RES Exam Tips and Tricks
(Updated May 2014)
Stressed with the RES papers? Fret not! Here is a collection of curated tips and tricks which would be useful to help you prepare for your RES exam.
- Always make a point to attend all the lessons of the RES course to understand the real estate industry and its terms. Remember that the government policies and regulations keep changing hence you need to keep current.
- Take down important points that your course tutor mentioned. The tutor would have the latest updates on repeated questions that may recur again and again.
- Try to read the notes after each class on that particular chapter that your course tutor taught. Try to read it within 24 hours or revise that particular chapter within that week in order to remember what is going on for that chapter.
- Make sure you have read through the whole notes at least once.
- Get sample questions from your course tutor as it is very important to know how the exam questions look like and how they question it. You can start with 100Questions' very comprehensive question bank.
- Attend the last few revision lesson from your course centre as your course tutor will go through the important points on each topics.
- Focus your time on those important topics first and prepare your own notes by writing them down.
- Try not to study the whole stack of notes as you will be confused over everything. Just focus on those important topics that you have written your own notes on. All sorts of calculation is a must know as you need it for real life situation too. Based on this, it will be ideal to pace yourself by allocating an hour or two a day to focus on each competency unit (CU).
- For the calculation questions, remember to prepare a calculator, and memorise the essential formulas. If unsure, refer to our RES formula section. Or even better, equip yourself with our RES Exam Cheat Sheet, which is a compilation of more than 100 pages of quality notes, formulas, dates, terms, and more.
- Make sure you prepared your notes earlier and have at least 2 days clear for studying your own notes. Remember there is a lot of things to remember so in order to play safe, 2 days is the minimum.
- Prepare paper 1 first and follow by paper 2. Once you finish preparing for both, revise on paper 1 notes again to prepare for the day 1 paper 1 exam.
Stressed with the RES papers? Fret not! Here is a collection of curated tips and tricks which would be useful to help you prepare for your RES exam.
- Always make a point to attend all the lessons of the RES course to understand the real estate industry and its terms. Remember that the government policies and regulations keep changing hence you need to keep current.
- Take down important points that your course tutor mentioned. The tutor would have the latest updates on repeated questions that may recur again and again.
- Try to read the notes after each class on that particular chapter that your course tutor taught. Try to read it within 24 hours or revise that particular chapter within that week in order to remember what is going on for that chapter.
- Make sure you have read through the whole notes at least once.
- Get sample questions from your course tutor as it is very important to know how the exam questions look like and how they question it. You can start with 100Questions' very comprehensive question bank.
- Attend the last few revision lesson from your course centre as your course tutor will go through the important points on each topics.
- Focus your time on those important topics first and prepare your own notes by writing them down.
- Try not to study the whole stack of notes as you will be confused over everything. Just focus on those important topics that you have written your own notes on. All sorts of calculation is a must know as you need it for real life situation too. Based on this, it will be ideal to pace yourself by allocating an hour or two a day to focus on each competency unit (CU).
- For the calculation questions, remember to prepare a calculator, and memorise the essential formulas. If unsure, refer to our RES formula section. Or even better, equip yourself with our RES Exam Cheat Sheet, which is a compilation of more than 100 pages of quality notes, formulas, dates, terms, and more.
- Make sure you prepared your notes earlier and have at least 2 days clear for studying your own notes. Remember there is a lot of things to remember so in order to play safe, 2 days is the minimum.
- Prepare paper 1 first and follow by paper 2. Once you finish preparing for both, revise on paper 1 notes again to prepare for the day 1 paper 1 exam.
- Prepare all the necessary items like NRIC, pencil, pen, eraser, calculator and sweater (for keeping warm). Make sure you have a good night sleep before the actual exam.
- On actual exam day, make sure you are not doing any last minute revision outside the exam hall as it will make you confuse and unable to concentrate on the exam.
- Don’t panic if you don’t know how to answer certain question. Try to move on to the next question without stopping your momentum. Just circle the question you don’t know and go back to it when you have finished the whole paper.
- Tick on those questions that you have confident on getting a mark and have a rough calculation of how many total marks you will get from the paper. Do this exercise when you have finished the whole paper and is doing checking. If you can’t have a minimum of 30 ticks for each paper, this shows that you have not prepared well for the paper and what you need is purely luck for you to pass the exam.
- Prepare the exam for the 2nd paper for the day after paper 1 and do your best accordingly.
- Keep track of time and make sure that you are not stuck to a question for too long a time. If you are unsure about a question, skip it and make a note to come back to it again if you have time. In this way, you are not stuck with any questions for too long.
- Make sure you have faith in yourself and don’t panic when you are taking the exam as staying focus is the key to passing the exam. What you need is really staying focus to let you remember the things you have learnt so far and apply them on answering the questions. Don’t worry too much as it will not help, just remember the reasons why you want to take this exam and it will get you through. No point worrying as you should have been well-prepared what is needed for the exam and what you just need is do your best.
- On actual exam day, make sure you are not doing any last minute revision outside the exam hall as it will make you confuse and unable to concentrate on the exam.
- Don’t panic if you don’t know how to answer certain question. Try to move on to the next question without stopping your momentum. Just circle the question you don’t know and go back to it when you have finished the whole paper.
- Tick on those questions that you have confident on getting a mark and have a rough calculation of how many total marks you will get from the paper. Do this exercise when you have finished the whole paper and is doing checking. If you can’t have a minimum of 30 ticks for each paper, this shows that you have not prepared well for the paper and what you need is purely luck for you to pass the exam.
- Prepare the exam for the 2nd paper for the day after paper 1 and do your best accordingly.
- Keep track of time and make sure that you are not stuck to a question for too long a time. If you are unsure about a question, skip it and make a note to come back to it again if you have time. In this way, you are not stuck with any questions for too long.
- Make sure you have faith in yourself and don’t panic when you are taking the exam as staying focus is the key to passing the exam. What you need is really staying focus to let you remember the things you have learnt so far and apply them on answering the questions. Don’t worry too much as it will not help, just remember the reasons why you want to take this exam and it will get you through. No point worrying as you should have been well-prepared what is needed for the exam and what you just need is do your best.
