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The exam skills handbook : achieving peak performance / Stella Cottrell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave study skillsPublication details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.Description: vi, 234 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780230506534 (pbk.)
  • 0230506534 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.30281 22
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Where do I start? -- 3. Getting in 'The zone' 1. Planning For peak performance -- 4. Getting in 'The zone' 2. Frames Of mind For peak performance -- 5. Exam myths and realities -- 6. What are examiners looking for? -- 7. Revision strategies -- 8. Memory: remembering what we want when we need it -- 9. Structured revision sessions -- 10. Stress, health and performance -- 11. Getting in 'The zone' 3. Seeing success -- 12. The exam -- Appendices: 1. Alternative exam arrangements for students with disabilities and/or syslexia -- 2. Might I be dyslexic? -- 3. Sources of help -- 4. 5-point plan for peak performance -- 5. Planning checklists -- 6. Tracking developments in an area of research.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Open Collection Open Collection FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Open Collection FCUC Library 371.30281 COT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00021798
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Where do I start? -- 3. Getting in 'The zone' 1. Planning For peak performance -- 4. Getting in 'The zone' 2. Frames Of mind For peak performance -- 5. Exam myths and realities -- 6. What are examiners looking for? -- 7. Revision strategies -- 8. Memory: remembering what we want when we need it -- 9. Structured revision sessions -- 10. Stress, health and performance -- 11. Getting in 'The zone' 3. Seeing success -- 12. The exam -- Appendices: 1. Alternative exam arrangements for students with disabilities and/or syslexia -- 2. Might I be dyslexic? -- 3. Sources of help -- 4. 5-point plan for peak performance -- 5. Planning checklists -- 6. Tracking developments in an area of research.