My little way of preparing for exam

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Before I got into secondary school, there was nothing like preparation in my dictionary. I hate reading because it makes me bored, I prefer to be flogged than told to go and read my book. Whenever I stare at the book for too long, I begin to see letters and numbers moving from one side of the book to another.

In the junior class, there was nothing like reading ahead of the examination and even when the exam timetable is out, I still find it hard to read. I envy students who read even during the class-free period, I usually see them as magicians.

Reading wasn't important until I nearly repeated JSS 3, it was then I realized how important it was to read. No one taught me how to and my mom's warning was enough to scare the hell out of me.

I thought I had learned my lessons but my best wasn't enough when I got to SS1. I failed during my first term and when I got home my mom made me understand that once I don't pass, I should forget about school.

That day, I was really scared because that was the first time my mom ever talked from her heart to me unlike before when she would beat me and forget about it. It was very unusual for her to speak angrily without beating me.

I don't want to fail and I don't want to stop school meanwhile I don't like reading, what will I do? I asked myself while tears is rolling down my cheek.

The next morning at school I changed my seat from the back to the front because I noticed that people at the back doesn't care about what the teacher is saying at the front.

So from there, I started grabbing what the teacher taught us in class. My attitude towards study began to change because people in the front don't joke with reading.
This is how I prepare for exams when I was in secondary school.

Three weeks before the exam I would have started reading because I am a slow learner so if I don't focus on the reading I won't understand it on time.
Whenever I read, I do it to understand and I write out things to help me ease studying again as the exam approaches.

But when I became an adult the way I prepare for exams changed a lot because what is been taught in secondary school is very simple to what we learn in the university.

So I don't wait until the exam before I prepare for it because I was working and schooling so there was no time to keep separate for study and all I do was read what we've been taught and understand it before another class.

Reading my note frequently made me understand a lot of things easily and it prepared me for exams always because in the polytechnic there is no fixed time for tests, lecturers can come in and give us test at any time.

This made me study every time I am less busy at work. At my working place, people thought I will be the best student in my class because of the way I read every time during my break time at work.