Exam Hacks

During your studies, you will have to prepare oral presentations, either as part of a course or in an oral exam.

The more you train your oral presentation skills, the more calm and experienced you will become.

Just as being a good presenter can be useful during your studies, it can also be necessary in your student job or future career.

For information about the formalities about an online exam, please see here for course exams and here for thesis/projects exams

Becoming a good presenter requires practice and preparation. The more you practice, the better you get.

Performing well in exams is not just about knowing all your stuff. It is very much about how you present your knowledge.

 Consider the following 3 steps when you are preparing for your oral presentation:

Everyone can get nervous when they are going to do a presentation. No matter how many times you have done it, you can get nervous due to different biological, social and psychological factors. Often you get nervous because you want to perform well at the presentation.

One of the most important things when dealing with nervousness is accepting it! It is not going to disappear, and the more you focus on it, the more it will become apparent.

Consider if you are all going to talk, or if only one of you will do the presentation.

If you all participate in the presentation, make sure that all group members are engaged in the presentation - also when it is not their turn to talk.

Look at the person speaking, to help your audience focus and not draw attention away from the presentation.

When you do a presentation, it can be helpful to have tools to support you.

However, it is important that these tools do support, rather than draw attention from, your presentation.

For all oral exams you can choose to attend the exam online.

You need to agree on this with your examiners, so talk with your course manager or project supervisor about this.