How can you tell if you actually learned the material rather than memorized?

Try teaching it to someone else. If you can do that, then you have learned it. Pure superficial memorization won’t help you when you’re trying to explain an entire concept.

Also, make up your own test questions! Reword things as much as you can imagine–then, you’ll be completely ready for any weird rewordings the test can offer.

Here’s an old study tip that helped get me a few A’s over the years. Always write a summary of the notes you are reading into your own personal language (meaning comfortable conversational slang) Each time you execute the physical act of writing you assist the memory’s ability to store, comprehend and recall. As for the “re-wording” on a test once you have a grasp in your own slang you will suffer less from confusion. Sounds more like you panic during tests. Don’t worry you’re not the only one. Personalizing the language of data will help with that confidence if that is the issue.

You have a few options:

1) Have a friend or parent quiz you beforehand and tell them to ask things out of order, reworded, etc.

2) This has happened to me before. If you just memorized it, you most likely skimmed through the notes. Possibly retype all of the notes and reword/reorganize them. Then, read it out loud to yourself and understand every part of the notes.

I hope I’ve helped!

To know if you really understand something u need to be able to explain the whole thing to another person and feel confidant in yourself that u understand and u know the person understood. Also if u just go and repeat something over and over to yourself in your head then you’re memorizing but if u go through the process of understanding the info and learning everything u can about it and going through the processes and ways of the info, you’re learning. My science teacher taught me this and most schools just work on memorization with overloads of information. They should take time to let the students learn it and not memorize! Well Good Luck!!

You need to ask yourself questions about what you read. If you read from a textbook there are probably questions at the end of the chapter(s) that you read. Just go ahead and answer the questions. You can always ask your teacher if she/he can supply you with some review questions for the test. They would most likely give you a sampling of the questions to be on the test.

u wont know if u truly learned the info. until a while later, and see if u remember it. maybe ur notes were just confusing? i would say to meet with a teacher always before the test if u arent sure about ur notes.

If there are no practice questions.

try making a test or ask someone to make a test for you.

It’s easier to type it. so you can mix the questions. so you

won’t only memorize the answers.

write one question for the tings you know you don’t know.

I know it takes time and sounds stupid, but it helps me.

I sometimes have this memory promblem….

Don’t just read the material, do some exercises. Answer some questions that are in the book.

Everyone who is telling you to teach or explain it to someone else is exactly right. You see, rote memorization is superficial in it’s absorption. It is only when you can conceptualize the data and relay it that you have committed it to memory. Explain it to yourself, if you have to.

You should be able to explain it to someone else in your own words. If you can’t do that yet, go over the material again.