Read the question.  Be careful.  Check your work.

Nice and loud.  Not too fast.  Look at your audience.

The secret to spontaneity is careful preparation.

Define variables.  Write equations.  Solve the equations.
Make sure your answers have proper units and significant figures.

Answer the ones you can before you work on the ones you can’t.

Genius is simply the ability to keep your butt in the chair until the task is done.

Tell yourself you will enjoy the assigned reading.  Be convincing.  You’ll have more fun, and anyway you have to read it regardless.

If you can’t answer a multiple choice question, try to eliminate one or more choices.  Then pick one of the rest at random.

If you can’t answer a true/false question, flip a coin.  If the answer the coin chooses suddenly looks wrong to you, choose the other one.

Tell them what you’re going to tell them.

Then tell them.
Then tell them what you told them.

When writing a paper, write the conclusions first, the body next, and the introduction last.

Don’t try to study amidst distractions.  Your study environment should be as similar to your test environment as possible.

Memorize simple equivalents:

1/2 = 0.5

1/3 = 0.333333

1/4 = 0.25

1/5 = 0.2

1/6 = 0.166666

1/7 = 0.142857

1/8 = 0.125

1/9 = 0.111111

1/10 = 0.1

1/20 = 0.05

1/25 = 0.04

1/50 = 0.02

1/100 = 0.01

Never pass up a chance to give what you write a clever title.

Always try to guess the answer to a calculation before you use a calculator.  If the calculator’s answer is a lot different from what you guessed, check to make sure you pushed the right buttons.

Take notes as you listen to lectures.  Even if you never look at the notes again, doing this will help you remember and learn more.

You can.  Even when they say you can’t.

Give sincere compliments to others when you can.  It makes you look good.

If you have no time, at least make it rhyme.  Poetry power.

Ask questions.  A good question can be more impressive than a correct answer.

Never try to do math without plenty of scratch paper and a sharp pencil.

Don’t just study the book.  Study your teacher.

Go to class, and pay careful attention while you are there.

Go to bed early on the night before the exam, and try to get plenty of sleep.