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Learning how to perform in examinations is an essential skill. Exams are best thought of as an opportunity to demonstrate what you have learnt about your subject.
Learning how to perform in examinations is an essential skill. Exams are best thought of as an opportunity to demonstrate what you have learnt about your subject.
To be successful in examinations you need just two things:
knowledge (see revision strategies)
good exam technique
In this section, you will find an abundance of information to help you, including:
knowledge (see revision strategies)
good exam technique
In this section, you will find an abundance of information to help you, including:
revision strategies
strategies to use in different kinds of exam
tips on essay writing in exam conditions
how to cope with exam pressure
how to use past papers
strategies to use in different kinds of exam
tips on essay writing in exam conditions
how to cope with exam pressure
how to use past papers
= Unseen Examination in controlled conditions (e.g. 3 questions in 3 hours) = ၾကိဳတင္ေပးမသိေသာ ေမးခြန္းမ်ား။
= Seen exam paper in controlled conditions (as above, but you know the question(s) in advance) တင္ၾကိဳသိျပီးသား ေမးခြန္းမ်ား။
= Open Book or Take-Away exam စာအုပ္ဖြင့္ေျဖဆိုႏိုင္ျခင္း။ စာေမးပြဲခန္းမ အျပင္ဖက္တြင္ ေျဖဆိုႏိုင္ျခင္း။
= Multiple Choice Test in controlled conditions (paper-based) ဓမၼဓိဌာန္ေမးခြန္းမ်ား။
= In-class test ေက်ာင္းခန္းအတြင္း စစ္ေဆးျခင္း။
= Essay or Report (e.g. on an individual or group project) အက္ေဆး (သို႕) အစီရင္ခံစာ တင္ျပလြာ
= Portfolio
= Dissertation
= Presentation (may be peer-assessed and/or tutor-assessed)
= Performance (e.g. musical or dramatic) စြမ္းေဆာင္ရည္။
= Oral examination (e.g. foreign language speaking skills) ႏွဳတ္ေမး။
= Attendance သင္တန္းတက္ေရာက္ျခင္း။
= Participation in lectures and/or seminars/online discussion boards, or group work (may be peer-assessed and/or tutor-assessed) ပါ၀င္ေဆြးေႏြးျခင္း။
= Creation of a web page ဖန္တီးျခင္း
Illustrate = ပံုျဖင့္တကြ ရွင္းလင္းေဖၚျပ။
A question which asks you to illustrate usually requires you to explain or clarify your answer to the problem by presenting a figure, picture, diagram, or concrete example.
Interpret = အျမင္ကို သံုးသပ္ျပပါ။
An interpretation question is similar to one requiring explanation. You are expected to translate, exemplify, solve, or comment upon the subject and usually to give your judgment or reaction to the problem.
Justify = သက္ေသ၊ သာဓကႏွင့္တကြေျဖပါ။
When you are instructed to justify your answer you must prove or show grounds for decisions. In such an answer, evidence should be presented in convincing form.
List = စာရင္းျပဳစုပါ။
Listing is similar to enumeration. You are expected in such questions to present an itemised series or tabulation. Such answers should always be given in concise form.
Outline = အဓိကအခ်က္မ်ားကို တင္ျပပါ။
An outline answer is organized description. You should give main points and essential supplementary materials, omitting minor details, and present the information in a systematic arrangement or classification.
Review = ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ျပပါ။
A review specifies a critical examination. You should analyse and comment briefly in organised sequence upon the major points of the problem.
State = အေသးစိတ္ေျဖဆိုပါ။
In questions which direct you to specify, give, state, or present, you are called upon to express the high points in brief, clear narrative form. Details, and usually illustrations or examples, may be omitted.
Summarise = အက်ဥ္းခ်ဳံျပပါ။
When you are asked to summarise or present a summarisation, you should give in condensed form the main points or facts. All details, illustrations and elaboration are to be omitted.
A question which asks you to illustrate usually requires you to explain or clarify your answer to the problem by presenting a figure, picture, diagram, or concrete example.
Interpret = အျမင္ကို သံုးသပ္ျပပါ။
An interpretation question is similar to one requiring explanation. You are expected to translate, exemplify, solve, or comment upon the subject and usually to give your judgment or reaction to the problem.
Justify = သက္ေသ၊ သာဓကႏွင့္တကြေျဖပါ။
When you are instructed to justify your answer you must prove or show grounds for decisions. In such an answer, evidence should be presented in convincing form.
List = စာရင္းျပဳစုပါ။
Listing is similar to enumeration. You are expected in such questions to present an itemised series or tabulation. Such answers should always be given in concise form.
Outline = အဓိကအခ်က္မ်ားကို တင္ျပပါ။
An outline answer is organized description. You should give main points and essential supplementary materials, omitting minor details, and present the information in a systematic arrangement or classification.
Review = ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ျပပါ။
A review specifies a critical examination. You should analyse and comment briefly in organised sequence upon the major points of the problem.
State = အေသးစိတ္ေျဖဆိုပါ။
In questions which direct you to specify, give, state, or present, you are called upon to express the high points in brief, clear narrative form. Details, and usually illustrations or examples, may be omitted.
Summarise = အက်ဥ္းခ်ဳံျပပါ။
When you are asked to summarise or present a summarisation, you should give in condensed form the main points or facts. All details, illustrations and elaboration are to be omitted.
Describe = ေရးသားေဖၚျပပါ။
In a descriptive answer you should recount, characterize, sketch or relate in narrative form.
Diagram = ပံုဆြဲပါ။
For a question which specifies a diagram you should present a drawing, chart, plan, or graphic representation in your answer. Generally you are expected to label the diagram and in some cases add a brief explanation or description.
Discuss = ျပည့္ျပည့္စံုစံု အေသးစိတ္ ေဆြးေႏြးပါ။
The term discuss, which appears often in essay questions, directs you to examine, analyse carefully, and present considerations pro and con regarding the problems or items involved. This type of question calls for a complete and entailed answer.
Evaluate = သံုးသပ္ပါ။ အားသာခ်က္၊ အားနည္းခ်က္မ်ားကို
In an evaluation question you are expected to present a careful appraisal of the problem stressing both advantages and limitations. Evaluation implies authoritative and, to a lesser degree, personal appraisal of both contributions and limitations.
Explain = ရွင္းလင္းတင္ျပပါ
In explanatory answers it is imperative that you clarify and interpret the material you present. In such an answer it is best to state the "how or why," reconcile any differences in opinion or experimental results, and, where possible, state causes. The aim is to make plain the conditions which give rise to whatever you are examining.
In a descriptive answer you should recount, characterize, sketch or relate in narrative form.
Diagram = ပံုဆြဲပါ။
For a question which specifies a diagram you should present a drawing, chart, plan, or graphic representation in your answer. Generally you are expected to label the diagram and in some cases add a brief explanation or description.
Discuss = ျပည့္ျပည့္စံုစံု အေသးစိတ္ ေဆြးေႏြးပါ။
The term discuss, which appears often in essay questions, directs you to examine, analyse carefully, and present considerations pro and con regarding the problems or items involved. This type of question calls for a complete and entailed answer.
Evaluate = သံုးသပ္ပါ။ အားသာခ်က္၊ အားနည္းခ်က္မ်ားကို
In an evaluation question you are expected to present a careful appraisal of the problem stressing both advantages and limitations. Evaluation implies authoritative and, to a lesser degree, personal appraisal of both contributions and limitations.
Explain = ရွင္းလင္းတင္ျပပါ
In explanatory answers it is imperative that you clarify and interpret the material you present. In such an answer it is best to state the "how or why," reconcile any differences in opinion or experimental results, and, where possible, state causes. The aim is to make plain the conditions which give rise to whatever you are examining.
Compare = ႏိုင္းယွဥ္ပါ။ (အရည္အေသြး၊ စရိုက္လဏၡာ)
Examine qualities, or characteristics, to discover resemblances. "Compare" is usually stated as "compare with": you are to emphasise similarities, although differences may be mentioned.
Contrast = မတူညီျခင္းကို အေလးထားေျဖပါ။ ကြဲျပားျခင္း။
Stress dissimilarities, differences, or unlikeness of things, qualities, events, or problems.
Criticise = မိမိအျမင္ သံုးသပ္ခ်က္ (မွန္ကန္ျခင္း၊ ေကာင္းမြန္ျခင္း)
Express your judgment or correctness or merit. Discuss the limitations and good points or contributions of the plan or work in question.
Define = အဓိပၺါယ္ဖြင့္ဆိုပါ။ တိတိက်က် ရွင္းရွင္းလင္းလင္း လိုတိုရွင္းေျဖပါ။
Definitions call for concise, clear, authoritative meanings. Details are not required but limitations of the definition should be briefly cited. You must keep in mind the class to which a thing belongs and whatever differentiates the particular object from all others in the class.
Examine qualities, or characteristics, to discover resemblances. "Compare" is usually stated as "compare with": you are to emphasise similarities, although differences may be mentioned.
Contrast = မတူညီျခင္းကို အေလးထားေျဖပါ။ ကြဲျပားျခင္း။
Stress dissimilarities, differences, or unlikeness of things, qualities, events, or problems.
Criticise = မိမိအျမင္ သံုးသပ္ခ်က္ (မွန္ကန္ျခင္း၊ ေကာင္းမြန္ျခင္း)
Express your judgment or correctness or merit. Discuss the limitations and good points or contributions of the plan or work in question.
Define = အဓိပၺါယ္ဖြင့္ဆိုပါ။ တိတိက်က် ရွင္းရွင္းလင္းလင္း လိုတိုရွင္းေျဖပါ။
Definitions call for concise, clear, authoritative meanings. Details are not required but limitations of the definition should be briefly cited. You must keep in mind the class to which a thing belongs and whatever differentiates the particular object from all others in the class.
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