Sunday, June 7, 2009

Mind setting for the Agriculture board exam

Are you fresh graduate? Then, you must be facing the dreaded stage of the need to take the board exam. It is one of the dilemmas of the fresh graduates aside from landing a job.

If not, but graduated not later than 1992 with a degree in Agriculture? Then you are required to take the Licensure Examination for Agriculturists.

Before dealing with what to review for the examination, it is essential that we have the right mind set- up. Why take the board exam? Apparently, so you can have a title and the right to practice Agriculture and can possibly be employed in the government. If you are in the government but have no license yet or planning to settle working in the government, then it is a must that you pass the exam.

Are you ready for the exam? It is a waste of money and effort if you will just take the exam without preparation. It is better that when you take the exam you have that chance or belief that you have a bigger chance of passing than none at all. Basically, believing you have a chance of passing involves preparation.

Are you prepared? What are the steps you did to prepare yourself? Did you review? Are you confident that you can recall concepts, ideas, facts, technical terminologies, calculations on the different special fields of agriculture? But beware, being confident is one thing and being ready is another thing. There are lots of examinees who are confident but did not pass while those who prepared did.

Preparing yourself for the exam involves sacrifices and self discipline. Sacrifices mean abstinence to gimmicks when doing your review until you had your exam done and doing extra mile for those who are working full time. Discipline yourself to set time when to review and when to have a good time. Pressing yourself to review is the first step. Do not wait for your urge to review. Make the urge to review. But do not burn yourself. Set time to relax. Making up to lost time to review can be done especially to those who are working, as I did. It did motivate you to stretch a bit your saturation point of holding information and memory recall. When you have the momentum to review, enjoy that time. Do not entertain disturbance, go on with the review as if it is your last. Only when you are in your momentum to review that you have a higher retention.

If we are set that we will take the exam this year then let us do everything to prepare ourselves. Let us put in our mind that there are no second chances. It is better in this way so we can have focus and definite purpose – to pass.

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