Before facing any exam, be it theory, or clinicals or viva, it is desirable to plan for the answers you are going to give. Your answers should attract the examiner in a unique way and that will make him sit up and notice you.
A theory answer should have a plan in the first page which tells the examiner what he is going to read in the next few pages. The plan should consist of the broad side headings and classification.
Confine the short note to two pages. Diagrams and flow charts tell the examiner what you want to convey much more effectively than volumes of written pages.
During clinical exam, see that you are the speaker and the examiner is the listener. Do not allow it to be the other way round.
Lead the examiner to the points you want to tell him rather than the points which he wants to ask you.
Act as the consultant discussing the case with a colleague rather than the student facing a barrage of questions.
During viva-voce, radiology interpretation is given weightage. Always start with the most obvious abnormality in the radiology film.
