Some of the Reasons Why Preparing for Exams Is so Hard: What Can Be Done to Make It Easier?

Michael Pressley; Linda Yokoi; Peggy Van Meter; Shawn Van Etten; Geoffrey Freebern

doi:10.1023/A:1024796622045

Some of the Reasons Why Preparing for Exams Is so Hard: What Can Be Done to Make It Easier?

Michael Pressley, Linda Yokoi, Peggy Van Meter, Shawn Van Etten, Geoffrey Freebern

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Why it is so difficult to prepare for academic exams is reviewed with respect to recent research. Textbooks, teaching, and information processing characteristics of students all contribute to undermining effective learning and review. Recommendations are made about how instructors can make it easier for students to review and appraise their test readiness, as well as about how students can make a difference in the quality of their own preparations for tests.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-38
Number of pages	38
Journal	Educational Psychology Review
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024796622045
State	Published - 1997

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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