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Here’s a quick list of things I could think of:
1) Most important, turn off your computer / cellphone / tv etc.
2) Make a rough outline of everything you need to learn
3) If you don’t have enough time to do everything, guess which things will definitely be on the test and learn them 100% It is a mistake to try and cram everything in if you don’t have time. You will end up hardly knowing anything.
4) When you write your test, immediately answer the questions you know. Do not start with the hard questions first.
5) Get a decent sleep. With 2-3 hours of sleep, you are prone to dumb mistakes on easy questions.
6) Relax and accept your fate. You left the test til late, you won’t get the best mark ever, but you can still get a good mark considering the circumstances right?
If possible, get a copy of a friend’s notes. Compare them with your notes, and highlight the things that both of you have written down – those are most likely important, and will most likely be on the test.
If your teacher has passed out a study guide, read through that and mark in your notes the sections highlighted on the study guide. If you don’t have any notes about particular topics, it’s time to open your book and take some. Read through the review questions at the end of the section or chapter – those are usually important, and may be on the test. Be sure you can answer those as well.
To tone down distractions, turn off all cell-phones, computers, TVs, Mp3 players, et cetera. If you’re a person who needs background noise to study, try turning on a television at a low volume. Put on the news/a soap opera/etc. – as long as it’s something that won’t interest you and distract you. Put on a TV show that you hate, need be.
Designate certain times in which you can take breaks – every hour, for example. At that time, get up and walk around, stretch, get a drink and a snack and relax for 15 minutes. Call a friend to chat for a few minutes, if you’d like. But after that 15 minutes is up, go back to studying for another hour. You’ll be surprised how much you can get done, and how much easier it will be to work, when you know you will have a break coming soon.
If your test includes a lot of terms or ideas that you’re having trouble with, try making notecards. On one side of the notecard, write the term, and write the definition on the opposite side. Make a stack of these notecards and go through them. Set aside the ones you get correct. Take the ones you get wrong, separate them into stacks (of perhaps five notecards each) and work on those five. Keep going through those five until you have them memorized. Stick them aside, grab another five notecards and try to memorize those. After you have those down, pick up the original five and combine the last five and them into one stack. See if you still can remember all of them. Keep doing this until all of your notecards are combined again and you have them all memorized.
After all of that, realize there is only so much you can do in that small span of time. Accept the fact that you made a mistake and waited for the last minute to study – and accept the fact that your grade may not be the best because of it. Get a lot of sleep the night before and eat a healthy breakfast – it’ll help keep you awake throughout the test and it will help you remember more information.
During the test, go through and answer all the questions you know the answer to. Skip any you’re unsure of – a later question may help you remember. After completing the ones you know, go back and see if you remembered any more. Then work on the hard ones with whatever time you have remaining and hope for the best.
If it’s a multiple choice test, process of elimination is always a safe bet. Look at the options and cross off what you know is the wrong answer. If you know two answers are definitely incorrect, and you’re unsure of the two others, you’ve narrowed your chances down to 50/50 chance. Those are much better odds.