How to make notes for exam prep?

Knowledge management
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The most challenging part of my exam prep is to go through all past paper questions and other guideline pdf documents to get high yield topics — which frequently asked in the exams.

When I’m preparing a topic, I also look back at past papers to check what questions have been asked from it and find answer of that question from a relevant source, which involves a lot of back-and-forth.

My goal is to create notes that:

  • Lists high-yield topics in a note
  • Links each topic to relevant past paper questions.

This way, by the end, I’ll have a clear overview of which topics are most important and the specific questions associated with them.

How would you approach this?

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I keep a separate note called “!key-notes” for each subject where I either embed, link, or rephrase important points.

I also make use the Obsidian Spaced Repetition plugin where important notes/points and questions I struggled with are reviewable under different tags.

I just separate the questions based on subject, but you can also further subdivide them based on the importance.

For example, the tag #fc is set to identify notes that have flashcards and it will detect nested tags as well. So you can use #fc/Subject1/Questions for all questions and #fc/Subject1/Questions/Important for the important ones.

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