Doing mock exams may seem like an unnecessary evil – forcing you to revise over the Christmas break and getting you all stressed out way before the real exams come round. But they’re actually important for a number of reasons. Not least for the fact that they actually enhance your memory.
If you study something because you know you’re going to be tested on it, you’re aiming to achieve ‘active recall’. When you absorb information in this state, your brain will encode and store the material much more efficiently – thus the studying you do for your mock ‘tests’ is laying valuable groundwork for your real exams in the summer.
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