Keeping calm – how to cope in the exam room

By Francesca Burgoyne2013-05-01T11:37:00

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Francesca Burgoyne gives you some tips to help you score as many marks as possible in your exams

Over the next few weeks thousands of you will sit silently in neatly laid-out exam rooms anxiously listening for the phrase ‘You may begin’. You turn over the paper and not wanting to waste a minute of the exam, you frantically write down everything you have learnt on alkanes, acids and alkalis, metals, the Born-Haber cycle etc. Time passes – there are just five minutes left and the big 15 mark question is still waiting for your answer…

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