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歡迎來到www.engvid.com。

I'm Adam.

我是亞當。

In today's video I want to talk to you about how to prepare for taking a test.

在今天的視頻中，我想和你談談如何為參加考試做準備。

I'm not talking about studying the material or studying...

我不是在說學習材料或學習...

Practicing the English, if you're taking an English test, like IELTS or TOEFL.

練習英語，如果你要參加英語考試，如雅思或托福考試。

I want you to think about the actual test day, what you need to do just before, what

我想讓你考慮一下實際的考試日，你在考試前需要做什麼，你要做什麼？

you need to do during, what you need to do or not do after.

你需要做什麼，你需要做什麼或不做什麼。

Okay?

好嗎？

So, we're going to look at six tips to prep, to get ready for test day.

是以，我們要看一下準備工作的六個提示，為考試日做好準備。

Okay?

好嗎？

Now, these are all very general tips, but I'm going to get into a little more detail

現在，這些都是非常普遍的提示，但我要更詳細地介紹一下

with each one.

與每一個人。

Number one: Good rest.

第一條。良好的休息。

What does this mean?

這意味著什麼呢？

Make sure the night before a test...

確保在考試前一天晚上...

And this is about any test you're going to take, make sure you get a good night's sleep.

而這是關於你要參加的任何考試，確保你有一個良好的睡眠。

Because I've met a lot of people...

因為我見過很多人...

Excuse me.

請原諒我。

I've met a lot of people who are going to take a test and I know that they were very,

我見過很多要參加考試的人，我知道他們非常。

very prepared.

非常有準備。

They studied all the material, their English was excellent, and then they went to the test

他們學習了所有的材料，他們的英語很好，然後他們去參加考試。

and they did terribly.

而他們做得很糟糕。

Why?

為什麼？

Because they were so tired.

因為他們太累了。

They just couldn't concentrate.

他們只是無法集中精力。

The night before, get a good night's sleep.

前一天晚上，要睡個好覺。

Don't study the night before.

不要在前一天晚上學習。

Sleep, wake up early, be fresh when you get to the test center.

睡覺，早起，到了考場後要保持清爽。

Have all of your energy ready to focus on what you're about to do.

準備好你所有的能量，專注於你要做的事情。

Okay?

好嗎？

Don't go out partying, don't go drinking, don't go see a movie, don't go hang out with friends.

不要出去聚會，不要去喝酒，不要去看電影，不要去和朋友一起玩。

Stay at home, relax, read a book, maybe watch a little bit of television.

呆在家裡，放鬆一下，讀一本書，也許看一點電視。

Go to sleep early, wake up early, make sure you have enough time to get to the test center,

早睡早起，確保有足夠的時間趕到考試中心。

make sure everything is under control, there's no anxiety, no stress, relaxed.

確保一切都在控制之中，沒有焦慮，沒有壓力，輕鬆自如。

With a clear mind is a strong mind, right?

有了清晰的頭腦就有了強大的思想，對嗎？

If your mind is clear, and sharp, and focused, you're going to do well.

如果你的頭腦清晰、敏銳、專注，你就會做得很好。

If you're tired, and panicky, and not so sure what's going on, you're not going to do well.

如果你很累，很慌張，而且不大確定發生了什麼，你就不會做得很好。

Okay.

好的。

Good nutrition.

良好的營養。

Now, this is very important.

現在，這是非常重要的。

The morning of the test, make sure you wake up early enough to have a solid breakfast.

考試當天早上，確保你早早起床，吃一頓紮實的早餐。

Now, if you're a coffee drinker, have a coffee, but have it early and don't have any more

現在，如果你是一個喝咖啡的人，那就喝杯咖啡，但要早點喝，不要再喝了。

before the test.

在測試之前。

Coffee is a stimulant.

咖啡是一種興奮劑。

Okay?

好嗎？

Coffee is a stimulant.

咖啡是一種興奮劑。

It stimulates the body, it gets the energy flowing, you get a bit of adrenaline going,

它可以刺激身體，讓能量流動起來，你會得到一點腎上腺素的作用。

you get a bit of a sugar rush.

你會得到一點糖分的刺激。

Caffeine gets your...

咖啡因讓你...

Everything moving a little bit faster.

一切都在一點點加快。

The problem with a stimulant is it gives you a nice boost of energy, but then when the

興奮劑的問題是它給你一個很好的能量提升，但當

stimulant works its way out of the body, then you come down real hard again.

刺激物從體內排出後，你就會再次陷入真正的痛苦之中。

Right?

對嗎？

And that's when you start making mistakes, that's when you stop thinking clearly, that's

而這就是你開始犯錯的時候，這就是你停止思考的時候，這就是

when you get a little bit tired, you lose a little bit of focus, and then you start

當你有點累的時候，你會失去一點注意力，然後你開始

making silly mistakes.

犯了愚蠢的錯誤。

Most of these tests, and again, we're talking about IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, GMAT, even your high

這些測試中的大多數，同樣，我們談論的是雅思、託福、SAT、GMAT，甚至是你的高中。

school exams, most of them are long.

學校的考試，大多數都很漫長。

Right?

對嗎？

I remember in university having three-hour exams as a regular thing.

我記得在大學裡，三小時的考試是常事。

Make sure that you're energetic from beginning to end; you don't have a downtime where everything

確保你從頭到尾都精力充沛；你不會有一個停工期，在這個停工期裡，所有的東西都會被淘汰。

falls apart and you don't know what you're writing about.

分崩離析，你不知道你在寫什麼。

So, what is good nutrition?

那麼，什麼是良好的營養？

Have a good protein, high-protein breakfast, make sure you have some carbohydrates, like

吃一頓好的蛋白質、高蛋白的早餐，確保你有一些碳水化合物，如

sugars, things that give you energy, but not too much.

糖類，能給你帶來能量的東西，但不要太多。

Sugar is also a stimulant, so you don't want to have, like, a cinnamon bun from Cinnabon

糖也是一種興奮劑，所以你不想吃，比如，肉桂餅的肉桂包。

that's full of sugar that's going to get you all juiced up, and then it's going to drop

充滿了糖分，會讓你精神振奮，然後就會下降

you right in the middle of a test and you lost all your focus.

你在考試的時候失去了所有的注意力。

Right?

對嗎？

Good protein.

良好的蛋白質。

Eggs.

雞蛋。

If you have your coffee, have it early.

如果你要喝咖啡，就早點喝。

Make sure that your...

確保你的...

Everything your body needs.

你的身體需要的一切。

Now, you have to understand h ow...

現在，你必須瞭解如何...

How your body works.

你的身體如何工作。

Right?

對嗎？

So, again, if you're a coffee drinker, drink your coffee; if you're not, don't drink a

是以，再次重申，如果你是一個喝咖啡的人，就喝你的咖啡；如果你不是，就不要喝。

coffee just do get the energy buzz.

咖啡只是得到了能量的嗡嗡聲。

You can have a protein shake if that works for you, you can have a protein bar, you can

你可以吃蛋白奶昔，如果這對你有用的話，你可以吃蛋白棒，你可以

take that with you, have it just before the test, but again, make sure your stomach is

帶上這個，在測試前吃，但同樣，要確保你的胃是

not louder than your thoughts.

不比你的思想更響亮。

Okay?

好嗎？

I've been in those kinds of tests as well, where my stomach is so loud that the people

我也曾參加過這種測試，我的肚子很響，以至於人們

next to me couldn't concentrate on their test either, so don't do that.

我旁邊的人也無法專注於他們的考試，所以不要這樣做。

Now, the night before.

現在，前一天晚上。

I already mentioned: Don't study the night before.

我已經提到了。不要在前一天晚上學習。

If you don't know the material, if you don't know the English, if you don't know your science,

如果你不知道材料，如果你不知道英語，如果你不知道你的科學。

if you don't know your math, the night before the test you won't know it the next day either.

如果你不知道你的數學，在考試的前一天晚上你也不會知道它。

You can study all night, it's going to come in, it's going to go right out.

你可以整晚學習，它將會進入，它將會直接出去。

The materials that are going to be on your test have been taught to you over a long span.

你考試中的材料已經在很長的時間內教給你了。

You can't squeeze them into one night.

你不可能把它們擠在一個晚上。

Now, what you will do by studying the night before is you're going to make yourself realize:

現在，通過前一天晚上的學習，你要做的是讓自己意識到。

"Oh my god, I don't actually understand this part", or "I don't know this word", or "I

"哦，我的上帝，我實際上不明白這部分"，或 "我不知道這個詞"，或 "我

don't know this structure".

不知道這個結構"。

If you're doing this the night before, all you're doing is building stress.

如果你在前一天晚上這樣做，你所做的一切都是在製造壓力。

Stress is not a good thing for a test.

壓力對測試來說不是一件好事。

Okay?

好嗎？

And again, I've met lots of people who are very smart and knew all their materials, but

再說一遍，我見過很多人，他們非常聰明，知道他們所有的材料，但

they just couldn't handle the stress of the test.

他們只是無法承受考試的壓力。

Sometimes the pressure of the timing, or the pressure of the situation, being in a classroom

有時，時間上的壓力，或情況上的壓力，在一個教室裡

or being in a room with a bunch of other people, and the clock ticking-tick, tick, tick, tick,

或者和其他一群人在一個房間裡，時鐘滴答滴答地響著，滴答滴答地響著。

tick, tick, tick-and you're like: "Oh my god, I have to finish."

滴答，滴答，滴答--而你就像。"哦，我的上帝，我必須完成。"

The stress makes you not think clearly.

壓力使你無法清晰地思考。

The night before you don't want to stress yourself out; you want to relax.

前一天晚上，你不想給自己壓力，你想放鬆。

Stay at home, relax, read a book, watch a movie at home, etc.

呆在家裡，放鬆一下，讀一本書，在家裡看一部電影，等等。

Know thyself.

瞭解你自己。

Now, if any of you have watched the movie The Matrix, The Oracle says to Neo, there's

現在，如果你們有人看過電影《黑客帝國》，甲骨文對尼奧說，這裡有

a sign above the door: "Know thyself".

門上有一個標誌。"認識你自己"。

Right?

對嗎？

Basically know what works for you, what doesn't work for you.

基本上知道什麼對你有用，什麼對你沒用。

What are your strengths?

你的長處是什麼？

What are your weaknesses?

你的弱點是什麼？

And most, above all, we have this expression: "Keep things in perspective".

而最重要的是，我們有這樣的表達。"把事情看清楚"。

Okay?

好嗎？

What does it mean to keep things in perspective?

保持事物的正確性意味著什麼？

First of all, understand that this test, as much as you think it's going to change your

首先，要明白這個測試，儘管你認為它將改變你的

whole life, it's not.

一生中，它不是。

It's one test.

這是一個測試。

Okay?

好嗎？

If you prepared for it, you will do well.

如果你做好準備，你會做得很好。

If you didn't prepare for it, you won't do well.

如果你沒有做好準備，你就不會做得很好。

And it's basically the way it is.

而且基本上是這樣的。

If you're ready for the test, you will be well.

如果你準備好了，你就會好起來。

Be ready, keep it all in perspective.

做好準備，把一切都看在眼裡。

Now, if you're talking about IELTS or TOEFL, keep in mind it's not one time.

現在，如果你在談論雅思或托福考試，請記住這不是一次。

If you didn't do well this time, you'll take it again a month later or two months later.

如果你這次做得不好，一個月後或兩個月後再考。

Yes, I know they're expensive tests, but at the end of the day it's just money, it's not

是的，我知道它們是昂貴的測試，但在一天結束時，它只是錢，它不是

your whole life.

你的整個生命。

Keep it in perspective, stay relaxed, you'll do well.

保持清醒的頭腦，保持放鬆，你會做得很好。

Now, another thing about knowing yourself: What are your strengths?

現在，關於瞭解自己的另一件事。你的長處是什麼？

Make sure that you go through the whole test, and if certain parts of the test are difficult

確保你通過整個測試，如果測試的某些部分是困難的

for you, concentrate on those types of questions, or those structures, or those equations, if

對你來說，專注於那些類型的問題，或那些結構，或那些方程式，如果

you're doing a math test.

你在做一個數學測試。

Things that are easy for you, don't waste your time working on them; they're easy for

對你來說很容易的事情，不要浪費你的時間去做，它們對你來說很容易。

you.

你。

Know your weaknesses, work on them.

瞭解自己的弱點，在這些弱點上下功夫。

Know your strengths, rely on them.

瞭解你的長處，依靠它們。

Okay?

好嗎？

The strengths will make up for some of the weaknesses, and vice versa.

長處會彌補一些短處，反之亦然。

And another thing, if you're the type of person that gets very nervous in a test situation,

還有一件事，如果你是那種在測試情況下會非常緊張的人。

figure out a way to remove that stress.

想出一個辦法來消除這種壓力。

Okay?

好嗎？

I'm the type of person when I get into a test and I start to get a little bit panicky, all

我是那種一進入考試就開始有點驚慌失措的人，所

I do, I put my pen down, I close my eyes, I breathe...

我做到了，我放下筆，閉上眼睛，呼吸......。

I take a full minute, maybe even two minutes.

我花了整整一分鐘，也許甚至兩分鐘。

Two minutes out of a three-hour test is nothing.

在三小時的測試中，兩分鐘不算什麼。

Trust yourself.

相信自己。

Close your eyes, breathe, calm down, and continue with your test.

閉上眼睛，呼吸，平靜下來，繼續進行測試。

If you fight the pressure, if you fight the stress, you're only going to double it and

如果你與壓力作鬥爭，如果你與壓力作鬥爭，你只會使它加倍，並且

triple it.

三倍吧。

And then you get into a cycle, and basically it snowballs until it gets so big that you

然後你就進入了一個循環，基本上是滾雪球，直到它變得如此之大，以至於你

just...

只是...

You lose control and you lose your focus, and you don't know what you're doing and that's

你失去了控制，你失去了你的注意力，你不知道你在做什麼，這就是

when you start getting the bad results.

當你開始得到不好的結果時。

I've seen so many people who I know, especially like I teach IELTS and TOEFL, and I see people's

我看到很多我認識的人，特別是像我教雅思和託福的人，我看到人們的

essays for example, and I say: "Okay, here's a sentence.

例如作文，我說："好的，這裡有一個句子。

What's wrong here?"

這裡有什麼問題嗎？"

And they go: -"Oh, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong."

然後他們就走了。-"哦，這是錯的，這是錯的，這是錯的。"

-"Well, if you know this, why did you do it here?"

- "好吧，如果你知道這些，你為什麼要在這裡做呢？"

-"Oh, I was just nervous.

- "哦，我只是緊張。

The time was running out and I didn't..."

時間已經不多了，我沒有......"

Don't be nervous.

不要緊張。

Manage your time.

管理你的時間。

Learn how to calm yourself down, and stay focused and do it well, the way you know...

學習如何讓自己冷靜下來，並保持專注，做好自己，用自己知道的方式...

You know you can do it.

你知道你能做到。

Okay?

好嗎？

Just as importantly, make sure that you know the test from beginning to end, you know it

同樣重要的是，要確保你從頭到尾瞭解測試，你知道它

inside-out.

由內向外。

You know all the directions that are coming, you know all the types of questions that are

你知道所有即將到來的方向，你知道所有類型的問題都是

coming, you know the level of vocabulary, the level of equations, the level of imagination

來，你知道詞彙量的水準，方程式的水準，想象力的水準。

they want from you.

他們想從你這裡得到什麼。

Know everything about the test.

瞭解關於考試的一切。

So let's look at IELTS as an example.

是以，讓我們以雅思考試為例來看看。

I've seen hundreds of times you have...

我已經看到數百次你有...

You come across a question, it asks you: "Is it true, is it false, or is it not given?"

你遇到一個問題，它問你。"它是真的，是假的，還是不給？"

And how many times have I seen people just say: "Oh, yes, no, not given."

而我有多少次看到人們只是說。"哦，是的，不，沒有給。"

And you know what?

而你知道嗎？

You're losing points because you didn't look at the instruction carefully.

你丟分是因為你沒有仔細看說明書。

If it says: "True" and you wrote "Yes", you actually didn't answer the question.

如果它說："真實"，而你寫了 "是"，你實際上沒有回答這個問題。

If it asks for "Yes" and you wrote "True", you didn't answer the question.

如果它問的是 "是"，而你寫的是 "真"，你就沒有回答這個問題。

Just have a quick second, know that there's two types of this question.

只要有一秒鐘的時間，知道這個問題有兩種類型。

They work exactly the same way, but the answer has to be "True", not "Yes"; the answer has

它們的工作方式完全相同，但答案必須是 "真"，而不是 "是"；答案必須是

to be "No", not "False".

是 "不"，而不是 "假"。

Make sure you're doing the right thing.

確保你在做正確的事情。

Okay?

好嗎？

I've also seen, like, let's say this is the answer key, and you come to this question

我還看到，比如說這是答案的關鍵，你來到這個問題上

and you don't really know, like in the reading section, you don't know the answer.

而你並不真正知道，比如在閱讀部分，你不知道答案。

So you put yourself a little mark and you say: "I'll come back to it later."

所以你給自己做個小標記，你說："我以後再來找它。"

But if you didn't put this mark and you go to the next question-okay?-and you know the

但是，如果你沒有打上這個標記，而你進入了下一個問題--好嗎？

answer, then you don't pay attention, you see a blank, you put the answer here.

答案，然後你不注意，你看到一個空白，你把答案放在這裡。

Meanwhile, this answer belongs here.

同時，這個答案屬於這裡。

So guess what?

所以你猜怎麼著？

All the rest of your answers are going to be mistakes, and you might not have time to

你剩下的所有答案都將是錯誤的，你可能沒有時間去

go fix it all.

去解決這一切。

Be very careful.

要非常小心。

These are silly mistakes that will cost you a lot of points and maybe lose you the test.

這些愚蠢的錯誤會讓你失去很多分數，也許會讓你失去考試。

Okay?

好嗎？

Know what's coming.

知道即將發生的事情。

TOEFL, in the listening section or in the first part of the writing section you're going

在托福考試中，在聽力部分或寫作部分的第一部分，你將會

to need to know how to take notes.

需要知道如何做筆記。

You can't just listen and think that you're going to write your task one summary.

你不能只聽不說，認為你要寫你的任務一總結。

You can't do all...

你不可能做所有...

Listen to all the listening section and think you're going to be able to answer all the

聽完所有的聽力部分，認為自己能夠回答所有的

questions.

問題。

You're going to have to take notes.

你必須做筆記。

So, make sure you practice note-taking skills well before the test.

是以，確保你在考試前好好練習記筆記的技巧。

Because what happens, if you do the listening section and you didn't take notes, and then

因為如果你做了聽力部分，而你沒有做筆記，然後

you're missing a lot of these questions and you think you're doing badly, then you start

你錯過了很多這樣的問題，你認為你做得很糟糕，然後你開始

to panic.