Speedy Tips for Online Degree Completion: Tips for Test Taking and Paper Writing

By Christopher S. Everett


As excited as you are about returning to college, you may be a little nervous about the tests and papers that will be allotted to you on the path to your online degree completion. Nonetheless take each challenge one step at a time and you'll be surprised by how smoothly your online degree completion will go!

Unlike highschool and elementary school, at the traditional 4 year degree level, instructors are much less certain to pull "pop" quizzes, so you should have ample notice before any tests are given, or any papers are due. This fact gives you room to plan well ahead for study times for your tests, and research and writing times for your papers, as you move closer to your online degree completion. Take advantage of that planning time!

It isn't a brilliant idea to wait until the very last minute to either study for a test or to scribble a paper. Instead , to make your online degree completion as smooth as it can be, plan to start studying for a test at least 4 days before the exam. Break your studying up into manageable pieces of time. Fatigue is usually a possibility during online degree completion, and you simply cannot study for 8 hours straight without getting tired and necessarily losing some of the material you are endeavoring to remember. As an alternative if you want eight hours of study time to get ready for the test, start four days before the test and study the material two hours at a time.

An additional online degree completion tip for test-taking, also to circumvent the fatigue factor, is to go to bed early the night before you take the test, and get an abundance of sleep before you start the exam. With online degree completion, rest is particularly crucial, since almost all of your examswill be given by distance, and when you are not rested, you can misread items on your computer screen, leading you to give incorrect answers.

Also crucial to test-taking for your online degree completion is the need for you to meticuously read and follow all directions. General knowledge dictates that you answer the questions you know first, and then come back to the ones you don't know. That works splendidly unless the instructor has set up your test in such a fashion that you can not return to prior questions. Reading the instructions and following directions will help hinder you from making those mistakes, permitting your online degree completion to progress smoothly.

Similar time management skills will help you with the term papers and projects some of your instructors may allot you as you work toward your online degree completion. Do not wait till the last minute to start researching and writing your term paper, or complete your group project "what are you intending to do if the material you need is simply not available? As an alternative start researching your term paper early on, and be ready to formulate an outline to use for writing well before the term paper is due. Similarly, since many instructors like to allot group work as a part of your online degree completion, meet early and frequently with your group; divide the work assignments for the group project up carefully, and follow up on your part while checking on the progress of others in your group. It's a good rule of thumb whenever it's possible to have either the term paper or the group project prepared for submission at least one or a couple of days before the term paper or project is actually due. This will give you some time to study everything in its last form as one last time before you have got to submit it.

Last minute work is to be avoided whenever it's possible as you work hard toward your online degree completion. Arrange your work thoughtfully, break your time up as wanted to get things done, and you may sail through your online degree completion without effort.




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