Sanjeev Satgainya

Kathmandu:

As the examinations near, students start burning the midnight oil and putting more stress not only on their brain but also tasking their body. Subject-wise too the extent of stress becomes less or more as students tend to find some subjects more difficult to tackle than others. Science is another subject that most of the students might get scared of.

The more one works on science, the easier it becomes. To solve science questions, it is very important that the students must develop imaginative power, calculation methodologies, in-depth understanding, etc. Just cramming up theories and learning the steps of the numerical by rote do not work much, instead put students in a soup.

Manju Malla, science teacher, Little Angels’ School, advises, “Build up your confidence level and nothing can work better than this. And to be confident one certainly needs continuous exercise in various topics.”

When examination is quite near, it is difficult to study each and every topic. Those who are regular at homework and studying thoroughly everyday do not face much problems but those who missed doing this face difficulties prior to examinations. “It is better to prepare points for each and every topic,” shares Malla.

There are different types of questions for Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Hence, it is suggested that students must understand the format of the question beforehand.

Kamal Panthi, science teacher, V S Niketan School, tips, “Students should develop a habit of solving old question papers. The collection of old papers are available in the market and apart from simple twists in the question, most of them are repeated.”

While Physics contains more objective type questions, questions of Biology test knowledge levels and need descriptive answers. Hence, while answering the questions of Physics, one has to stick to theory and must be accurate, whereas in Biology students can demonstrate their grasp of the subject by elaborating the answers.

Malla suggests, “Students should emphasise on numerical of Physics and Chemistry which are helpful in securing full marks whereas in descriptive answers they might lose some marks.”

There are certain topics, which are normally not missed in SLC in which students can put more effort. Panthi suggests, “Periodic table, solubility are some topics in Chemistry which are ‘not to miss’ topics. Questions from electricity and magnetism are generally repeated in Physics with numerical and cell division and monohybrid/ dihybrid cross theories in Biology are often quite easy to answer.”