their brains. They even think they aren’t good enough to pass their examinations or passing examinations is actually a task for genius. Some sincerely want to get around their failures but they seem handicapped maybe. They fear they may be mocked by fellow highflying classmates or their situation is actually an impossible one. The good news is their fears do not hold water.
After series of interactions, personal studies and experiments, I conclude that every brain is a genius. Personally too, I had my set of challenges that I had to fight over. I had my examination fears and failures but I learnt too and I am sharing those secrets that I have applied over the course of my studying here in this book.
There are actually no secret to passing examinations and soon you will discover too that it is no secret. It is a natural situation that arrives when we decide to align ourselves with the natural situations around us. Passing examinations comes naturally.
When I share these common secrets to my students and friends, they often laugh them off as jokes but those who actually follow them share testimonies to the fact that they work like magic. Sincerely, the ideas may seem as mysteries and like things you already know. If you know them, congratulations but read through again, you will discover you never knew them.
Passing examinations and getting As right at them is so easy that you will discover when you get through this book that you had actually being wasting your ability all the while and you should have gotten better grades the last time than you do now.
There is no limit to how much your brain can do and that examination is mincemeat when you know it is actually no big deal to pass examinations and the student who is getting first-class is no way better than the guy who manages to get through school with a pass. Those who have actually gotten through examinations doing better will always say they never did what others never did; they just spent more time doing what others did.
During my days at the engineering faculty of my university, my friends and I always wondered at a tall pretty lady, a fellow classmate who always performed better than the rest of us males. She actually ran away as the best graduating student in our faculty. My mates had the notion that she was perhaps having extra affairs with the lecturers or was bribing her way. I observed however after carefully studying her movements that she was actually not doing what the other students including me wasn’t doing. But she actually had a secret, a secret you will discover in this book as you read.
There is so much in this book that by the time you are through with it, you would be writing the next examination with ease and with better performance. There are actually twenty of them and that’s so much to keep you probing your mind. You necessarily will not need all the twenty. All you may need may just be a combination of five of them.
The principles are mostly from personal experience and classroom experiments. They are written in simple language and down to earth. Chew them, they could be funny but think beyond the immediate laughter to the reasoning behind them. Have a Happy read.