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A high score in both these components is what is required for you to succeed. In order to accomplish this, you need to know how to best prep for them. You do not have to be the smartest; you need to bethe most prepared. From my experience leading my chapter, I found that people were intimidated by the exam, and it was their weaker point. The mentality was, “I’ll get a high score on the role play to make up for the exam,” or, “I’ll just try as hard as I can when I get around to doing the actual exam.” The importance of the exam is overshadowed by the glamour of the role play, and as a result it is not practiced as often. Also, what I found was that however obvious it seems, people simply do not know how they should approach the exam to improve their scores. The answer is: just do every exam available to you. And then repeat them until you are consistently in the 90’s. Everything else I tell you builds upon the fact that you will put in the time and effort to doing all the exams available to you.  \nThe first step: Gathering all available resources  \nYour chapter will have many resources available for your use. DECA Ontario also provides chapters with past exams and role plays, as well as various other training resources atthe annual fall symposium. Many of the resources are also available online on the DECA Ontario website. Your job, as a competitor, is to go through all the resources available, and create a separate folder which contains every exam, role play, and prep document which is relevant to you. Once you have done this, you can rest assured that you have more than enough prep material required for every level of competition, including Internationals. It is primarily through the exams provided by DECA Ontario that I prepared for competition.  \nGaining cluster knowledge  \nMost people get a score anywhere from the mid-50s to the low 70s on their first exam. A competitive score at Internationals, depending on your category, is generally in the low 90s. If you cannot possibly imagine getting a score in the 90s, do not fret! Getting a high score is almost exclusively dependant on how much you practice.  \nFor many of the questions, you will not have the knowledge required to answer them. In order to gain the required understanding of the topics, I recommend familiarizing yourself with the performance indicators of your category. Going over what the indicators mean and becoming briefly acquainted with them will suffice. However, do not spend all your time going over the performance indicators! I recommend a week of intensive studying of the performance indicators, no more. It is far more efficient to familiarize yourself with the indicators by doing the exams and checking the answers to the questions you get wrong. Thereis always a sufficient explanation provided for each answer.  \nAfter studying the performance indicators, start doing the practice exams. Use time to your advantage; there is generally a lot of time between competitions for you to prepare. Make it your goal to do one or two exams every day, aiming to do each exam available to you at least once. You will notice that as you do more exams, your score will slowly begin to rise. Make sure to check all the answers to the questions you get wrong! This will help you familiarize yourself to that concept and get it right the next time you do it. Doing practice exams is time intensive, but it is also unbelievably rewarding when you get called up to the stage at the awards ceremony.  \nFamiliarize yourself with the “What are those?!”  \nThere are some questions that appear very frequently in the exams. Every competitor knows and fears them. These include the questions on databases, the various types of queries, different kinds of logic, etc. Having gone through many exams, I have identified some of these tough categories and listed many of them below. 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