How to score well in board exams?

 Exams: a word that terrifies most of us. This word has its own significance in the life of a student especially an Indian student. A student studies for the whole year to pass the exams and then get promoted to the next class/session. In typical Indian families, marks are very much important. Dreams of many middle-class children are completely associated with the exam results. 

I belong to the same typical middle-class Indian family. I was also offered my favorite items like a bicycle, bike, my favorite sneakers, etc at the price of marks. I had scored 96 percent in my 12th standard boards and around 94 percent in my 10th standard boards. So I'm gonna share some of the tips that I used to achieve this. 

The very first thing you keep in mind is scoring more than 90% is not a difficult job. It's quite an easy job but requires a little effort. This whole thing acts as a push towards our goal.

Then you have to divide your whole syllabus into small portions and make a timetable giving equal time to all subjects. Try to be strict with the time table.

Before 3 months of the board exams, your whole syllabus should be completed once. Once, the syllabus is completed then the only thing that can help you to score more is the times of revisions. Revisions are something that basically acts as fuel to boost you up. For the whole year, what you have studied doesn't matter if you hadn't revised it for at least 7 to 8 times. The more you will revise, the more you will move towards your target marks.

Most of the people usually focus on covering more and more syllabus and more extra topics and don't go for revisions which may or may not bring results but more and more revisions will definitely bring results. The most important thing you need to understand is the retention by your brain. The more your brain retains, the more your chances of scoring target marks are. So to retain everything you have learned for the whole year, you need to revise more and more. The more the number of revisions, the more the probability of getting above 90%. 

The last and the main thing you need to put in your mind is that in the last months don't go for reading more and more topics that aren't in your syllabus. Sometimes this thing leads to a number of confusion and the whole syllabus ruins away. Keep yourself strict to the topics and focus on the topics given in the syllabus only, in order to crack the goal.

Along with all these things you also have to read the past year's question papers. Our education system is designed in such a way that there are huge chances of the repetition of the questions. So revising the old previous year question papers will give you large benefits. Solving previous year question papers also built internal confidence inside you that is very important. This confidence during exam time is very important.

Now as we're prepared for the exams. We also need to understand one more thing i.e the way of writing and presenting our answers in the answer sheet. This thing may or may not work in all cases because not all the examiners focus on the presentation but I'd experienced that presentation also matters up to some extent to attain more marks. So try to present your answers in a good way making a good presentation. 

Hope this would somehow help you to score good marks. Wishing you good luck!