It’s easy to make mistakes in theHSC BiologyExam when you’re stressed, particularly in an exam situation where you’re trying to juggle your time, knowledge and writing all at once.
但是，您可以做一些事情来避免这些高风险错误，这可能会导致学生由于最愚蠢的原因，失去最大的印记。
And so, without further ado, here are the five most common high stakes mistakes that students make in the HSC Biology Exam and how you can effectively avoid them!
Mistake #1: Not Reading The Question
In an exam, students sometimesjump to conclusions关于一个特定的问题要求他们解释，因为他们看到了熟悉的图或者familiar words.
有时候是这样的a lotin multiple choice questions, and can befatal.
Takethis例如，2012年HSC生物学考试论文的问题：
This is the full question.
在压力下，学生可能会被磨练one partof the question that is immediately familiar.
我想它看起来有点像这个：
It becomes tempting to hone in on thehaemoglobinpart, which is a whole dot point in the syllabus on its own.
This means that if you saw that question in a stressful situation, you would be tempted to choose (A) as the answer because it directly involves oxygen.
However, the correct answer is actually (C) because:
- 其余的问题是关于endotherm in a cold environment, which is pointing you towards the amount ofenergyavailable, rather than the amount of氧available
- AND the adaptive advantage of haemoglobin is that it doesn’t actually require any energy to work, leaving more available for the rest of the organism!
It is很重要to read the question properly (especially) in Biology because the问题的基本点可能会根据问题的措辞之间的微小差异而改变, just like the example above.
当您详细阅读问题时，请睁大眼睛对钥匙动词which are in the question, to make sure that you are producing an answer that addresses the question.
Mistake #2: Not Breaking The Question Down
So, as we all know, each HSC Biology Exam question is made up of a零件数.
In an exam, when you’re feeling stressed it issuper tempting跳过“分解问题”步骤，直接回答问题。
The risk is that a question which looks like这个：
…starts to look like这个：
Needless to say, your answer to this squished up question is going to benowhere near as detailedas your question to the nicely spaced out and broken up question.
This means that you will be丢失分数even if you understand the content.
如何避免这种情况？简单的，slow it down.
You can break the question down into smaller parts in a few ways:
Highlighting or underlining key words
绘制垂直线between parts of the question andnumbering themso you can tick them off once you’ve addressed each part of the question.
Scribble key wordsrelating to the content you need for the question
Mistake #3: Spending Too Much Time On One Question
Needless to say, this can cause you to lose marks all over the shop,即使您了解内容！
这在HSC生物学考试中特别糟糕，因为有tonnesof easy marks throughout the paper, not just in the multiple choice questions, which you would be losing for no reason at all…
如何对抗这一点：
在阅读时间，您应该至少花2分钟计算多少时间您可以花在每个问题上。最简单的经验法则是1 mark per minute.
If a question is worth 6 marks, you should be spending6 minuteson it.
如果您不在分配的时间回答问题，请用铅笔标记问题，然后继续下一个问题。
You can come back to these marked questions after you’ve attempted all of the questions.
这意味着您将抢走每个简单的标记，因此您不会不必要地失去标记。
任何有挑战性的部分你回去的地址will be well-deserved ‘bonus marks’!
Mistake #4: Freaking Out
我知道这发生在大多数学生身上。
The key, however, is not to avoid the stress of the HSC Biologu exam, but toknow how to manage it.
Freaking out in the HSC Biology Exam can be particularly fatal because:
- You may skip over easy marks
- 您将无法正确阅读该问题
- Which means you can’t answer the question properly
I have 3 suggestions for overcoming exam freaking out:
1. Breathe
Take a few deep breaths before the exam, and squeeze in a few before each questions too.
这将使您能够快速休息一下，以便您的大脑可以刷新，您将能够有效地看到这些问题
2.进行精神热身
Just like for a big sporting game, mental warm ups can ensure that you’re ready to sit the HSC Biology Exam.
I recommend having some short questions on a palm card which you can use to test yourself just before your exam to bring it all back in time for the start of the exam
3.做很多练习论文
Even better: do lots of practice papersunder exam conditions.
这意味着真实的考试很熟悉，因此您知道你可以工作in exam conditions.
这将有助于您减轻考试焦虑，以便您可以直接思考。
错误5：时间用完
Running out of time is often theby-product of the above issues.
The best way to avoid running out of time is by ensuring that youdo not makethe other 4 mistakes!
Make sure that you put enoughtimein your学习before the exam to combat these issues to avoid running out of time!
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