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People often ask me to mentor
& help them through exams. Here's some quick tips to get you started...
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Make reading
FUN! Education is free for all.
We all have the same opportunities. But, instead of boring old
books, most young people (and those of us who can grab an opportunity on
the internet at work) can look up FUN and interesting studies and
research. 'Reading' doesn't have to be boring.
click here to get you started.
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Make studying
FUN! Visit the Equestrian Federation
of Australia's website (or your country's Federation), and find your rule
book for your sport. Get a cheap microphone from $2-00 store like I
did, and dictate the entire rule book it into your computer. Burn a
CD and play it in the car. As a judge, we have to know every one of
those rules. That's how I study for all my exams.
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Watch videos.
I spent every single lunch time when I was the Spokeswoman for Workcover
sitting in one of the conference rooms watching the video of the previous
dressage judge's clinic and exams. I nearly wore that video out!
This was a BIG KEY to my passing the practical side of judging.
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My best trick . When I learned
piano as a child, I remember that they used to have little 'words' so
you could remember things. Some of the notes in music are
'F', 'A', 'C', 'E'. Needless to say that's an easy
one...just remember FACE, and you've got it! I
In my exams I always do the same thing. For judging, I looked
at
EVERY SINGLE MOVEMENT, and decided there were about eleven things you
had to remember: such as:
Footfall,
on the Bit,
Angle,
Regularity, Straightness
etc, and change it to something catchy & sill I remember. something
like Five Bad
Aligators Run
Straight.
Then, going into the exam I right the silly ditty down, and then remember
that F is Footfall,
and B is on the Bit
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"No written word,
no spoken plea can teach our
youth what they should be...
Nor all the books
on all the shelves, it’s what the
teachers are themselves"
Coach John Wooden, one of the most successful basketball coaches in
NCAA history.
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