Mentoring Success Story

Testimonials: Three Hours’ Management

After many meetings with my mentees, I come to know about one common issue/area where almost all of them were facing problems or not confident enough and i.e. examination (Especially how to manage exam hours productively).

Putting the same issue forefront, I decided to go through one dedicated mentoring session almost for an hour. The session covered the ideas for “Three hours’ management”. I scheduled this session for the students well in advance and right before the winter 2018 examination. This in turn may help them mentally for their upcoming exams.

The session covered the following points:

• First / Second / Third hour management. (separate strategies for each hour)
• Time allotment to different parts of question paper on the basis of types of question, maximum marks etc.
• ‘How to read the question paper?’ Spend Reading Time. (Understand what is asked instead of what I know)
• Selection of the sequence of a question (what to write first and next and so on)
• Selection of the questions and conceptualization of the answers.
• Appropriate use of chart/ graph/ diagram/ table etc. in the answer.
• The best use of various instruments to make answer sheet more attractive.
• How to respond in the various situations in the examination hall.

Many of my mentees applied most of the learning tools from these mentoring session in the winter 2018 exam. They appreciated those topics which made the difference in their approach to appear in the exam and managing the exam hours. During the exam and after the result they found significant improvement in marks as well as confidence about the examination. Furthermore, they have more planning for the upcoming summer 2019 examination.

*Identity of student has not been disclosed.