Practise drafting answers - e.g. in five minutes write down all the main points for e.g. a 30 minute question. See what you have to do to complete your answer within the time limits. This should also help you discover which type of question you are good at - and which not so good. Match this against how much choice you have. Remember, working together to prepare for examinations helps everybody .
Preparation is non-competitive.
In the actual examination, then you are on your own, but even so, you are mainly competing with yourself and the examination paper - that it should not defeat you. The best way to overcome the examination is to be well informed about it, so, I repeat - get hold of previous examination papers as early as possible . Model answers Some schools may provide you with model answers to questions. Find out who these were written by. Good answers to questions written by students who did well in the examination in the past can prove very helpful.