14 Ways to Keep Your Mind Sharp For a Lifetime - Page 6

6. Practice.

If you’re taking a class and will be writing the answer to a surprise question on a test, make up a likely question and do the exercise of writing an answer, with a timer on. Do it again.

Actually try to solve the sample problems in the materials you’re using; don’t just read the answers. Make up similar problems, try to solve them, and later on, at the end of a study period, find sources that can tell you whether your answers were correct.  If you’re learning a new language, you might write out some questions and answers and show them to a native speaker at your next opportunity.

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