Useful Tips to Prepare for Online Exam

Useful Tips to Prepare for Online Exam

Competitive Exams like IIT, JEE, NEET, UPSC, CA are adopting the online mode all over India. Though completely different from the traditional way of pen and paper test, online test is demanding and advantages for Institute owners as well as Students. With the added benefit of considerably reducing the cost of print and paper and are time efficient. This exam is also highly confidential and customized.

However, for those first-time users, it is sensible to gain some knowledge and learn about the techniques and methods before appearing for the online test.

Here are some of the tips for students which whelp them to manage their time and avoid common mistakes.

•         Keep you updated and well-informed about Computers

Spend a considerable amount of time on computers before going for an online test, so that you will be comfortable with handling computers. This will help you to manage and save your time at the time of the test. Also, verify your computer has all the correct hardware and software required for the test.

•          Read and understand the test guidelines

Before starting up and activity it is always advisable to understand and go through the guidelines. Some of the questions to keep in mind are What time and date test are going to be conducted? How much time you have to complete the test?

•          Wait for a full download of the page before answering the question

Be patience while appearing for online exams. Wait until the page gets completely downloaded or there are chances that few questions might get missing. If you appear for incomplete paper your performance and score might get affected.

•          Practice well before appearing for the test 

Go for some of the series of online test before you take schedule test. This will be extremely beneficial for you to revise yourself for the test so that you will be confident during exams and enables you to finish your test before time and can re-exam the paper.

•         Click save button after every attempt

Make sure you are saving all your answers after making the options. If your answers are not automatically saved, your question might remain un-attempted and you might lose your scores. Hence very important to save your updated answer.

•          Set a deadline for each question

Keep an eye on time while appearing for the online test. Set a deadline on time to be spent on each question. Do not spend much time on answers you don’t know. Some exams allow you to go back and attend unattended questions. This will reduce the anxiety of running short of time. Planning in advance helps in a great way, time- management is integral for success.

•          Technical problem

One of the disadvantages of online exams is that technology is something bound to malfunction. In an event of technical error do not panic keep your claim and contact the instructor. Keep the helpline number handy in case of such situations.

•          Keep Time to revise the paper.

Candidates are found to have inaccurately marked the wrong answer in spite of knowing the correct one. One can identify such errors while re-checking the paper once finished. Allotting a 10 minutes time exclusively for revising the answers will ensure avoiding these mistakes and there shall be no regrets later on.