I have taken several exams over the past few years and it has been challenging to the say the least! I am always on the lookout for ways to help bring out the information storedsomewhere in the far corners of my brain just when it's really needed, at exam time.
The following technique is something I discovered along the way and now I rely on it in everyday life. It only works!
Design Your Board Room
Imagine yourself sitting in a large senior executive Board Room. The Board Room is on the top floor of a large office block overlooking the most fantastic view you have ever seen, peaceful and whatever you want it to be. The Board Room is furnished to the highest specification possible with leather executive chairs, modern art décor, plenty of natural light, the temperature is just right and there are plenty of indoor plants and flowers giving off a pleasant calming scent. No expense spared.
You are sitting at the head of the table with a dozen executive places around the plush solid Oak Board Room table and you are in complete control of who enters your Board Room to become your personal advisors.
Call Upon Your Personal Advisors
The trick to successfully answering exam questions using this technique is quite simply to have the right people sitting at your Board Room table advising you. For example, if you were asked a question on health and safety law and you weren't quite sure of the answer, who would you turn to for the answer if you had the chance? Would it be a previous lecturer from your NEBOSH General Certificate? Would it be a colleague from a local IOSH branch group? Would it be one of Health and Safety for Beginners' discussion forum members? Would it be your mentor or boss? It doesn't matter who it is. Just make sure you think of the person you feel can answer you instantly on the particular topic and place them in your Board Room sitting in one of the plush leather executive chairs.
Then, when the question comes up under exam conditions (or during everyday life), simply ask your health and safety advisor and let them give you the answer. They will give you the correct answer every single time, without fail (as long as you have studied the subject that is).
Use this technique to fill your Board Room with people you trust to give you good solid advice on any topic you like, from COSHH, fire, construction, occupational health, work at heights, confined spaces or even the NEBOSH action verbs! It's your Board Room and you are in control of who enters it to become your personal advisors.
Use Your Imagination
If you feel your Board Room is beginning to bulge at the seams with advisors, that's just fantastic. The more the merrier! Simply make your Board Room bigger!
This technique doesn't just work under exam conditions, it can work in your everyday lives if you are simply looking for advice on a decision that lies ahead of you. It's a simple case of asking yourself - "what would ______ have said in this situation?"
The technique works because psychologically even if you make yourself believe you can't remember, or if you are unsure of how to decide on something, you will simply have faith in your advisors not to forget and to say the right thing, then you will get your answer.
Tell yourself often enough that you can't remember and guess what? You won't remember!
Tell yourself you will remember, or your advisors will help you to remember, and guess what? You will remember!
It only works!
This article is my own experience, shared in the hope it helps you. My website works on the same principal. It's all about sharing best practice.
My site, Health and Safety for Beginners (HSfB), is a site designed to keep people safe and healthy at work by helping people with their studies and day-to-day work life as an health and safety professional.
We gather up tools people have created for their own studies and share it out, all at no cost.
Anyway, please come along and see for yourself, we really are quite unique.
There is no such thing as a 'stupid' or 'daft' health and safety question!
Many thanks for reading.
John
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