📝 Doing past papers

The best way to do past papers is:

1. Open the paper 📖
2. Work through the questions in order 🔁
3. If you get stuck look at the memo 🗒️
4. If you don’t understand the memo look at your textbook 📕
5. Go back to 2 🔁

When you get stuck and look at the memo or textbook, you are learning more about a topic - which will help you understand the work. 🧠

And when you don’t get stuck you are practicing how to apply the work. ✍🏾

So whether or not you can answer the question, you will always be fullfiling one of the goals of studying. 📚👏🏼

Making notes without looking at the textbook

A lot of people completely waste their time making notes, because they just rewrite the textbook. 🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿

This doesn’t help them understand or apply the work. 😿😿😿

The best way to make notes is:

1. Read a section of the textbook 📗
2. Close the textbook ❎
3. Try and write down as much as you can remember ✍🏻
4. Then look at the textbook and see what you left out 👀

This way you will quickly realise which sections you did not understand, and need to read over again. 📚👓

Once you can write everything in your own words you will know that you understand pretty much perfectly. 💯

Teaching other people the work

If you want to truly test whether or not you understand something you can need to teach it to someone else. 📚📚📚

An easy way to do this is to plan a study session with some friends where each friend teaches one topic. 🧑🏾‍🏫

If people ask you questions about your topic and you can answer them all AND help everyone understand, chances are you understand the work well. 👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿

Hopefully these tips will help you study more effectively, and not waste any time on study methods that don’t actually help you perform well in tests and exam. 💯

Sending hugs and strength. You got this. 💛🤖

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