How To Pass Exams Without Revising

As an adult with a respectable job, I am still persecuted by corporate higher education.

I have to study for meetings, seminars, talks.

In the past, it was spending hours and hours studying, wasting my life – social life at that – all for a fancy graduation paper with your name on it sounds idiotic to say the least.

By following these Xpert tips on passing (and acing) exams without studying, you will not have to waste the best years of your life buried under a pile of books.

Mentioned below are some of the smartest revision-reducers to have ever been formulated.

Subliminal Learning

Who needs books when you have technology to help you out? All you need to do is to record a few sessions of key facts (a little soothing background music can also help) and feed it into your iPod or MP3 Player. Then whether you laze all day long or spend it surfing porn or making out with your chick, as long as the headphones are plugged into your ear, your subconscious is doing its share of work. Whether you realise it or not, you will be able to regurgitate everything that you subconsciously memorised while playing Halo 3.

Use Study Aids

Why reinvent the wheel when you have dozens of experts to help you out for a few hundred rupees? Your main course books, if you stick to them will confuse, confound and frustrate the life out of you. A lot of what you need to know for your exam is condensed within a few pages of text contained within a study guide. The slimmest version is often all you need to get through your exams with eminently respectable grades.

Time Management

Why study for several hours a day, when by focussing hard (and I really mean focussing) for couple of hours you can absorb massive amounts of information. This way you will be left with more than enough time for all your fun-filled pursuits and won’t develop the kind of mental scarring I did for studying way too hard for my board exams.

Tune in to your natural way of learning

Yes we all have our very personal ways of tuning into the process of learning. For example my elder brother studied best when the rhythmic abuses of Eminem played in the background. If you are finding it difficult to concentrate, it might be because you completely missed the way your brain prefers to learn. As a kid I learnt my lessons by playing at school, with my girlfriend. She was the teacher and I was her willing student, and whatever she taught my brain absorbed so readily that even now I can sit for 4th standard exam and ace it with flying colors.

There you have it – A collection of smart ways you can use to limit the amount of study time. Don’t get too carried away though. Study hard but study smart and don’t blame this article if you flunk.