The exam skills handbook : achieving peak performance [printed text] / Stella Cottrell, Author  . -  2nd . - New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, 2012 . - 278 p. : ill. col. ; 15 mm.
ISBN : 978-0-230-35854-6 : €26.50

Achieving Peak Performance
Want clear guidelines and ideas on what to revise? Keen to feel more positive about taking exams? Eager to improve your memory? If so, this book provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that step-by-step guidance for achieving optimal performance, from forward planning though to last-minute revision strategies, this fully updated edition includes:

- A series of 'ready-made' revision sessions for ideas on how to revise
- A unique approach to exams that draws on techniques used by top athletes for entering a 'zone' for peak performance, so that you can approach your exams with confidence
- Coverage of a broad range of exam types, with two new chapters that cover multiple choice question exams and how to manage different types of exams

At whatever exam stage you are at, The Exan Skills Handbook, will energise your exam preparation and give you the edge to succeed.

Contents note:

1. Introduction 2. Where do I start? 3. Getting in 'the zone' [i] Planning for peak performance 4. Getting in 'the zone' [ii] Frames of minds 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 want it 9. Structured revision sessions 10. Stress, health and performance 11. Getting in 'the zone' [iii] seeing success 12. The exam 13. Multiple choice question exams [MCQs] 14. Managing different types of exams