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STUDY SKILLS BUILDER 15 • Get help for any topics you feel unsure of or for which
you have questions.
Tips for Preparing for an Exam
Exercises
Did you know that you can rework your previous home-
work assignments in MyMathLab and MathXL? This is 1. Are your current homework assignments up-to-date
a great way to prepare for tests. To do this, open a previ- and is your written work for them organized in a
ous homework assignment and click “similar exercise.” binder or notebook? If the answer is no, it’s time to
This will generate new exercises similar to the home- get organized. For tips on this, see Study Skills
work you have submitted. You can then rework the Builder 13—Organizing Your Work.
exercises and assignments until you feel confident that
2. How many days in advance of an exam do you usu-
you understand them.
ally start studying?
To prepare for an exam, follow these tips:
3. List some ways you think that practicing previous
• Review your written work for your previous home- homework assignments can help you prepare for
work assignments along with your class notes. your test.
• Identify any exercises or topics that you have ques-
4. List two or three resources you can use to get help
tions on or have difficulty understanding.
for any topics you are unsure of or have questions
• Rework your previous assignments in MyMathLab on.
and MathXL until you fully understand them and can
Good luck!
do them without help.

STUDY SKILLS BUILDER 16 2. List the resources available to you in the Tools for
Success folder.
How Well Do You Know the Resources Available 3. Where did you find the English/Spanish Audio
to You in MyMathLab?
Glossary?
There are many helpful resources available to you in 4. Can you view videos from the E-Book?
MyMathLab. Let’s take a moment to locate and explore
5. Did you find any resources you did not know about?
a few of them now. Go into your MyMathLab course,
If so, which ones?
and visit the Multimedia Library, Tools for Success, and
6. Which resources have you used most often or found
E-Book.
most helpful?
Let’s see what you found.
Exercises
1. List the resources available to you in the Multimedia
Library.

Additional Help Inside and Outside Your Textbook

STUDY SKILLS BUILDER 17 5. Each chapter contains an overview of the chapter
along with examples.What is this feature called?
How Well Do You Know Your Textbook?
6. Each chapter contains a review of vocabulary. What
The questions below will help determine whether you is this feature called?
are familiar with your textbook. For additional informa- 7. There are practice exercises that are contained in
tion, see Section 1.1 in this text. this text.What are they and how can they be used?
1. What does the icon mean? 8. This text contains a student section in the back enti-
tled Student Resources. List the contents of this sec-
2. What does the icon mean?
tion and how they might be helpful.
3. What does the icon mean? 9. What exercise answers are available in this text? Copyright 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.
4. Where can you find a review for each chapter? What Where are they located?
answers to this review can be found in the back of
your text?