4 Steps to prepare for a test:
1. Review the most difficult material immediately before bedtime. Going to sleep right afterwards consolidates the information in your memory.
2. No distractions when studying. Turn off all music, text messages, televisions and email. Distractions make you less likely to remember material you were studying at the time.
3. Repetition --- Repetition --- Repetition. Test yourself repeatedly. Students remember more when they force themselves to retrieve concepts than when they simply re-read the textbook or their notes.
4. "Eat oatmeal for breakfast". In other words, a balanced, slow-digesting diet provides a sustained flow of glucose to the brain.
[Excerpts from: The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, October 26, 2011, page D1]
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