How To Score Good Marks In Board Exam In Short Time?

by Vijay Garg

These are some basic and helpful tips to prepare for your board exams a month before the commencement of your board examinations.

What are the simplest ways to get good marks in board examinations? This is a very simple and the most common question, which occurs mostly in every student’s mind and students who are magnetised to books are likely to get worried about good marks in each subject.

These tips are really useful and after researching more than 200 students, we find that if an average student follows these tips, s/he will score more than 90 per cent in any board examination. Students who are preparing for board examinations, and other examinations should know all these tips and keep these on your mind.

So keep working hard for your ambitions and follow all the steps given below to score good marks in your Board examinations.

Time Management: Daily Routine

Time is a killer. A thought came into my mind that, “if you didn’t care for time, time will never give you a chance to care for the thing you needed”. That is simple, time is one of the most dangerous things, you should take care of. Make a chart for your daily routine and give maximum time to your study. Suppose you spend six hours in your bed and the rest 18 hours must be used for your examination preparation.

A student is never pressured for earning and other family matters. You are a student so give maximum time to your study.

Your daily routine must be like, waking up at 4 o’clock, taking 15 min to be fresh and having a cup of tea/coffee. Then open your book and study till 7 O’clock.

Then go for an important morning walk, then have your breakfast till 8 O’clock. If you are at home then again collect your notes on other subjects and start practicing. Don’t study more than two hours continuously, take some breaks in between.

Around 1 O’clock take your lunch and then take a nap for 45 min. Then again get ready for your examination preparation.

In the evening you must go with your friends for some entertainment or physical activities. Then around 7 O’clock start your study and then have your dinner before 9 O’clock. After your dinner, you must revise all the things you read the whole day. Go to bed before 10 O’clock and revise the chart for the next day.

Having Good Food

Healthy food, water, and juice are high in energy and protein, which helps your brain to work fast and also helps in remembering what you studied.

Almost 70 per cent of the human brain is filled with water, so you must know the importance of water. Regularly drink water and drink more than two litres a day.

Well, food will help you to focus on your study and this will also make you physically strong.

Doing Meditation

Make a hobby of doing meditation. First two weeks you will feel it is useless but once you realise the benefits of meditation. You will become habitual of it.

We got some queries from our students, one of them was – Sir, I can’t focus on studying, when I sit at the desk then after a few minutes I realise my mind diverts to other things. Every time I try to focus on study I get disturbed with useless thoughts, so please help us.

For those students, we have only one solution and that is to do meditation and you will be focused on your study. Regularly do meditation for 30 minutes at a peaceful place and see the result.

Sleep Well

Taking rest gives us pleasure and one of the most enjoyable things is sleeping while you are tired. Students study full day and worry about their examinations. They should not worry about examinations. Students should take a nap or break between long time study.

Don’t study continuously for more than 2 hours. Take a five to 10-minute break between your studies, it will help you to remember what you learnt.

Sleeping is the best experience for anyone, but our parents think that this is examination time so you should not sleep for more than four hours.

I have heard people scolding their children for not sleeping before 11 pm and waking up at 3 am. This is not good for health and you have to pay for it if you are doing so. Take a full six hours of sleep and this relaxation will help you to score good marks.

Challenge Yourself

Challenge yourself means, setting the target for doing things before time and doing better with time. Suppose you got 30 per cent in the first term, then improve yourself and get 50 per cent in the second term. Then work hard and you will get 95 per cent in the final board examination.

You will not succeed until you have not made an ambition to chase. Increase your performance day by day and this will only happen when you will regularly study and follow these steps.

Find Your Weakness

This is important from the perspective of examination, that you should make a note of your weakness whether it’s a subject or a chapter or a topic.

Let’s suppose, you are weak in maths, obviously it will scare you and you will ignore as much as you can. But stop ignoring such a subject because out of five there will be a subject or a chapter which is out of your mind or you are getting bored of it.

Plan Your Study

Make your study plan and include every subject, don’t exclude anything. For a day give some hours to particular subjects, subjects which you find are hard to schedule on top in the early morning.

Then score one interesting subject and keep it aside for the daytime while you get bored of studying pick your interesting subject and your time will not be wasted just looking at books. Don’t forget to take a nap in between.

Revision is an important thing, learn today and revise tomorrow. This key will make you succeed and help you to score well in the board examination. Don’t forget to score subjects and easy subjects. Sometimes students are overconfident about some subjects and in the end, they find sad faces for the worst paper on that same subject.

Clear Your Concept

Sometimes you must use tips and tricks to memorise, don’t ever rote memorize for a few subjects like physics and maths. For physics and maths, you must clear your concepts. But you can’t clear your concept of English, Hindi, Commerce, history and like these subjects.

Solving Sample Papers

Sample papers for board examinations are provided officially but only solving them will not give you such an experience of topper of the class. Collect some sample papers, guess papers and previous year’s papers and then download them and solve them.

Ten to twenty per cent of questions come from sample paper each year so you have to solve the sample paper and, only if you solve the previous 10 years’ paper and sample paper you will get more than 60 per cent marks. And rest 30 per cent you have to prepare from important notes and books.

Scoring Subjects

Never forget English, and Urdu which are the most common and scoring subjects according to the study. If you score more than 95 marks in both subjects and 80 marks in your weak subjects then it will help you to make an average of 90 per cent.

When you are preparing for the board examinations and other examinations, you should give some time for those subjects too, don’t spend all the time practising for tough subjects.

Your scoring subjects or those subjects, which are easy according to you will help you to score well – keep in your mind always.

Your Hand Writing

Good handwriting gives us bonus points, whether we are in first primary or class 12. Examiner always gets impressed with those answer sheets which are keen and clean.

They don’t need to put extra effort into understanding your handwriting. They check thousands of copies and each of them is different. So, make your handwriting different and your answer sheet well-maintained. So, that the examiner will not think about cutting your marks for silly reasons.

It’s all about impressing the examiner so, one of the best ways to impress him/her is a clear answer sheet and neat and clean diagrams.

Take Full time

You are not complete if you leave your answer sheet before three hours, take the full three hours to complete your paper. A paper can’t be too easy to complete within two and a half hours.

If you are done before the time, then check each question correctly and tie your second copy with the first. Don’t forget to mention the second copy as + A or B on the first page or answer sheet.

Your one mark will make a gap of 0.2 per cent for your one mistake and you can go down from 100 per cent to 99.8 per cent. So remember all the little things during the examination.

Group Study Helps

 It will help you if you are studying in a group. No one is perfect and no one knows everything. So describe your answer with your friends and listen to their answer too.

Then you will come to know what was wrong and what is right. Locate your mistakes and keep them in your mind. Improve your answer if you find you missed anything while answering.

Watch the video for that topic which is not clear to you. Audio, video and infographics will help you a lot.

Stay Away from Social Media

One of the disturbing elements is the mobile phone and the second one is Facebook or WhatsApp you are using. It’s time to say goodbye to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other Messenger apps.

These are important too as you are sharing notes. A better option is to use your mom dad or brother’s phone. Because once your phone comes to your hand, time will kill you and you will see the wall after two hours. So avoid these things.

Teaching Others Is Always The Best Way

Separate a day from your daily routine and go with your friends, teach them what you learnt. And believe me, this one is the best method to revise and memorise too.

(Vijay Garg, MSc, BEd has been a Punjab Education Service (PES) officer who retired as a Principal. He has authored several textbooks. He lives in Malout Punjab.)