Tips for Writing the Perfect Exam Answer

In the modern education system, which is based on descriptive patterns, students face problems and issues in presenting their thoughts on paper. This problem has been negatively affected by pandemics where students have even left the regular habit of writing answers. Hence in this scenario, students need effective methods to revive and improve their answer-writing skills and present a good piece of answers to the invigilator. Thus, the following tips and tricks can help the students to write the perfect answer desired by the checker during checking:

1. Abide by Word-Limit: While writing any answer one thing students need to focus on and take care of is the word limit of the answer. The answer can exceed the limit by 10 to 15 words but if we exceed by that the answer would trouble the examiner so it is advisable to follow the word limit.

2. Don't Mess the Ideas:  It is observed that students most of the time don't know the way to arrange their thoughts and ideas in a presentable pattern which would attract the reader to the answer and help the reader to clearly understand the opinions which the writer wants to convey to the checkers through the answer.

3. The BEST Method of "CODER": I prefer to use the method of "CODER" which would make the answer perfect if followed appropriately. The "CODER" method stands for: 'C for Collect Ideas'; 'O for Organise the Ideas'; 'D for Prepare a Draft'; 'E for Edit the Draft' & 'R for Review the Answer'.

The first step in this is to collect all the ideas that come into your mind related to the answer. Then the next step is to organize and arrange these ideas in order and sequence. Then comes the part of preparing a sample draft of these organized ideas and making a skeletal answer. This is the answer template and is edited in the next step. This is the most important part because the editing of this framework of the answer becomes our final answer. At last, we need to review and re-evaluate the answer which again plays an important role as it highlights the mistake and provides the chance to correct errors and improve the answer.

Therefore, we must adopt these tricks to answer the question carefully and prepare an answer framework within the mind only hence, these tips help the students to write a better answer in a presentable without errors and cover all the points which must be included in a perfect answer and help students to fetch full marks.

By: Parth Aggarwal
S. D. Public School, Pitampura, Delhi