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Manage your nerves

as i said most people do get very nervous before an exam and it's good nerves are good but so if you if you don't get nervous make sure you're not too relaxed you need to focus...

Course: Ready for Cambridge exam daySection: Cambridge exam preparation and exam daySubtitles: en

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you

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as i said most people do get very

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nervous before an exam and it's good

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nerves are good but so if you if you

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don't get nervous

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make sure you're not too relaxed you

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need to focus so

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i'm not saying you should be nervous but

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make sure you find a way to help

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yourself

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focus on the exam and focus

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is a very important word because it's a

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long exam

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and you need to be focused 100 all the

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time you cannot

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stop and get distracted for even a

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second

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you need to be concentrated all the time

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in the

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reading and use of english your time is

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very limited so you won't have time to

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to think about other things in the

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writing you may think you have a bit

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more time because maybe it doesn't take

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you an hour and a half to do the two

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parts

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but if you do have spare time at the end

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you need to take advantage of that time

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to go back over what you have written

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to see if you can make any changes to

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use better vocabulary or better grammar

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so you can't relax at any moment and of

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course in the speaking it's very intense

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and in the listening

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you have if you lose concentration for a

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second

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you could lose the answer to the

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question you're on so

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yeah that's the biggest tip i can give

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you for the exam itself in the exam

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stay focused all the time 100

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and that's it you've

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