As individual students are exposed to new information, they ask themselves questions, corresponding to their specific internal needs for answers.
Schools often fail to answer their questions during the course of instruction.
Thus, the material they teach often fails to stick in their students' heads for very long. And, for this reason, the phenomenon of the finals cram is born. Students labor to cram material into their heads, but since they haven't generated the questions the material might answer, there are not receptive places for the material to be indexed. Nevertheless, they fight against the natural learning process to try to get the material to stick, if only for a little while. Students then take their tests and forget the material a few weeks or months later.