Exam season can be frustrating since learners are under a lot of pressure. There are, however, several things you may do to boost your preparation for exams.

Begin planning ahead of time. Preparing for your examination early will provide sufficient time to go over all you have already learned. You can establish a plan to better organize your schedule. However, how can you make a good schedule?【小题1】. And then plan out your schedule to learn and understand all pending (待定的) topics efficiently.

Arrange your learning area. Make sure things around you are in order before you begin preparing and reviewing the study material for your examinations. 【小题2】. In addition, you ought to be sure that your seat is comfortable, that your space is well lit, and that nothing distracts you, such as computer games or notifications of your smartphone.

Study your old notes and test papers. 【小题3】. One of the most helpful strategies to prepare for tests is to read and review old test papers. It helps students familiarize themselves with the question structures and layout, which can help them anticipate what will be on their exam.

【小题4】. An essential study preparation idea is to plan meetings with friends to test each other’s knowledge and clarify confusing points. Additionally, learning with colleagues or fellow classmates is another excellent approach to keep you challenged and progressing toward the aim.

Have enough rest. While it may appear that studying for longer periods will boost efficiency, it will eventually drain you, leaving you with no power to learn and remember things. Thus, it’s critical to have adequate rest. 【小题5】.

You can consider these recommendations, which will serve as an excellent jumpstart for your learning journey.

Fed up with too much screen time, some students from one Philadelphia high school in the US refused to log on for school on Dec 14th, staging a protest that they hope will draw attention to the difficult situation of stressed teenagers across the city and beyond.

Instead of attending virtual school from 8 am to 3 pm as usual, dozens of students at Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (KCAPA) declined to participate in classes.

Leilani Ferrara and her classmates didn't want to shirk work. “In fact, the logoff was designed to catch up on missed or incomplete assignments, and organized around the fact that the current school schedule is unworkable,” said Ferrara, 15, a strong student whose grades are now falling.

“We are all breaking down every day,” Ferrara said. “I barely eat. I'm sleeping all the time. You just can’t be online every day from 8 am to 3 pm. It's too much.”

Philadelphia School District students have not seen the inside of their classrooms since March when schools closed because of COVID-19. Social studies teacher Ismael Jimenez has seen students grow increasingly stressed. They worry about too much work, not enough time to complete it and a lack of one-on-one time with teachers.

KCAPA attendance has been declining — last week, it was under 50 percent. KCAPA students are expected to be in classes for seven hours, with 10 minutes between classes and a lunch break. The students have taken their concerns to Principal Patricia McDermott-Fair, who has not made meaningful changes to the schedule.

District leaders did not make McDermott-Fair available for comment. In a statement, Malika Savoy-Brooks, the district's Chief of Academic Support, said she understood remote learning is challenging for some. “We encourage anyone who has concerns about this matter to work with their school leaders with the final goal of creating an environment where students, progress comes first,” Savoy-Brooks said.

Students say they're overwhelmed (压垮的) by hours of work followed by homework. Junior Kayla Reynolds, 18, wants to finish high school. But now she's getting mostly Ds and Fs. “I'm not a good learner when it comes to virtual — I'm not slow, but I just need face-to-face learning,” she said. “Some of us are thinking about dropping out of school.”

I had often dreamt of the possibility of spending a year away from my hometown of Leeds in England, living in a foreign country. When I was old enough, however, I thought that my language was going to hold me back.

However, luckily for me, University of Leeds, where I was studying at the time, made it possible for any student, even people like me speaking only one language, to study abroad. Before I knew it I was boarding a plane for Salzburg, Austria. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect of the experience ahead of me but I was prepared to accept the challenge.

The university was quite small but the classes were large. Also, Austrian students usually take five years to complete their courses, so studying there was somewhat more relaxing than at home. Austrian students go home quite often, too. Therefore, the foreign students had to socialise with each other quite a lot, which didn’t help with our language skills.

Salzburg itself is a picture-postcard Austrian city. It is also famous for being the birthplace of Mozart and the setting for The Sound of Music. As a result, it is usually very busy with tourists. I also found that it doesn’t have a lot of entertainment for young people, in comparison with Leeds.

There are, however, many advantages of living in Salzburg. For example, get on a train and you can be in Prague, Rome or Krakow within a matter of hours. By the end of my year in Salzburg, I had visited eight other countries in Europe.

After spending a year overseas, I went back to my courses in Leeds and I was much more focused on what I wanted to get out of my last year and more appreciative of the opportunity the university provided. The year in Salzburg really showed me that you get a lot more out of a place when you live there compared to when you are just traveling through. I’d recommend all students to spend a year studying abroad if they can.