Higher Order Thinking Skills!

Higher Order Thinking Skills!

Board’s exams are right around the corner and the students have pulled their socks up to burn the mid night fuel.

You must be working hard to score well and to do so you must be revising your entire syllabus but don’t forget to solve ‘HOTS’.

Yes, I am talking about Higher Order Thinking Skills questions. You might not get them as a separate section, but they can play a vital role in fetching you good marks. Not only in exams, but higher order thinking skills helps you everywhere as it helps a student to evaluate, connect, categorize and apply the information you know to find solutions to new and existing problems.

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“I have recently given my pre- boards exams and I realized that the questions were not that easy, although they were all from our book. I feel that if I will understand the topic better it will be much easier for me to answer questions without ratifying them”, says Rohan, a student of Class 12.

“Higher order thinking includes critical, logical, reflective and creative thinking. They are activated when an individual encounters unfamiliar problems, uncertainties, questions or dilemmas that are a part of the board exams just because through this the student can understand that if they grasp the concept of subjects, it will be much easier to solve the problems”, says Mohit Chaudhary, career counselor.

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Usually, the question in boards come from the textbook itself and seem like puzzles for the students because of the way they twist the questions. But if a student is good at reasoning and is strong in the basics, the questions can be solved easily.

HOTS is also called artful thinking because it can make a child more logical and higher order thinking helps students in the long run.

So, next time whenever you study any subject, make sure that you not only learn the facts but also try to understand the concept so that if any question comes in the form of a statement, you can easily answer them.

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Not only are higher order thinking skills helpful in getting good results in your board exams, they also help you in your entrance exams.

This ensures that all your knowledge gets channelized the right way and you use it to fetch benefits in the long run.