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Many students wish that their instructors would give them sample exams to help them study for the real ones. I hope to convince you that making a sample exam for yourself is really easy. Better still, every student that I have known who has done this has found that it improved his/her grade. All you need is a few pieces of scrap paper to do this.
Write down a couple exercises of "medium difficulty" from each of the sections that were covered prior to the exam. Don't pick the easiest exercises you can find but don't pick the hardest ones either. If you have been given any specific study information from your instructor, use this as an outline for what to include.
~ DON'T work the exercises out as you write them down.
~ DO write out brief instructions so you will know what to do with each one.
~ DO leave yourself ample space to work under each exercise.
When you get to the last exercise, put all your books and notes away and take this sample exam as if you were taking the real exam. The only difference between this and the real exam is that the real exam will be typed!
Doing this will clearly point out what you really know well and what you need to review a bit more. It's always good to find this out before the actual exam! Another thing this does is take the exercises out of the context of the section from which they came. You may have been comfortable doing exercises in any give section because you were operating within a certain context. A "hidden" source of confusion on exams is that the questions are out of that context. If you can do the exercises from this chapter without the comfort of knowing what section you're supposed to be in, then you really know the stuff!
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