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2. About Me: I Md. Zahid Hasan, founder of the BCS Exam-Tips
Blog http://bcsexam.com. I am a BCS Cadre Officer and have been
serving at Bangladesh Civil Service since 2011. Read more about
me at http://bcsexam.com/about-me/

3. Objectives
 To help you initiate a smart preparation for the exam
 To introduce you with exam psychology
 To introduce you with exam strategies
 To rectify your exam presentation
 To ensure extra marks in the BCS Written Exam

4. Phases of the Presentation
 1. Pre-Exam Preparation
 2. The Days Before the Exam
 3. The Night before the Exam
 4. The Exam Day
 5. During Examination
 6. Exam Psychology
 7. Exam Presentation

5. 1. Pre-Exam Preparation
 i) Motivation
 Your Brain is better than you think of
 God has democratically distributed brains and everybody has one.
 Get inspired by the life history of Stephen Hawking and Atiur
Rahman.
Remember the motto, Man can be destroyed but never be defeated.

6. The competitors are of the same ability
but the winner leads by an inch.

7. Bangladesh Bank Governor, Dr Atiur Rahman:
From Cow Boy to Governor

8. I a a rele tless orker! Stephe

9. My father used to call me a stupid!

10. God has democratically distributed brain and
e erybody has o e! No difference between a general
perso s brai a d Ei stei s brai .

11. Mental Set-up!

12. Pre-Exam Preparation
 Mental Set-up & Piloting the Syllabus
 Mental Maladies: Procrastination : To be or not to be
 The Hardest part of an assignment is to start
 Now or Never should be your study-motto.
 Lower the standard of your work a bit.
 Learn to say know
 Study according to a smart schedule
 Pilot myour project
 Study just to fulfill your dream, not your parents
(Failing to plan is planning to fail.)

13. Creating a Learning Environment

14. Creating a learning Environment
Reading Room Set-up:
 Reading Table Set-up: Set it against the wall
 Decoration of the Wall: No fancy calendar or poster
should be hung.
 Not Using the Table for sleeping and the Bed for
reading.
 Learn the smart use of your cell-phone: Switch it off
while studying.
 Study in a well-lit room.

15. 2. The Days Before the Exam:
How to maximise outcome from your study.
 Restorf Theory of Maximising your memory
recall:
• You tend to recall from the beginning and the
ending part of your lesson.
• One can recall less from the middle of his learning
topic.
• Solution: Break your study-duration into small
units.

16. Revision Miracles!

17. Revision Miracles!
80% of memorised information gets lost after 24 hours!
 Scientific way of Revisions can maximise your recall:
1st Revision: After 10 minutes. (Memorised information lasts
for one day after this.)
2nd Revision: After 24 hours.( Information lasts for one week
after 2nd Rev.)
 3rd Revision: After 7 days (1 week). (Information lasts for one
month after 3rd rev.)
 4th Revision: After 1 month. (Information lasts for one year
after 4th rev.)

18. Dra a Mi d Map of your learnt
lesson!

19. How to De-code Your Memory
 Enliven your memory through SMAHIN SCOPE of
memory code!
 S= Sensuality Feel, Touch …A touch can instill faith
 M= Movement ( Make it dynamic and have tea with you)
 A= Association ( Link them with your permanent positive memory)
 H= Humour (Make fun with info)
 ) = )magination Float it through image… )magination is better than
knowledge
 N = Number ( Number force memory to stay forever).
 S= Symbolism ( Transform it to implied different story )
 C= Colour ( Stimulates memory system)
 O= Order (Discipline you information)
 P = Positive Image ( Memory tends to block the negative incidents)
 E = Exaggeration ( Swell)

20. 2. The Days Before the Exam
 How do you count your remaining days of exam?
 Deactivate Facebook and Cell-phone.
 Review your answers with some good friends in a
group study.
 Practice Quantum Sign.
 Talk to your teacher about your concerns.
 Consider whether you have learning disability or an
anxiety disorder
 Count your remaining days by counting your
remaining study-hours.

21. 3. The Night before the Exam

22. Fig-2

23. The Night Before the Exam
 Sleep: Sleep by pm. )f you dont sleep by pm,
you ll mess up physically and mentally in exam hall.
 Food: Dont take heavy, rotten and junk foods in the
night.
Drinks: Never take in Coffee, Tea or Cola.
Stress Management: Deep Breath and meditation
 Prepare your tools and stuff: Admit-card, pen etc.
Review, not learn new things (Like the review of a
base-ball player before a knock.)

24. 4. The Exam Day
 Hours Before the Exam
 Dress: Put on loose and comfortable clothes.
 Water: Have sufficient water and vacate your bladder.
 Wear a watch
 Arrive Early( have a look at the seating arrangement,
lighting)
 Avoid Nervous Students: Nervous candidates reduce
your confidence level.

25. 5. During Examination
 Stress Management (Exam is not everything in life)
 Quantum Sign
 Deep Breath
 Positive Visualisation
 Read Directions Carefully
 Dont Look around, focus on yourself
 Budget your time
 Take each question equally important
 Dont underestimate yourself

26. During Examination
 Never get tense seeing others taking
additional papers.
 Never be worried seeing circulation of
questionnaire late.
 Make sure you have sufficient time for the
last question.

27. 6. The Exam Psychology

28. How do you manage your stress?

29. 7. Exam Presentation

30. Exam Paper Layout

31. Errors in Exam Script Decoration
 Margins:
# Upper Side/Header: 1 inch
# Left-Side: 1.5
#Right Side: 0.5 inch
# Bottom Side: 1 inch

32. Which colour do you use? Use Black-ink for
writing answers and blue-ink for high-lighting.

33. How do you pen through a wrong
answer?
Just pen-through the line with a single
straight-line.

34. Fatal Errors In Exam
 Dont forget to get back to your skipped question
 A blank answer is always a wrong answer(put a check
mark)
 Answering a qn. Twice
 Transferring ans. Incorrectly from scratch
 Ignoring the clock ( 5 mins left but 5 ans to write)
 Thinking too much

35. Strategies to fight the Qns.
 Deadly Spelling/Punctuation/grammar
mistake/ overwriting at the beginning
should be avoided.
 Content is King! Yes, write down quality
answers with proper documentation.

36. Strategies: Scanning the ques.
 Some questions need more time.
 Some qns. need more points.
 Some qns. need more drawings.
 Some qns. need more diagrams.

37. Strategies: Starting with more
difficult question.
 You will get exhausted
 You will get stumble at the beginning
 You will get demoralised ,nd may lose much time to
cover.

38. Do you adopt wrong strategies?
 Writing too much or too little ( A short answer
covering each points is better than long answer
detailing everything)
 What if you fail to answer in due time?
 You drop your writing style
 You drop proper paragraphing

39. Do you blackmail your examiner?
Never cheat the examiner with providing
wrong information and quotations.

40. About Me: I Md. Zahid Hasan, founder of the BCS Exam-Tips
Blog http://bcsexam.com. I am a BCS Cadre Officer and have been
serving in Bangladesh Civil Service since 2011. Read more about
me at http://bcsexam.com/about-me/

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