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What grades will you find in your envelope on results day?
Discover 31 test-taking strategies from the new science of recall and performance, to maximize your mark on exam day, and unleash your full grade’s potential.
Months, maybe years, of work are behind you, and it all comes down to just a few hours in the exam hall.
Most students don’t realize it, but there is a science to just about every aspect of performing on exam day: from the psychology of delivering under pressure, to techniques for maximizing your memory recall. This is a universal toolbox of techniques, applying to the exams sat by millions of students in middle school and high school, right through to specialist exams on tough university courses or for prestigious professional qualifications.
Written by Cambridge University educated psychologist and learning science researcher William Wadsworth, Outsmart Your Exams offers a unique guide to the art and science of winning more marks than you might have thought possible on exam day. William shines a lens on every component of a winning exam performance—from what to think about on your way to the exam to how you read and process questions—to give you an edge on your classmates at every single stage.
A robust set of strategies to increase your grades, and the best part, NO extra studying required!
So whether you’re sitting SATs, APs, GCSEs, A-Levels, or exams at college or university, give yourself the very best possible shot at success, as you learn how to
- Crush exam-week nerves with the ultimate “winner’s mindset”
- Develop the ultimate exam-week master schedule to execute the perfect preparation routine, every day
- Eliminate uncertainty with a bespoke gameplan for every paper
- Keep mind and body match-fit and primed to perform
- Maximize your score on longer essay-style questions with a rigorous approach to reading, choosing, and decoding questions
- Wow the examiner by writing answers that exude “top student” status
- Deploy smart tactics to win as many marks off the examiner as possible when the going gets tough
- Take your memory recall to new levels with a procedure for digging those hard-to-remember facts out of your brain
Think you already know what it takes to pass your exams? Think again . . .
“Absolutely wonderful: this really is a masterful guide . . . I always thought I knew a lot about exam technique, but reading this book I discovered several new ideas” —Dr Aled Walker, Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge
“An exceptional set of tools to ace the exam . . . I would recommend to anyone who would like to significantly improve their results” —Alexander Keller, university student
“Some of the tips included are ingenious . . . a pleasure to read” —Alex, taking professional qualifications
Outsmart Your Exams sifts through decades of scientific research, distills the experience of hundreds of superstar educators and high-achieving students, and throws in top tips from seasoned examiners themselves, to bring you the ultimate set of test-taking techniques to have you sailing through exam season like a pro.
Students around the world are reporting better grades with the help of Outsmart Your Exams.
The only question now is, are you going to be one of them?
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