Typing practice for computer-based exams
When an exam is typed, slow or error-prone typing costs marks: time spent hunting for keys is time not spent answering. Type to Study trains typing on the exact material you'll be examined on.
Exams you now type
Many of the world's biggest exams are taken on a computer, with written answers typed rather than handwritten:
- English tests: IELTS on computer, TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic and the Duolingo English Test
- Professional exams: ACCA computer-based exams, the CFA exams, and many licensing exams
- Admissions tests: GMAT, GRE and the computer-based medical licensing exams
- Digital school exams, such as Finland's Matriculation Examination and many NCEA exams in New Zealand
- University exams taken on laptops or as online home exams
Why practise typing on your own subject
Generic typing tests use random words. In an exam you type subject vocabulary: technical terms, formulas written out, names and definitions. Practising on your own lessons builds speed on exactly those words, and learns the material at the same time.
Typing a sentence makes you process every word in order, and the recall pass makes you produce the key terms yourself. Producing an answer, rather than rereading it, is what moves knowledge into long-term memory.
How to practise
- Type each lesson once in Copy mode to build speed and accuracy
- Do the recall pass with key terms hidden, as the exam won't show them
- Type model answers to long questions until you can produce them without looking
- Watch your words per minute and accuracy rise lesson by lesson
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