Checklist for exam

Make sure you have your exam strategy ready long before the exam. Be familiar with which questions you are planning to answer.

Have your pens, pencil, calculator (check battery), geometry set ready well before the exam time.

2½ hours for exam = 25 mins per question. Exam starts at 9:30, you should be well into your 2nd question by 10am. If you have choices, do not spend too long deciding which questions you are going to do. Circle the questions you are going to do and draw a pencil line through the questions you are definitely not going to attempt.

Write clearly. Number all questions and parts of questions. Don't waste time rewriting the question. Highlight your answer clearly.

Keep all parts of each question together. It is a good idea to keep questions in order. If you have to come back to re-attempt a question later in the exam, it will be easier to find it.

Read questions carefully, do your work and then read question again to make sure you have done what was asked and to make sure you format your answer properly (correct to 2 decimal places, as a fraction, in surd form, in km/h etc.).

Attempt all questions. Where there is a part (i), (ii), (iii) etc., don't assume that if you cannot finish part (i) that you cannot attempt part (ii), (iii). If you are running out of time remember how to get attempt marks - “any correct substitution”.

Only attempt a 7th question after you have checked the first 6.

Some students find it reassuring to write all the formulae you have memorised down as soon as you are told that you may start.

Remember, for every blunder (-3 marks) you lose ½%, so be careful!