{"id":156,"date":"2008-07-15T22:57:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T21:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-07-15T22:57:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T21:57:42","slug":"dont-read-the-exam-question-just-write-down-anything-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/dont-read-the-exam-question-just-write-down-anything-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t read the exam question &#8211; just write down anything you know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/books\/ExamRruivieiraPA460.jpg\" alt=\"exam\" \/ width=\"200\" align=\"left\">One of the big things my teachers were always going on about at school, when the exams came around was this &#8211; when it comes to getting decent marks make sure, make very, very sure that you read the question carefully.  If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read it, you might not answer it.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re particularly lucky and the question just says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Write down everything you know about the topic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the chances are you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll actually be best served by thinking about what the examiner\/marker wants to know and &#8211; assuming you want to pass well &#8211; tell them what they want to know, in a sensible structure.<\/p>\n<p>Think of presentations the same way.  Your audience is your examiner and the title\/subject of your presentation is the exam question.  You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d not want to fail your exam, so why do so many want to fail their presentations by not reading the question and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153just writing down anything they know\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big things my teachers were always going on about at school, when the exams came around was this &#8211; when it comes to getting decent marks make sure, make very, very sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}