Friends Of STAR

Friends Of STAR wish the best of luck to all STAR students sitting for PMR beginning today.

Be prepared; find out what is involved in each of the examinations that you are going to sit. Organise yourself the night before and get plenty of sleep.

1. Check you have the correct equipment with you before you leave the house (pens pencils, ruler, scientific calculator, etc)
2. Do take a watch or clock so that you can time your answers
3. Leave for the exam in plenty of time
4. Look through the paper first and mark difficult questions/initial thoughts
5. Select the questions that will best enable you to demonstrate your knowledge to the examiner
6. Look at the marks available and read the questions carefully, following instructions given in the paper (e.g. to show all workings, word limits etc)
7. Use the information provided on the paper (the answer's often nearly all there)
8. Pace yourself and allow enough time to answer all the required questions
9. Write as neatly as possible to help the examiner to mark your work. Marking untidy writing is difficult
10. For longer answers, take a few minutes before you begin to produce a structured plan of what you are going to include in each section
11. Allow yourself ten minutes at the end to read through your answers and correct any mistakes
12. Cross out anything you do not want the examiner to read (e.g. an earlier answer to a question)