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How To Remember What You Read For Exams

Posted on October 23, 2025 By CampusTimesNG No Comments on How To Remember What You Read For Exams
My study tips have helped millions of students. Let me show you some practicable tips on how to remember what you read for exams.
To remember what you read for exams, use active learning techniques like summarizing, self-testing, and teaching others, as these create deeper engagement than passive methods like rereading.
Employ memory aids like mnemonics (the study techniques for remembering anything more easily.), acronyms (an abbreviation formed by the beginning letters or syllables of other words), and visuals to make information easier to recall.

Also, prioritize spaced repetition by reviewing material over time, ensuring adequate sleep to consolidate memories, and connecting new information to existing knowledge to build a strong framework in your long-term memory.  

Active Learning Strategies

  • Summarize and Simplify:

Simplify lengthy text into core concepts, key phrases, or even single sentences to grasp the main ideas. 

 

  • Explain to Others (The Feynman Technique):

Teach the material to someone else or explain it in simple terms as if teaching a child. This process reveals gaps in your understanding. 

 

  • Ask Questions:

Actively question the material as you read, thinking about how the information fits with what you already know. 

  • Write it Out:

The physical act of writing helps to register information in your mind, making it easier to recall later. 

Memory Aids (Mnemonics) 

Mnemonics is the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily. Examples of these study techniques include:
  • Acronyms and Phrases: Create meaningful phrases or acronyms from the initial letters of items you need to remember, like the order of planets.
  • Rhymes and Songs: Turn important facts into rhymes or songs to make them more memorable.
  • Mental Images: Create vivid, interesting visual associations between words and images to make information more engaging and easier to process.

Effective Study Habits

  • Spaced Repetition:

Distribute your study sessions over time rather than cramming. Review the material a few days after learning it, then again a week later, and so on, to move it into long-term memory. 

  • Self-Testing:

Regularly test yourself by answering questions about the material. This active recall process is a powerful way to reinforce what you’ve learned. 

  • Get Enough Sleep:

Adequate sleep is crucial for memory consolidation, so allow your brain time to process and store information overnight. 

Connect and Understand

  • Link New Information to Existing Knowledge:

Create meaningful connections between new concepts and information you already know. This builds a stronger, more interconnected memory system.

  • Understand First:
Focus on understanding the information thoroughly rather than just memorizing it. True comprehension makes it easier to remember and apply later.

My exams are tomorrow. How do I memorize and study fast?

Hey! Don’t stress. You just need to strategise your preparation. Let me briefly teach you how to remember what you read for exams.

If your subject is based on rote-learning: Rote learning is a memorization method that relies on repetition to learn information verbatim, rather than understanding its context or meaning.

You can learn it faster as essay in chunks. Now this is what how to do it.

  • Understand what’s written, explain it to yourself.
  • Slowly take a step to learn a phrase at a time.
  • Constantly bring that topic and repeat it.
  • Use oral blurting technique, means after each topic is covered orally summarize the topic and study the information you missed on saying.
  • Don’t stress, study sincerely and block all forms of distractions.
  • You have enough time to bring flying colors.
  • Manifest using subminals before going to sleep. On YouTube search study subminals and listen to them nicely repeating affirmations like ‘I will top tomorrow’.
  • Stay motivated by speaking positive words to yourself. Like, “I am great, I am powerful, I am successful”.
  • I know you will top the exams tomorrow.

7 Practical Ways To Study For Long Hours Without Losing Concentration

I study a lot, but I always forget almost all that I’ve studied. What should I do?
Hey Guys

As i do not know you personally I will give some general reasons (for this) with there remedies

(Please read all, may be some do not apply to you, but some will)

So here we go:

  1. Blind Rattafication: If you try to memorise everything with less conceptual clearity then you need to correct it. So how to remember what you read is to first build concepts much powerfully, then do Rattafication. “Rattafication” is an Indian, often informal, term derived from “ratta” (rote or cramming) referring to the process of memorizing facts and figures, usually for academic examinations, without necessarily understanding the underlying concepts.
  2. Lack of revision: Do you know our mind will forget everything if you do not revise, because our mind is designed in such a way. So make sure you revise everything. Supposing today you studied a Topic then next day before starting another topic, revise the last topics. And after you complete a chapter/unit revise the whole. (Before final exams, revise each topic at least 3–4 times)
  3. Mock Test: Do you like football? Does your favourite  don’t practise in nets? If he practises you are also not an exception. Just write what you read today, find mistake, work on those mistakes. When you are done with the whole syllabus play a practise match (I mean give yourself a mock test, well timed like a real scenario).
  4. Concentration: May be it is what you are lacking. (If yes, then read point no.5)
  5. Edutainment: Try to make your studies entertaining. Following points may help you to do this –
  • Reward yourself for studying for a certain number of hours.
  • Love your studying
  • Make attractive notes

6. My way of studying: Try to connect things with your real life incidents. Interestingly comparing points of your study with real life scenario can help you remember what you read for exam. It adds fun to your study. 

Thank you for reading.

 

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