General information » How do I learn for a test?

0.	Take learning for maths seriously. Everything you learn with maths will be used again in a future chapter. So learning in such a way so you only know it on the day of the test, is not a smart thing to do.

1.	Learning for a test already starts when you are doing exercise 1 of the homework. Do the exercises attentively by asking yourself what you have to know and be able to do after this exercise. Try to really understand the exercise and / or the corresponding formula. This helps you a lot in learning for a test.

2.	Check your work! Checking is not only correcting your work, but - more importantly - figuring out why you had it wrong. So try to learn what you should do different when you will have to do a similar exercise.

3.	Learn the theory from the sections and look carefully at the examples. Do you have access to the digital book? Watch the explanation films. The summary is mostly shorter and often with less examples. Sometimes the summary does have different examples than the ones in the sections.

4.	Look in your notebook for notes that you wrote down. Also look at (or do) the exercises you had wrong again. You can learn a lot from your mistakes! Because you checked your homework with a different colour you can easily find these mistakes.

5.	Make a summary and / or a mindmap of what you need to know and what you should be able to do.

6.	Do a Test yourself / Practice test / Diagnostic test that can be found in most mathematics text books and check your work to see what still needs work and concentrate on learning that. In the Netherlands: Modern Mathematics:
	a.	Do the Goals achieved?-exercises at the end of each section and check these.
	b.	Do the Summary / Extra exercises entirely or only the ones the Goals achieved?-exercises directed you to and check these.
	c.	Do the Practice test and check your work.
	Numbers and Space:
	a.	Do the Learning Goals Check at the end of each section and check these.
	b.	Do the Mixed exercises and check these.
	c.	Do the Learning Goals Test / D(iagnostic) test and check these.
	d.	Do the Revision entirely or only the ones you had wrong in the Learning Goals Test and check these.
	Do the Diagnostic test and check your work!

Other hints to get a high mark:

-	Make sure you have a pencil, ruler (geo-triangle), eraser, two colouring pencils and, if needed for the test, your calculator and/or your pair of compasses.
-	Write with a pencil, blue or black ball point pen (so no gel pen either). Always draw with a pencil.
-	Read the questions calmly and carefully and answer (only) what is asked!
-	Do not forget your calculation/explanation/proof and your units (for example: cm, m², kg, km/u, €)!
-	Check when your finished, whether you answered every (sub)question.