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Top Reasons Why Students Fail In The Examination (9 Ultimate Reasons)

Top 9 factors that make students fail in the examination.

Are you a student and looking for the top 9 (nine) reasons why almost of the other students fail in the examination? If yes, then we’ve got you covered!

In this article, you will know the top 9 Factors That Make Students Fail In Exams. Students must know that examination is never friendly easy and above all a total challenge to their life endeavour, hence they must go into the examination room fully prepared.

Below in this article, we have listed and explained the top nine (9) Reasons and factors why students fail in exams.

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Top 9 Reasons Why Students Fail In The Examination

Below are the top nine (9) list and explained reasons why students fail exams.

  1. They do not go into exams room with prepared questions
  2. Refusal to stick to examiner’s rules and instructions
  3. Non judicious use of time
  4. Lack of reading
  5. Poor selection of questions
  6. Non relaxation of the mind
  7. Lack of confidence/Panic
  8. Rushing to leave the exam room
  9. Lack of revision

 1. They do not go into exams room with prepared questions:

The first reason why students fail exams is because, they do not go into exams room with prepared questions.

Goinginto exams room with prepared questions means, students must know the questions they will be asked in exam room.

Student should know the type of questions that will come out in the exam room.

If you are a jamb candidate in Nigeria, you should then know how the questions will be asked. Students should know or ask to be known how the exam they will sit for set their questions.

If students do not go into exams room with prepared questions, they will fail exams.

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2. Refusal to stick to examiner’s rules and instructions:

Many students fail exams because they do not stick to examiner’s rules and instructions. Students in the exam room are advised to strictly stick to examiner’s rules and instructions.

The students’ parents may not always be in exam room so, that doesn’t guarantee student to disobey examiner’s rules or instructions.

Examinations malpractice is always the examiner’s rules while the questions needed to be answered or the one that made compulsory is the examiner’s instruction.

Hence, students must stick to the rules and instructions of their examiner in the exam room.

The refusal of students to stick to the examiner’s rules and instructions makes them to fail exams.

Why students fail in the exam consistently

3. Non judicious use of time:

The reason why students fail exams is as a result of non distributing their time very well to study. Students who are wishing to pass exams, should use their time to study judiciously.

Youcan not use less time to read your hard subject for the exam. You should study as hard as possible if exam success is desired.

Student who doesn’t want to fail exams should do not distribute his/her time poorly to study or use his/her time non judiciously.

What non judicious use of time here as a reason why students fail exams want to clarify you is that, you should save your time to read.

Student must minimize how to spend their time, use their time toward their academics.

4. Lack of reading:

The reason why students fail exams is because they do not read.Students who are preparing to sit for a competitive exam like waec should do not have the ability of lack of reading.

Most of the students do not know how to read, hence it makes them to fail exams.

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Some students read but they do not know how to read for the exams. Those students read the book for an exam as if they are reading magazine or novel for fun.

Students should have a mentor to teach them how to read in order to overcome their future exam failures. Students should read the books that matter for their exams if they don’t want to fail.

5. Poor selection of questions:

Poor selection of questions to be answered by students in the exam room makes them to fail.Student should do not make a mistake in selecting questions to be answered in the exams room.

Causes Why Students Always Fail In The Examination Hall

6. Non relaxation of the mind:

Student who wants to sit for an exams needs to relax his/her mind before going into exams room.

If student did not relax his/her mind and stepped into exam room, he/she will not get concentrated, hence his/her exam failure is doable. Non relaxation of mind of the students leads them to fail.

Since relaxation of the mind makes students to perform coolly in exams room, it is recommended to get their mind relaxed like having a deed sleep in a night or in some hours to their exam or preventing other things which can make them to become sad or make them emotionally ill.

7. Lack of confidence/Panic:

Another reason why students fail exams is panic or lack of confidence in exam room.

Student should do not panic in the exams room because lack of confidence in the exams room makes him/her to fail exams.

If you do not want to fail exams, then prevent what can make you panic or lack of confidence in the exams room, if it’s above your control, quietly inform the examiners for assistance, they will gladly help you.

8. Rushing to leave the exams room:

Some students do this in order to be recognized as an intelligent student while their results always look unfavourably. Students must not leave the exams room if they have not throughed with the questions

If you usually leave the exams room very early, you may made many correctable mistakes in your answers thus, you are advised to recheck your work (answers) after you have completed likewise rushing to leave the exam room in order to correct the mistakes you did.

9. Lack of revision:

Atimes, students may not revise what they had taught by teachers in school or themselves for the exams. When you do not practise what you learned in school, you will fail exams.

Hence, lack of revision is one of the reasons why students fail exams.

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