How to Get Answers to Difficult Exercises

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Difficult exercises and having to find solution to them is a part of life as a student. It is very important to have the right mindset about difficult exercises so you do not end up compounding an already dicey situation. Here are some very potent tips that would aid your quest to get solutions to difficult exercises.

Go through your notes
This is the very first step to take in solving difficult exercises. The tip or hint you need to solve that problem may be hidden in a line of the notes your teacher or lecturer gave to you. Take your time to go through your notes and mine the treasures hidden within them. If you do not have a complete note, do well to complete your note by collecting your colleague’s or class mate’s note for that purpose. Do not ignore the potency of your notes as a means of getting solutions to difficult exercises. Do not skim through the note, read it steadily and deliberately. Remember, you are trying to mine for hidden facts and hints that would help you solve that difficult exercise.

Look closely at examples
Sample solutions to related problems provide powerful insights into how a difficult exercise might be solved. Take your time to understand all the steps and processes that gave rise to the answers of the examples done in class and textbooks. Examples are most often clear expressions of the basics needed to solve any kind of problem regarding a particular course of study. If you do not take time to understand all the examples given concerning the topic in question, you may find it challenging to solve difficult exercises.

Try using your central processing unit
The brain is a true powerhouse and you have to put it to work. When difficult exercises are thrown your way, settle down, look closely at the question, and feed it gradually to your brain by reading the question slowly and repeatedly. Give your brain time to ruminate over the question. The brain, if given enough time, would sort out the known from the unknown and begin to look for ways to get the unknown. The more often you get correct solutions to difficult exercises this way, the better your central processing unit (brain) would become at delivering solutions to even more challenging questions.

Get more textbooks out
Sometimes, the only textbook you have may not be able to give you the solutions you desire. It may be high time you moved to the library and get your hands on more textbooks that are related to the difficult exercise you want to solve. When you consult more literature, you get exposed to a wider range of examples and with good luck, the actual solution to the difficult exercise.

Try the internet
The World Wide Web is an encyclopedia of epic proportions and with it; you can get access to an impressive wealth of resources to solve difficult exercises. It is so easy now. All you need is a mobile device or a desktop and internet access.

Escalate
This is usually the next step after trying out the previous five steps. Share the difficult exercise with your friends, colleagues, course mates and even teachers that can help you get solution to the problem. Seek out intelligent people within or outside your age group with sufficient know-how to help with difficult questions. A senior brother in the university, that brilliant boy in your class and a host of others can help you solve those difficult exercises.

Keep trying
If after trying all your best, the difficult question remains unsolved, do not be discouraged. Keep trying and trying and trying. The solution would eventually come.

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