In life, everyone has had exams and they had their own way to study for them. Today I will be discussing how I studied for my exams. I graduated from Bachelor's degree in 2020 so I will be sharing what I did to study during my university time. I don't recommend what I did for studying though as it's not ideal; I'm just sharing my real life experience.

As mentioned before, I studied Business Management & Innovation Bachelor's degree from 2017-2020 from Victoria University at Sunway University campus. This means that I was studying an Australian degree on a Malaysia campus. I chose to study all my years at Malaysia even though I had the option to go to Australia to continue my last year. I chose to stay in Malaysia because it's expensive in Australia and in addition to that, I already have experience living overseas in America so I felt like I didn't need to go to Australia. I had about 5-6 subjects per semester so this means I had at least 5-12 exams per semester if the subjects had mid-term exams.

My dad told me that all I had to do was pass because in the end a degree is just a paper that everyone gets to show that we are "educated". I kind of agree with him there so I just made sure I passed so I wouldn't have to pay extra fees for retaking any of the subjects. I kind of agree because this barely pass wouldn't work out for some specialized professions like lawyer, doctor, dentist etc. With this in mind, my strategy was quite simple since I didn't have to aim for super high results which I think made it less stressful for me. A key to doing well in exams I feel is not stressing yourself out too much.

Throughout the years of studying, my strategy for exams was quite simple. I would make sure I attend all the classes that gave exam tips. Usually the last class before the exam, there would be a class to give exam tips for each subject and they would review some topics that could come out in the exam. I'm not sure if other universities did this but I think our university was quite spoiled to the students. In this class, you could ask the lecturer any questions. This was a must go to for me as it helped me a lot to know what exactly I need to study. After attending that class, I would go back home and write up a study guide on google docs with all the topics and bullet point the important things to know from each topic. I have a picture below of what this guide would look like. I would use this to study for the exams. I do this all the night before or a few days before depending on how much information there was to study. I did make sure I got enough sleep as well before the actual exam. I slept at least 4-5 hours and I would set an alarm to wake up so I didn't oversleep.

In conclusion, what I did for exams was simply to not stress out too much, attend the exam tips class, make a guide on google docs of important points for the topics and getting enough sleep. Please don't follow I did. There's much better ways to study then how I did it.

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