1. When to study and how much?

The testing effect is simply to test oneself. For example using flashcards or questioning yourself with questions you expect on the test. This is the best way to remember and comprehend what you are learning because you must retrieve the information to the answer from you...

This basically means that the more your practice resembles the exam, the more your practice efforts will transfer into actual results. Which means whatever material that you use to study, the closer it is to the test the easier the test will be when done. 

This is when you this that your understanding of something is a lot deeper than it actually is. You need to know the difference between what factual knowledge you have in order to build of of it. There are ways to avoid this however, the best one is to us the Feynman tech...

I will not expand on this except the fact that this is one of the best ways to understand material for any subject. Here is a link to the video that I recommend Feynman Technique - Thomas Frank. 

1. Mock tests and exams
2. Problems
3. Self-generated questions or writing prompts

The best kind of practice is called transfer-appropriate processing. In short TAP. The nex...

A deep understanding of you material is required as memory alone will not help you in some cases.

Understanding material is > than memory

Do not fall in the trap of "the illusion of explanatory depth"

You should also not study very late the day before the test. Late night studies are going to make you very tired the next day and not have the right mindset to be ready to take a test. Instead, you can study briefly before you go to bed and then in the morning you should ...

The solution to beat anxiety is to do a full stimulation of the test. For example, same seating posture, materials and, most importantly, the same time constraints.There’s three benefits to doing full simulations:

1. You increase your temp...