The most effective way to prepare for exams for you is to consistently self-test at a high level of difficulty for all material and to make your own flashcards.

You all complain about how to study and waste your time in the process and you’re still doing it the wrong way after all this time.<br><br>I’m a alumni of a UK top 10 uni and I’ve recently been looking through this sub out of interest. I’m also about to start a masters in September. <br><br>Firstly the most effective way to learn is through spaced repetition, this means you learn your material throughout the entire term when you can comfortably review and this helps you retain your knowledge. When you get to the end of the term, you will have learned and retained most of the material you would have crammed, so it is all up hill from there. <br><br>As for your actual revision: <br><br>The best form of revision is self testing. Don’t listen to those who say you should be teaching yourself by trying to teach others. <br><br>The best form of self testing comes in the form of attempting exam questions and marking yourself. It’s not enough to just attempt them. <br><br>You need to mark yourself, or you will never know if you actually answered the question correctly. <br><br>Write feedback at the top of each answer about your performance on that question if you like and your self testing process is complete. <br><br>If you’re doing a science degree: make your own flashcards. <br><br>You don’t need to read them, just write in the notes you are going to need for the next time you go through the material into flashcards! <br><br>It’s got something to do with the way your brain is keeping the information because you are writing it down, rather than highlighting it. <br><br>Write feedback on your flashcards if you need to. <br><br>Set yourself a target of how many flashcards you will get right in a row. This will help with your focus. <br><br>The key here is to write feedback now because you won’t remember how to do the question in the exam. <br><br>So you can self test for your exam questions and your flashcards for your theory. <br><br>When you get to the exam try to answer the questions you consistently get wrong. <br><br>This is the most effective way to learn and revise and I know this because I used this method throughout my entire time at university. <br><br>I got a 2:1 from a top 10 uni and all my grades were either firsts or 2:2s and I never got a third.