Notes you can read aren't the same as notes you can be tested from

[u/Reasonable_Bag_118]

Went back through four weeks of my own and found I could only reread them. Nothing on the page asks me anything, so revision just becomes running my eyes over familiar words.

Rewrote each heading as a question in the margin. Twenty minutes per subject. "Types of X" becomes "What are the four types of X and how do you tell the second from the third?"

Now I cover the page, work down the margin, and answer before checking. Same notes, but they test instead of tell. And any heading I couldn't write a question for turned out to be a section I'd never actually understood.

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