How do you learn best for your (school) exam?

These 10 learning tips will help you during the preparation for your final exams!

Start learning in time

Learning an exam takes time. It’s not something you can start a day in advance. If you start on time, you can divide the fabric into small pieces, so you don’t have to learn everything at once. This gives time to repeat the fabric which will make you remember better.

Learn not passively but active

Do not go through your note too often but also practice with assignments and past exams (use the free digital exam bundle). While making exercises, you are always asked to think about the material you have just learned. This also makes you better with tools like dictionaries and the binas. Sats Papers Hub supports students by giving them access to a wide range of past SATs papers (KS1, KS2, and KS3 Papers and Phonics), mark schemes, and answer booklets with which it is possible to revise effectively and become confident in your SATs prep. 

Repeat the Theory

We can’t repeat it often, but repeat the theory. By repeating the exam material a lot, you remember it much better. Repeat not only the theory, but also the exercises that you find difficult!

Learn up to 3 hours in a row

The brain takes up little after 3 hours of learning. There is no point in learning for 8 hours in a row, because unfortunately you will not remember most of it. After those 3 hours, do something different so that your brain can recharge.

Overheat yourself

Tell yourself what you are learning. This may be a bit of getting used to at first, but by telling you out loud what you’re learning, you’ll remember the material faster. For example, after each chapter or part, you can give a summary of what you just learned.

Provide a nice study space

For good concentration, it is important that there is no distraction in the environment. Find a place where you are not disturbed and make sure it is cleaned up here. A messy desk provides a lot of distractions. Your brain then gets too many stimuli that think of other things than learning.

Make a Plan

You must have heard it before. That’s because it’s really going to help you! Planning provides structure and overview. It takes some time to make a lot of planning, but it will reduce the exam stress. You don’t want to be surprised and come in time. Try to really keep planning. Hang it in plain sight so you can’t ignore it! Read here how to make a good planning.

Try to really understand the material

Not only read the theory well, but test it by means of statements whether you really understand the theory. In addition, it is important that you not only understand how that one amount should, but also really try to understand how the formula works and what you can do with it. If you do this, you can make any tasks!

I dare to ask for help

It really doesn’t matter to ask your parents, girlfriends and/or teacher if you don’t understand. This often saves you a lot of time. And if you find that you have difficulty with a certain subject, then use extra help in the form of tutoring or, for example, an online exam training. With an online exam training you will not only get the material explained in videos, you can also ask exam trainers via chat if you do not understand something or get stuck with a task! 

Make small cheat sheets

Pretend you to make a cheat sheet. What would you put on there? It is difficult to learn a whole summary by heart and therefore you should make small notes. On these notes there is actually a summary of the summary so that you really remember the most important thing. Leave the cheat sheets at home, you don’t need them!