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Learning Commons
When writing a test, it is certainly helpful to know the course material, but it can also be helpful to know how to approach writing an exam. This page will cover strategies that you can use for different types of test questions to make your test-taking experience easier and less stressful. At the bottom of this page are resources for managing exam stress and anxiety.
Do you find multiple choice questions challenging? Follow these strategies to make multiple choice questions easier and less stressful.
Short answer and essay questions are common exam questions that test your deeper understanding of course concepts. Use these strategies to help you confidently tackle this kind of question.
Math and science problems present some challenges that the other types of questions do not, largely because they require problem solving skills that are not required of other questions.
Here are some tips:
Student Success
This book offers study skills and practices for college and university students to help them make a positive transition to post-secondary education, learn how to be a successful student, and make the most of their learning experience. This textbook was created to provide a resource for the ABE provincial level course, Student Success, and it provides resources to meet all the required and optional learning outcomes. The course can be used an elective course towards the BC Adult Graduation Diploma. Students don’t need to be taking a Student Success course to benefit from this text. Post-secondary students can use this material to help them become better, more successful students. Faculty can use any parts of it to give to their students in any of their courses as applicable. Others (anyone) can use applicable life skills chapters. The book is written so each chapter stands on its own as an independent topic and doesn’t require knowledge of previous chapters, so students and instructors can use only the sections they need.
