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chow4me
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Posted: 24 Sep 2008 at 20:12 | IP Logged  

I though this might be a good post on what ya'll did and do on test day.

For me, I always took the test in the afternoon, that way I could oversleep and not feel stressed.  I had time to workout, study some, get food in me and a few redbulls.  Before I got to the test center I downed a couple of aspirin.

Once I goto my station I wrote RTP across the top of my scratch paper really big.  Means read the problem.  #1 reason people miss questions, me included.  We study so many practice questions that we think we know what the question is asking us and then on the exam it's close to the same sitsuation, but a small difference.  Of course you have your token answer, which of course is wrong.  I never took a break during the exam, but gave myself like 2 or 3 minutes of closing my eyes and relaxing before I closed out a section.  More than once an answer popped in my head and I was like duh, and went back to a flagged question and selected the correct one.  Also on the SIMS, I would always do the research question and essay first to maximize points.  That way I would nail those points and try to scrape up some on the other tabs.  I heard too many people never complete the give away point becuase they were stressed and confused on a tab or two.

What else have or do you guys do.  Considering it took months of studying to get to test day, it seems that it IS the most important day to plan.



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sla_mo
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Posted: 24 Sep 2008 at 20:54 | IP Logged  

See, I prefer to get my exam over with in the morning.  My first exam, I got to the test center 45 minutes early and the guy let me in, so I was 45 minutes ahead of the 9AM people.

I too stay at my computer.  If I'm going to take a break, I don't want to take the chance of leaving the computer and during that process, it screws up and kicks me out.

I usually get up a couple hours before the exam and do some more studying...by that time, I sick of looking at it and I want to get it over with.  We'll see next Friday how I do.



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Here is what I did:

FAR: Studied a whole month, weekends mostly and week nights, crammed for a week before the test.

AUD: Barely studied, nice to be an auditor

REG: Cram for a week

BEC: Cram for a week

Test day, study until you drop, worked for me.
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A) Schedule test in the afternoon.

B) Read and re-read specially made flashcards for trouble areas that had a good chance of being on the test.

C) Had a good nights rest the night before.

D) Let myself rest for about 2 hours before I left for prometric.

E) Re-read the flashcards one more time before going into the exam.

F) Relaxed and said to myself..."you studied soo many hours just to blow it. This will really suck if you have to go back and study the same material again so why not just pass it now?"

G) Prayed my computer wasn't cursed.

**Remember, if the test gets harder its not because you're unprepared, its because you are doing well (unless you didn't prepare enough haha)**


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