What is it?
Exam performance refers to the time you spend in the exam creating the work to be assessed. This is your time to show how much you have learned and your thinking and writing skills.
Why do I need to learn it?
Practicing your exam performance can help:
How do I do it?
As part of your revision schedule some exam practice sessions, there is a great section on exam practice in: The Exam Skills Handbook by Stella Cottrell.
If the exam is handwritten, it may be useful to practise writing for similar lengths of time to the exam.
In the exam:
It can be tempting to focus on questions where you feel more confident, and spend more time in the exam answering those questions. However, it is easier to gain enough marks to pass an exam by passing each question. Generally you will not gain enough marks to pass from just one or two answers, even if they are to a very high standard. You should therefore spend an equal amount of time on questions worth the same number of marks. Allocate an amount of time for each question based upon how many marks they are worth and move on to the next question if you have used up the allotted time. If you have access to them, have a look at past papers or example questions for your exam well in advance. Look at what types of question are being asked and how marks are allocated. This will allow you to plan in advance how much time you will spend on each question (Cottrell, 2012).