Your brain really does shut down and any studying you do after that point is just a waste of time. Take a 3-minute break and think about other things. Upon returning, review what you have just studied. That s great. It s not enough to read some notes and write down some information.
Parents can help by quizzing students using class notes, study guides, or the textbook.
When the student can correctly answer the questions, correctly spell and define the vocabulary terms, and correctly solve equations, then test preparation is complete. Have them teach it to you. My explaining the procedure, demonstrating the skill, or defining vocabulary terms to you, the student is committing the information to memory. This is a list of comments from test papers, essays, etc., submitted to science and health teachers by elementary, middle, high school, and college students. It is truly astonishing what weird science our young scholars can create under the pressures of time and grades.