How to Be a Better Test Taker

Oh, no. A test is coming up, and you're sure you won't pass! Numbers, days, and order is jumbled in your head. There's stress on you and there is no way you can focus. So instead of just sitting around praying for a miracle to happen, after you follow these steps you are sure not to worry when a test is coming up. Let's ace this test and become a better test taker!

1. Take out your notebook and textbook. These two have all your information that you will need to know. So don't think that you don't know anything. You have it all written down in your notebook and textbook.
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   Quickly read through your notebook
   Read through all the questions the teacher gave you. The questions that the teacher assigned you could possibly be on your test. First read the question, think about the answer in your head, then check your answer. This will give you the idea of what it is like to think about the question. If you got your answer correct, well done. If not,good try. To help you remember try to find a way to relate the question to the answer.
3. Read all extra notes that you have written down. Make sure you get them right and that you can clearly understand everyone of them. That shouldn't take too long, and should be easy.
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   Study hard
   When you have finished all the directions, you are pretty much done. Don't worry, if you're still scared, remember that you have studied and all the information will sink into your brain. Good luck on your test.

How to Remember Lists of Words With the Roman Room Trick

Do you ever need to remember a list of items, but don't have a pen and paper on hand? Using the Roman Room trick, you can remember a great many things. Basically, you make a room in your mind. Mentally, you go to your room and look at it every day to make sure you remember everything. Whenever you want to remember a new item, you change something in your room, and when you revisit that room in your mind, you'll remember that item. Here's how to make this work for you.

1. Create and memorize a room in your head. Make it as big and beautiful as you wish. Smaller rooms are easier to remember, but big rooms work too.
2. Spend time each day going through your room. Don't change anything; just memorize every detail about your room.
3. Test yourself by making a list of 10 words to remember tomorrow. For example, consider the following list:
   • a shoe
   • a dog
   • a desk
   • the date 12/09/1990
   • a cow
   • your grandpa Billy Bob
   • a turkey
   • $20 you owe your landlady
   • a computer
   • eggs
4. If you want to remember all these things, just change things in your room in ways that will remind you. You can add an ugly shoe pattern to the walls, have a barking dog on your couch or table, put an elaborate desk against the wall, write the date in neon pink on the frame of a famous painting on the wall, put a fat cow in the doorway, have Grandpa Billy Bob eating sloppy joes on your new white carpet, have a Thanksgiving turkey on the dining room table, have your landlady standing there yelling with a bill in her hand for $20, a broken computer on the floor, and eggs smashed into the door. These are all just ideas - you can use anything you want to memorize.
5. Try to remember your whole list the next day. If you didn't remember some of it, it could be because you didn't make the change noticeable or memorable enough. If you just wrote the date on the wall, you won't remember it, but if you wrote it in big neon pink letters on the bottom of the Mona Lisa, you'll have a better chance of remembering it.
6. Review your Roman room regularly, until you know it like the back of your hand. That way, when you make a change, it'll stand out, just like if somebody made a drastic change to your bedroom, you'd notice immediately.

• If you want to store a vast amount of information I'd advise you to use the memory palace method for storing and recalling information.
• The Roman Room is better for short lists, but can be used for long lists as well.
• If you want to be able to remember longer lists, try the Memory trick (see related wikiHows below).
• Try not to memorize it all at once. Take baby steps, gradually moving up.
• Try to find someone else willing to learn this technique with you.
• This exercise may have originated as a Buddhist meditation. You can find this entire exercise in the book "Path Notes of an American Ninja Master" by Glenn Morris.