INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Exam anxiety can affect performance, so make sure you know good strategies to keep your nerves in check in the exam room.  Stop studying an hour before the exam and use this time to take care of yourself. Take a walk or eat something light. If you're poring over material right before an exam begins, you'll likely psych yourself out. Know the time and place of the exam and give yourself extra time to get there. Getting lost or running late can increase anxiety and affect performance. Get a good night's sleep before the exam. Anything that affects you physically can affect you mentally, so make sure you're rested and refreshed before entering the exam room. If you start to feel nervous during the exam, take a moment to stop. While time is an issue, plowing through and exam despite feelings of anxiety will lead to a poor overall performance. Do not hesitate to stop, close your eyes, and take several deep breaths to calm yourself before continuing. There are a variety of strategies you can take to make the most of your time during the exam period and improve your chances of getting a great grade.  Your open book exam will probably be timed. Be aware of how much time you have and take a quick moment to calculate roughly how long you should spend on each question.  Answer any questions you can without notes first. This will save you time by allowing you to get through certain questions without fumbling with your notes. This also gives you more time with the questions where you might have difficulty and need to consult your notes.  If you're really struggling with a question, treat it like you would on any other exam. Simply leave it and come back at the end of the test when you've had time to calm down and gather your thoughts. If you have time left at the end of the exam, go through the questions one more time using your notes to your advantage.  Go back through your exam and check areas that include information that's easily mixed up, like dates, names, vocabulary, and equations. Find any questions that you feel your answers were weak on and try to improve them in the remaining time.

SUMMARY: Stay calm. Use test taking strategies during the exam. Review your answers, if there's time.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you find a baby bird all alone in its nest, don't assume its mother abandoned it. It's more likely she's off getting food for her baby and will return soon. No matter how much it's chirping and crying, never remove a baby from its nest. Think of it as kidnapping. A nestling is a young bird that hasn't grown feathers yet. They sometimes fall out of their nests, which puts them into danger. The best thing you can do for a nestling is to NOT take it home, but try to return it to its nest.  Search nearby trees and bushes for an empty nest. If you can find one, place the bird back into its nest so it can wait for its mother to return. Remember to be gentle when handling it! Birds can be quite good at hiding their nests in nature. If you can't find the nest, you should still try to reunite the baby with its mother by making a manmade nest for it to wait in.  Fill a small box or bowl with dried grass or paper towels, and place the bird in its makeshift nest. Do not use fresh grass, because that could make the baby bird cold You can also use a basket with a handle, then hang the basket from a nearby tree branch. Leave this "nest" where you found the bird. Wait to see if a parent bird comes by to take care of the baby. If, after waiting for an hour or so, you haven't seen any parent birds come to take care of the baby, you should reach out to experts. Licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialists will be best equipped to keep the baby bird healthy and happy.  If you can’t find a rehabilitator on your own, call vets, bird stores or the local Audubon Society and ask them to put you in touch with one. The wildlife rehabilitator will want to know where you found the bird, so he or she can return it to its home when it's healed. Be as specific as possible.

SUMMARY: Do not remove a bird from its nest. Return nestlings to the nest. Make a makeshift nest if you can't find the real one. Call the professionals if no parents come.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: You can make a single timetable that will stay the same each week. Or, you can build a custom one for each week, that changes depending on the specifics of that week. You would build all of your custom timetables at the same time.  For a custom weekly timetable, start in reverse. Start with big assignments or final exams and work backwards. Your study schedule will need to change depending on what big assignments are coming up.  Don’t forget to fill in everything you brainstormed earlier in the process. You should do this before you put in study times. This includes all regular commitments like a sport practice. You need to do this first so you know where you can put your study times. If you’re making a custom weekly timetable, don’t forget to include exceptions like birthdays and holidays. Aim for blocks of study time that are fairly long, such as 2–4 hours at a time. This will help you get into the groove of studying and help you to be more productive with your time.  Just because you don’t have a large chunk of time doesn’t mean you can’t schedule a study period, however. If you feel it will be beneficial to schedule in 45 minutes here or an hour there, by all means, do so. You’re going to want to schedule more time for more difficult classes. Break are essential to your success. You’re not a robot, so you can’t work non-stop for hours on end. You’ll do better overall if you give yourself regular breaks from the work. Many experts recommend that you work for 45 minutes every hour, and then break for 15 minutes. Everyone is different, though, so experiment to find what works best for you. Remember how you gathered all your of assignments and syllabi? Now is the time to put them to use. You can schedule blocks of time for particular classes and also write in assignments and give yourself chunks of time to work on those.  Things will change over time, of course, and something you planned for two months ago may not apply anymore. But don’t let that stop you. Look at this as a helpful guide, something to keep you on track and something that will help you break large assignments into small pieces. If you always have a certain amount of homework for a class every week, that would be great to add to your timetable. For example, if you always have 20 math problems to do each week, you can break this up in your timetable. Working on different subjects during a single session will keep you from getting completely burned out by one subject and having no energy to do anything else. Of course, this can change come exam time when you need to devote all your energy to a single subject! Color coding classes and responsibilities will help make your timetable easier to use and easier on the eyes. You might be looking at this timetable a lot—make it your own! You might want to use colored pencils if it’s on paper. Or you could highlight things on the computer and print in color. If you’re using an online-only app, the timetable will already be color-coded, though you may be able to customize it to some extent.

SUMMARY:
Choose a single or custom timetable. Block your study times. Schedule time for breaks. Be as specific as possible. Schedule multiple subjects during each session. Make your timetable look nice.