A simple exercise for you all. Please work it out and share with us up till which question you have been able to answer. Now don't cheat. Time yourself. Only 3 minutes not more.
A 3 MINUTE EXERCISE
1. Read everything before doing anything.
2. Write your name on the upper right hand corner of this paper.
3. Underline your surname.
4. Do this simple sum: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = ________________
5. If you have followed the instructions so far please RAISE BOTH YOUR HANDS.
6. LOUDLY, call out your name.
7. Slap your neighbour on the back.
8. Obtain the result of 5 X 6 X 7 = ______________
9. Minus 135 from the result obtained from sentence 8.
10. Say loudly A, B, C, C, D, E, F, G.
11. Put a circle around the answer obtained in sentence 8.
12. If you have followed the instructions do far go to the front of the class and say “I HAVE”.
13. On the reverse side of this paper, write the alphabets in capital letters on the top of the paper.
14. Circle the 2nd, 5th, 19th and 20th alphabets.
15. Write your name on the upper right hand corner of this page of this page also.
16. Put an “X” in the lower right hand corner of this page.
17. Draw a circle around the “X” you just made.
18. Put a “Y” in the lower left hand corner of this page.
19. When you have finished reading everything, do only questions 2 and 3.
20. Draw a square around the “Y” you just made.
21. Put your signature below this line.
It seems the exercise is very boring so that nobody wants to attempt it. In fact it's a very interesting exercise, especially for students. I'll explain its importance when i get results insha allah.
yeh i remeber doing sumfing like dis in year 6 at school where at the top it sed Read evryfing b4 answering any questions. n at da bottom it sed nw u have read it sit dwn quietly.bt evri1 didnt read it soo der were all struggling trying 2 answa da qusetions. was sooooo funni. its reali cool tho.jus shows you should read wt it tells u to so lol
Exactly. That's a problem lots of students (and even grown-ups) often have. They don't take the time to read instructions and questions but rather just start jotting down. I had a friend who, in her final univ year, made a mistake like this. Her paper consisted of 2 sections. The paper required that you answer 2 qns from section A and 2 qns from section B. But she didn't take the time to read the instructions, so spent all her time answering all questions in section A which left no time for section B at all.
Even in gcse/gce papers, you have an instruction which says "do not use correction fluid", but again students don't take the time to read instructions and use correction fluid and very often they forget to fill in the space which they left to dry making them lose marks unnecessarily.
Not only instructions, it's also important to always have a go through all the questions on a paper before attempting any of them.
That was the point of this exercise. To show the importance of reading. And the first instruction said "Read everything before doing anything"... :clever:
it's to teach you that many people do not read everything first when following directions - even if the first one tells them to read everything first.
if they had, they would have known only to answer 2 & 3.
i am guilty of this too - it's laziness.
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I usually read all the questions first then get confused.
25:36 And the true servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk the earth with humility and when the ignorant address them, they respond with words of peace.
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Exactly. That's a problem lots of students (and even grown-ups) often have. They don't take the time to read instructions and questions but rather just start jotting down. I had a friend who, in her final univ year, made a mistake like this. Her paper consisted of 2 sections. The paper required that you answer 2 qns from section A and 2 qns from section B. But she didn't take the time to read the instructions, so spent all her time answering all questions in section A which left no time for section B at all.
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