Now I will explain the structure of written exams. First, suppose you are an examiner. It is unlikely that you have thought of things from the examiner’s perspective before. It is very difficult to make up new original questions. You have to predict how difficult the examinees will find the problems you set, because you need to divide applicants into those that should pass or fail. So, you look to the data from old exam papers to know previous students’ accuracy rates. Of course, if you present an old question as it is, the rate will be different from one time to the next. Old question has to be changed but it needs only to be changed slightly. That is why you had better work on going over old exam papers.

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Next, consider the exam from the applicant’s point of view. As all of you know, it is not always possible to go over all the old exam papers. Usually, you do not have to get the top score or a perfect score. A written exam is a relative system and you have only to be in a better position than others taking the exam, if you work on important parts of the old exam papers. As a result, you can get a great score if you have a lot of old exam papers to study. If there are only a few old exam papers, you should look at the table of contents (map) in your course textbook and get a whole picture of each subject. If you have a good understanding of the table of contents, you can easily find out what the issue is in each question out of the whole subject.

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Let us consider another example. In real medical practice as opposed to written exams about medicine, you have to consider various kinds of subjective complaints, such as aches and pains, along with objective symptoms or data such as blood test results, analyzing all of these as a whole. But in written exams, all subjective and objective findings are expressed in the same way, in plain text, as this is the only way the examiner can express them. That is why it is important to understand and memorize essential key words and sentences for any written exam.

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In a real-world situation, there is not necessarily a correct answer to a problem, but in written exams, there is usually only one right answer, which divides applicants into pass or fail by right or wrong responses. You can get the right answer by using essential key words and sentences. They can also exclude other alternatives. Therefore, you can only reach the correct answer if you understand, memorize, and use essential key words and sentences that are necessary for this exam. Ultimately, you can get a great score if you understand and memorize essential key words and sentences that are found from old exam papers. When you understand the structure of written exams, you can easily study for it.

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