How to revise for competitive exams: a simple spaced method

Re-reading feels productive because the page looks familiar, but familiarity is not recall. In the exam you must produce the answer from memory, so practise that directly.

Spaced repetition means meeting the same material again at increasing gaps. A common pattern is: the day after learning, three to four days later, about two weeks later, then monthly until the exam. Each pass can be short because you are refreshing, not relearning.

Close the book and write down everything you remember about the topic, then check what you missed. Practise with explained questions; the explanation is the check. After each mock, feed your mistakes into the plan using the method in how to analyse a mock test.