Hey Eleanor. You will remember more if you spend the time retrieving, not rereading. Use this 30 minute timer routine. Minute 0 to 1 pick two topics and put your phone on Do Not Disturb with the timer open. Minutes 1 to 13 do a blurting round on paper. Close the book and write everything you can recall for those topics and like definitions, steps, dates, and formulas.
Minutes 13 to 16 check with the book and mark misses or shaky items with a star. Minutes 16 to 24 review only the starred items and build simple prompts for them, like Q on one side and A on the other on scraps of paper. Minutes 24 to 30 do a second recall round from memory on the starred items and two random ones you got right earlier. To keep focus, face a wall, put the phone on DND with the screen down, and study in the same quiet spot each night. Since long reading makes you zone out, turn headings and bold terms into questions first, skim for answers, then cover and write or say the answers from memory. For facts and vocab use cover write check, and for processes use the Feynman test by explaining the steps in simple words as if to a younger teammate. Keep a tiny hard list of misses and bring them back on a simple spaced loop like next day, two days later, and a week later, and on test day spend the first minute doing a quick brain dump of the formulas or steps you drilled.
