- Read the exam chapters over several days a little at a time. Create mind maps, summaries, lists, or diagrams. Make sure you understand the chapters and their vocabulary. Remember to read through your notes in your notebook.
- Revise the meaning of key concepts: explain them in your own words and practice writing them correctly. Decline the concepts by placing them in different sentences. Make sure you do not confuse a concept with a related term or a broader or narrower concept.
- Review grammar by practicing unfinished tasks and redoing completed tasks. Recall the following:
- What is the meaning of the grammar phenomenon? What does it add to the word or sentence?
- Which part of speech or sentence structure is it?
- If the topic is related to inflection, think about to which structure is the form attached (e.g. singular 1st person / plural 3rd person / infinitive for verbs; vowel or consonant stem for nouns)?
- What steps are needed to create the form?
- How does consonant gradation (kpt-change) relate to the topic?
- If the topic is related to sentences: What changes occur in the whole sentence when the phenomenon is applied? (for example, changing the verb in a sentence to negative may introduce the partitive: Luen kirjan. – En lue kirjaa.)
- Review vocabulary from the chapters so you can answer longer questions as well. Check that you know how to write proper nouns correctly.
- Read the literature text in advance if the exam requires it. If notes are allowed, prepare them beforehand.
- For writing and speaking tasks, revise the evaluation criteria so that you know what constitutes a good performance.
