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Chapter 1 of 66 min

Know the blueprint

Most exams publish what they test and in what proportion. Studying to the blueprint puts your effort where the marks are.

Key ideas

  • Weight your study time to the exam's weighting.
  • High-yield topics deserve repeated retrieval.
  • Past papers reveal style as well as content.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Find the official blueprint or syllabus and its weightings.

  2. 2

    Rate your confidence in each area.

  3. 3

    Allocate study time by weight multiplied by weakness.

  4. 4

    Schedule a past-paper session every week.

Example

A candidate discovers one topic carries a quarter of the marks but had received a tenth of her study time. Rebalancing lifts her practice scores within three weeks.

Your drill

Build a table of exam areas, weightings and your confidence, and rewrite next week's study plan from it.

Common mistakes

  • Studying what you enjoy rather than what is tested.
  • Leaving past papers until the final week.

Check yourself

How should study time be allocated?

Show the answer

According to the exam's weighting combined with your areas of weakness.

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