Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer failure.....in A-Level

I posted some news to ask for help about using PR to fight against my A-Level EXAM about 1 year ago
the exam result.......greatly failure.

Now I am going to retake my A-Level,this is my unity chance.

I am not quite sure that "4-11% is useful in a printed material" said in the PR instuction book.

Understanding is not enough. For getting a good grade. I must FULLY understand and familiarize with the materials and do the SAME SET OF past paper fews times, so that when the exam questions enter my eyes, the answer will rush out from my brain as fast as the lightning(exam time allowed is too short but very important)

SO the question is :
How can I due with the information that is already known before??????????
Remember, my aim is very very very familiar
just like you familiar with your gf's name

PS: the PR tip of youngprer's homepage is good.

experience PRers, AlexK, youngprer, Pls help me!!!!!!!!

tell us exactly everything you did when you failed the exam the first time. that way we will be in a much better position to help you. photoread4me.

What on earth are you telling yourself??????

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using PR to using PR to fight against my A-Level EXAM about 1 year ago
the exam result.......greatly failure. EXAM about 1 year ago
the exam result.......greatly failure.

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Success!!!! You succeeded exactly at your aim! "to fight against my A-Level EXAM" You wanted to go against your exam and that's exactly what you got! A battle and you won if the implantation was you wanted to succeed at it.

To clarify usual self talk is "passing my A-level exam" Then to say "fighting against my A-level exam" What you're really telling yourself is that you are fighting against passing your A-level Exams and therefore you were 100% successful!

So my first recommendation is that you watch you're self talk as well as what you are saying to others about your intention. The mind is literal and to suggest that this is an error because English is not your first language would also be incorrect. Even when translating you use words that reflect the working of your mind towards your goal and in this case you seem to have a subconscious wish to fail. Like I said watch what you say to yourself and others as they are your cues.

Your aim isn't for working with PhotoReading You're looking for memory tricks and techniques. I suggest the memory books by Harry Lorayne and Tony Buzan would be of more help.

Remember to make mind maps or notes from what you've studied and then to review them at least once a day for a week then once a week for a month then once a month. You're review will show if more studying is required.

If you already know the information then the problem might be your approach/strategy during the exam. Time is often adequate if you alocate a time limit to each question marginally short of the time that might be recommended for the test. Then when the time you allocate for the question is up move on to the next question. Most problems arise when time is wasted on a question that you find difficult to answer and not spending it on getting the ones you can answer done first. If you calculate your time properly you'll be through to the end of the test with time to spare to go back and fix any questions you couldn't answer earlier.

Alex

[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited December 30, 2003).]

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Originally posted by AlexK:
My experience definitely supports this idea. I finished my AP American exam (the multiple choice and all of the short-answers except part of one with something like 55 minutes to spare for the DBQ (big document-based question essay). In fact, I ended up finishing with just enough time because I spent extra time organizing and developing my essay to a large extent. Then I went back and was able to easily finish that last short-answer question which I had been taking too long on with too many elaborations.

With the multiple choice questions in the beginning, I had done better in budgeting my time, and there were three or four which I wasn't sure about, but the best answers came quite clearly, actually, when I went through the questions with a second quick pass that couldn't have lasted more than a minute or so.

So listen to AlexK! People waste their time doing everything from reading or studying to running to dishwashing to test-taking with the illusion of (misdirected) extra "effort" as the way to force their way through in order to achieve success by sheer willpower. I have certainly done this before. Only recently have I learned to let go of math problems that I don't immediately find the answer to and come back to them later. This simple technique can make my homework take anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour less than it would otherwise!

Focused energy is of course the best for achieving any goal. But what most people don't realize is that that focus must be directed towards an efficient method; otherwise it is effort wasted, and that sure is exhausting and frustrating for a person to witness.

-Cameron

If you already know the information then the problem might be your approach/strategy during the exam. Time is often adequate if you alocate a time limit to each question marginally short of the time that might be recommended for the test. Then when the time [b]you allocate for the question is up move on to the next question. Most problems arise when time is wasted on a question that you find difficult to answer and not spending it on getting the ones you can answer done first. If you calculate your time properly you'll be through to the end of the test with time to spare to go back and fix any questions you couldn't answer earlier.

Alex

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That is the EXTACTLY reason that I failed in my last A-Level Exam and because of this reason, I must wait one more year.

There was 5 subjects in my Exam. Pure Mathematics is my best-prepare subject but I just scored E........TIME, is the main problem, I spend quite amount of time in a difficult question and cannot slove it. After that, when I due with the remaining questions, my mind was in choas !!!!!!

At the fews months before my exam, I almost abandoned PR.
To well prepare the exam, I must do about 10 years past paper in every subjects(except Chinese and English)

That is what every students in Hong Kong do to due with the public exam.
every teacher also advice us just study the textbook is absolutly not enough

Do anyone here have any experience about preparing public exam
e.g.SAT & GCE A-Level

P.S. Hong Kong A-LEVEL Exam is the most difficult Exam in the world, I think

I think I want to mention is
at this month, I almost dream about the story related to my failure of A-Level Exam NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!

The image is:
1. I got the exam result card and it displayed I all fail (Last year I still could get a full pass)
2. I entered a "low banding" institute like some community college that I STRONGLY dislike.
3. The image was in a few days before Chemisty Exam, my Chem teacher discuss with us, said sth like "fail in exam is not a big due, take it easy, i know everyone of you did your best,"
and at that moment I feel I have not enough to fight

Dream is the communication between inner ming and conscious mind, then, what is the explaination of that dreams.
Did my inner mind tell me that I shall fail
or ................................................ more terrible -----the prognosticate
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Like I said you need to watch what you're telling yourself.

If you get stuck on an exam problem move on. Work out your time and how much time you have to answer each question at the beginning of the test and stay with each question no longer than the allocated time. Like I said keep some time left over for a quick review and to fix any answers that you couldn't finish.
http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000707.html

Dana posted this from Paul Scheele on how to handle test.
If as you say you need to 'remember' all the information use memory techniques.

On the whole your post seems to be asking us to change you only you can do that.

Alex