HOW TO WRITE JAMB AND WAEC EXAMINATION WITH 30 MINUTES SPILLING OVER
“Every examination test for three things in geneal: knowledge, speed and accuracy”. Scoring high in JAMB UTME is not only dependent on the amount you know but the number of questions you are able to shade correctly in 3hours 30minutes. JAMB UTME is one of the national examinations that good time management determines who will pass and who will fail. Many students complain after writing the examination that they were still on Use of English when the supervisor announced 1 hour left. With this secret, you will not be on the complaint counter.
Here is a system to write JAMB OR WAEC and have 30 minutes spilling over:
* Have a relaxed mind after you have cleared at the entrance gate. It means you are qualified for the examination.
* While the invigilators are getting the materials for the examination, don’t discuss with those around, rather a simple prayer can give you more confidence and a relaxed mind. Let your mind roam around the things you’ve read.
* Once you get the question paper, read the instruction on the first page carefully.
* Shade your data into the answer sheet as neatly as possible.
* Before going into the questions, take about six deep breath to allow a good inflow of oxygen and as well energize your brain for the task at hand.
* Since you have studied the past questions, you should have allotted time to different subjects with the order they will be answered. Give the least time to the subject you know best and larger portion of the time to the ones that may be more difficult.
Here is the order I used when I sat JAMB UTME
Chemistry ====== 35 minutes
Mathematics===== 40 minutes
Physics========= 45 minutes
Use of English===== 60 minutes
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180 minutes
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This left 30 minutes as a spill over for me and I did every correction I needed, cross checked and was confident.
* Start with the questions you know both in WAEC and JAMB so as to build self confidence. This will let your confidence rise such that the fear of failure will disappear forever. Nervousness results to careless mistake in examinations, but with your self confidence raised to the peak, nervousness will fall into the bottomless pit.
* Be sure to shade into the right portion of the answer script bearing the subject you are tackling at the moment. A very brilliant friend of mine failed JAMB UTME the first time he sat the examination because he shaded different subjects in entirely different columns from where they were meant to be. When he realized his mistake, time was already against him.
* This point is very important: have a total understanding of each of the questions you read before you go on to answer.
* The most important for JAMB CANDIDATES: if you have practiced JAMB past questions, you will agree with me that answers from first impression are not always the correct answers. This is because the examiner puts himself in your shoes, such that whatever that will come to your mind first as an answer will be in the options, notwithstanding, the real answer will also be there. JAMB top scorers don’t shade answers based on first impression. Rather, they read and get a good understanding of the question and as well solve out the correct answers. This is the biggest secret of JAMB examination. Remember, top scoring is not shading what you think should be the answer but shading the correct answers.
* Any question that tends to be tough, mark it with a big asterisk and circle it. It will make it easier to be spotted when you return to them.
NOTE: scoring high in this examination is not only dependent on the amount you know but the number of questions you are able to shade correctly in hours 30 minutes.
On the average, JAMB expects that you answer each question within 45 seconds. So any question exceeding that is trying to steal your scores instead of adding to it. Mark such questions with asterisk.
* When you must have finished the ones you know, don’t forget to return to the one marked with asterisk. By this time, you will get a clearer understanding of the question as you read it a third time.
* Since there is deduction of marks for wrong answers, attempt all questions. A shot in the dark is always better than nothing.
* Your presentation matters alot. No matter how intelligent you are, you stand the risk of making low grades if you cannot present your work in a legible manner. If you are writing WASSCE, try to make your work legible and as neat as possible.
* Submit your papers according to the supervisor’s instructions.
* Pack your materials and go home for a good rest.
If you are writing WASSCE or its equivalence, and you have a paper the following day, don’t discuss the ones you’ve written because there is nothing you can change in them again. Rather prepare for the papers ahead.
This system is what you need to top the list of JAMB AND WAEC.
JAMB AND WAEC RECORDS ARE AT STAKE BECAUSE ANYONE WHO APPLIES THE PRINCIPLE WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK IS BOUND TO BREAK THEM BEYOND REPAIR.
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