Testing yourself

In the section on using learning cycles, I said that testing yourself was vital. In fact, it's so important that I've written a separate page on ways to do it.

The most thing to realise is that you should spend more time testing yourself than you do in learning in the first place. It's while you are doing the testing that the brain really takes in the information properly.

Make sure you have plenty of questions that you can test yourself with. They can come from:
-Text books and revise guides.
-Practice papers.
-Internet sites.
-Your own questions that you have asked while studying.

I have a separate page on using questions as a learning activity.

As well as testing your subject knowledge, I suggest you keep thinking about how well you are learning. Which learning activities work best for you? Which note-taking ideas work best? How can you use a greater variety of methods? Keep reviewing what you do and how you do it. One of the keys to success is being aware of constant improvement.

[-> next, go to the first page of the section on learning activities - Read, cover, test ]

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