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hroughout your educational life—and, more than likely, the
rest of your life—testing will be an inevitable if sometimes
frightening and distressing reality. The sooner you learn
the techniques of preparing for, taking, and mastering tests, the bet-
ter off you’ll be.

What Do They Want to Know?

Many tests are as much a measure of the wayyou study— your
ability to organize a mountain of material—as they are a measure of
your knowledge of the material itself. This is especially true of any
test that purports to measure knowledge spread across the years and
your mastery of a broad spectrum of material—the SAT; GRE; bar
or medical exam; exams for nurses, CPAs, financial planners, etc.; and
others. Which means the better you study, the better your score will
probably be on such tests.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8: How to Study for Tests.

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