Students can improve their performance in exams, by understanding the various factors affecting their performance.

1. Factors Affecting Student
Performance in Examination
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2. Performance of a student
depends on
1.Personal factors.
2.Class related factors.
3.Examination related factors.
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3. Personal factors:
His own efforts for success which
depends on the following:
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4. Personal factors:
1.Is he attentive in class?
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5. Personal factors:
2.Is he regular in attending the
classes?
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6. Personal factors:
3. Does he revise his lesson
regularly?
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7. Personal factors:
4. Life perspective: What he wants to
become?
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8. Class related factors:
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9. Class related factors:
1.Teacher related factors: Is teacher
intelligent, content (satisfied),
compassionate etc.
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10. Class related factors:
2. Subject matter: Is subject
interesting, easy, related to daily life
situations, difficult etc.
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11. Class related factors:
3. Classmates: Other classmates are
intelligent /dull/participating/non-
participating.
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12. Examination related factors:
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13. Examination related factors:
1. Is he able to concentrate while
writing his paper?
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14. Examination related factors:
2. Has he read the question paper
thoroughly?
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15. Examination related factors:
3.Is his presentation in examination
up to the mark?
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16. Examination related factors:
4.Is he able to complete his paper in
time?
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17. Examination related factors:
5.Is he able to reproduce correctly in
examination?
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18. Common factors:
Is his mind pre-occupied with
something? Family problems, peer
pressure etc. Is the student extrovert or
introvert?
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19. External factors:
Some noise outside the examination
hall, incident on the way to school or
examination hall.
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