Reminding high-school students of the things they must not do before and during their final exams.

1. How to Do
VERY BADLY
on Your Final Exams
BY: NAOMI EPSTEIN

2. Part One
Before the Exam

3. Go to sleep really really late the night before
the exam…
I’m so tired …
I can’t concentrate…
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4. The morning of the exam:
a. Leave the house at the
very last minute!
• b. Don’t take any water or
food!
You CAN’T enter
the room
now!
Candies
are NOT
food!

5. Leave your dictionary and pencilbox at home!
My friends and I will all
share everything during
the exam. Nobody cares,
right?

6. Use a pencil!
So what if my
test won’t be
checked?

7. Write your answers where it says “don’t write
here”.
• It doesn’t matter if the tester
can’t see that part of the
answer, right?

8. Don’t worry about how clear your answer
looks! Does it matter?!

9. Forget which parts of the test you don’t have
to do…
• … and work very quickly so you can do everything!
Slow
down…

10. Don’t wear a watch…
• You can ask your friends
what the time is.
Or…
• You can check the time on
your cell-phone,
You must be
kidding…

11. Part Three
After the Exam

12. If you did the things we discussed, then you
will know…
…that you tried your best to do very badly
on your important exam.
AND
…that you might be accused of cheating.
… that your exam might not be checked at all.

13. Think about all of this.

14. Be smart
and do the
right thing!