Kenneth Sitolo

5 Fantastic Tips To Help Children Strike Gold In An Exam Are your children looking for a needle in a haystack when it comes to passing their exams? Its time you consider to enter a long road in assisting them to prepare for an exam. Exams are a Goliath to every child. Your children will rarely tell you this but you must know it from your school experience. When children fail, this tend to drive the parents and guardians out of their mind. Are you losing your sleep over the poor performance of your children? It's time you keep your shirt on, even though you think its an uphill task to lend a hand to them. Truly, its not! It requires you to take the bull by its horns and set aside a few minutes a day from your busy schedule. To achieve a flying start, let's leap in! 1. Create a positive attitude in your pleasing children. 2. Assist your children to read class notes 3. Construct questions from their notes 4. Help the children answer the questions you created 5. Discuss the questions children find difficult. 1. How to create a positive attitude in your pleasing children. Do you remember a threat hanging over your head when your teacher told you that he would give you an exam the following week? Fear crept like a giant anaconda, indeed, right down your spine. After all, your children also feels their flesh creep when their teachers announces about an impending examination. At this point, whilst you now have nerves of steel, you might be wondering what to do as a parent to instill confidence in the minds of your children. You are right to wonder —to make no bones about it — this is your responsibility rather than ask your servants and caregivers to do it. Ask your children to mention the marks they want to get after writing an exam. Do they want to get 60%, 80% or even 100%? Importantly, encourage them to aim for cut throat marks. Why should they aim high? They will be ready to be under their own steam by investing more time reading their notes in order to hit the ceiling they set upon themselves. In fact, this will help them to develop a positive attitude and pass with flying colours. Once again, if you are a parent or guardian who burn the midnight oil, you might consider assisting your children during weekends. You have to go all flat out like a lizard in assisting them in your free time. Can you not be a live wire when it comes to assisting your youngsters? Surely, you can! You can keep your head down in supporting your children. 2. Assist your children to read class notes Now that we have examined a tower of strength in cultivating a positive mental attitude, we should now turn our attention on how to help them become winners in preparing for their exams. What can you do to make your children winners? Well, the leading question you must ask them is, "What areas of study is your teacher going to examine?" Science, Maths, Life Skills and many others. "Show me your notes or the books with the information your teacher is going to examine." Let them show you their notes in the areas that they mentioned. For instance, if its Science, the area might concern flowers. Then check the work carefully by focusing on definitions, headings, sub headings, diagrams as well as main points underlined, bulleted or numbered. "What can l do next?" You ask. Well, let your children read their notes aloud. Then help them memorize the definitions, headings, subheadings as well as the main points underlined or numbered. "How can l make them memorize?" By letting them read their notes again and again. Remember, notes are not read as if one is reading a news paper. Important areas must be committed to memory. Train your children to keep their nose to the grindstone through memorizing again and again vital information. Help them commit to memory all the definitions as well as important points necessary for them to respond successfully to their exam questions. "How do l do that? I am not a teacher." You may ask. Well, you don't need to be a teacher in order to assist your children to do well in class. The most important character you must have is to continue working hand in glove with your children, no, not so much hand in glove as commitment to ensuring to work your finger to the bone for their success. Ask the children to go the extra mile by reading their notes again and again focusing on definitions and main points until they are able to recall what they have read without looking in their note books. 3. Construct questions from the notes "What else should l do to help my youngsters?" You may ask. To shoot from the hip, you simply need to create questions based on your children's notes and books. But someone might say why create questions on the notes? Is reading and memorizing not enough for the children to remember the information? Such questions might arise from ignoring the fact that questions reinforce understanding and children respond to questions during an examinations. Therefore it is necessary to draw your nets closer in prepare an examination environment at home. Let the children practice answering questions in writing in such an environment. In so doing, they become confident in answering the questions in the examination atmosphere you created. Once again, put your shoulder to the wheel by focusing on creating questions in areas that you think their teachers are likely to examine. " How can l do that?" You ask again. Well, imagine you are a teacher for your children, what areas in their notes will you be interested to examine? It is likely the areas that interest you are the same as those the teachers will ask in the examination. 4. Assist the children to answer the questions you created The discussion above focused on creating questions for the children to answer. It is also necessary to discuss how the child should answer the questions. Put your best foot forward by creating an examination atmosphere for you children. How? Well, let you children sit on chairs and have a table before them as if they are in an exam room! Be all eyes on your children like an invigilator as they answer your questions. "What should l do when my children are writing wrong answer?" You may ask. Don't correct them! After they finish answering the questions, assess their work and grade it. "Why is grading important?" This helps the children know if they have done well or not. If they fail, help them in the areas they did poorly. Don't you think some of the questions that you prepared will appear on their exams? Of course! If some of the questions you created appear on their examinations, the children will not only be excited but also value you as an amazing parent. 5. Discuss questions children find difficult. This is very important. Ask and discuss questions with your children up to your arm pits. That is, explain clearly the answers to the questions children failed whilst writing your test. Mark my words, the their teacher is likely going to ask the same question! To head your children in the right direction, teach, ask questions, discuss the questions and relate what the children learn to what is in their environment. If you successfully strike the right key, your children will be able to strongly cement the right information their minds. If you continue to keep an eye on your youngsters as they read, answer questions and commit ideas to memory, they will like learning and will do better in class. What are you waiting for? Go for gold and start asking your youngsters to read then prepare questions for them! You will experience a thunderbolt when your children strike gold in the areas they learn in their classes. .