• Take  the list of exam objective and study carefully its
  scope
• Organize your study keeping these objectives in mind.

You may be knowing theoretical or practical much and is confident but
still you need to check up the objectives carefully so that you do not
miss anything in your study. This will narrow down your focus area to
individual topic or subtopic.

Study material

Once you know the topics look around  you for the study material.
Generally the official web sites will have most of  the
documentations  and some commercially available books specifically
written for the purpose of exams are also available . But always try to
refer to two – three different sources  as this gives a more
clear view of a topic and makes understanding clear. 

How to study

We have been taking the exams since the school days and people have
developed  their own style of study .some like to study in the day
time others in the night still others like a background music while
studying . Whatever may be your style stick to it  but keep in mind
that in multiple choice questions you have to be exact and should be
able to differentiate between very similar answers.

• You must have a peaceful  place of study without any
  distraction so that you can read between the lines . A distracted
  study results in surfing the text  – missing the key points.

• Understand and visualize the process as whole – this will help
  in addressing to practical problems in real environment  as
  well as some unsuspecting questions .

• Note down important point  -  note down important point 
  while reading  look for something which is not obvious and
  different from the rest .

• Try to recollect these point later -  This will give an idea
  of your preparation  and helpful in revising later on .

In the exam

In multiple choice type questions  there is one advantage 
– answers are already there and one has to simply  choose the
correct one  but the problem  is  each answer looks
like correct one .So  until your concepts are very clear it is
very likely that wrong answer is selected .But no one is 
perfect  so you will have to  think a bit if you don’t
know the answer to a question . Since the answers are already there
you can start eliminating the incorrect answers by using your
knowledge and some logical thinking . 

One common mistake is to select the first obvious looking answers
without checking the other options  so always examine all the
options , think  & choose the right answer . 

It is always better to pass the questions ,of which your are not
sure, & come back  there are few advantages for this

• You avoid the tension and frustration of a suspected answer 
  which could affect the rest of answers.
• You are able to use the time thus saved to answer the questions
  you   know
• The solution may come to your mind  till the time you come
  back again
• The later part of the  questions may contains some clues to
  the answers .

Time management  in the exam

Generally the time is sufficient to answer all the questions but
if too much time is wasted on a few questions then it becomes
difficult  . The best strategy would be to pass the difficult
question after carefully reading  and attempt to them later.

 

Making it second time

If you can’t make it in first attempt  – Prepare for the
second attempt , stay calm and focused . Don’t feel over confident
that  it will be a piece of cake next time .If you can
recollect and write down the questions asked in the exam it will
help you in providing a focused area of study .