collun I think it depended a bit on the subject for me.

For maths, I liked just smashing out practice questions, because it gave me a better appreciation of the patterns and typical question structures. Going over old questions I got wrong was also very useful (not much point just doing practice questions without taking anything away from them IMO).

For more content-heavy stuff, I liked writing summaries to make sure I understood the content. I then also put some of these summaries/main points on flashcards, and asked people to test me on the content. Typically I write more fluently than I speak, so I found that if I could explain something verbally, I could probably write about it, too.

What about you? What do you find is best?

      Joseph41 To be honest I've come here to get a better outlook on study and school as I want to do better, the revision of questions that for maths is similar to what I would do, but for other subjects I would usually just cram some definitions or topics which I have trouble on, but this doesn't work very well for me.

      I like your ideas of main summaries and then asking someone to test you, I might give that a try soon.

      Thanks!

          collun Nice - I'd be interested to hear how it goes! I also did a similar thing for any definitions I needed to know basically word for word, but that's probably quite subject-dependent.

          Are you a visual learner? Diagrams and charts can also be really useful as a type of summary.

            collun

            At a high school level I was basically just doing practice exams/essays as revision. For questions I got wrong I would write them down in a notebook. I included any error so even if it was just a "careless error" I included it to make sure I could try to remember those errors to not make in the actual exam. If I got a question wrong due to a knowledge gap I would read up around that topic and also include it in the notebook. This allowed me to read through my mistakes easily before the exam to reduce the chance of making those same mistakes in the actual exam.

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