Is it normal to forget almost everything after you're done with exams?

Obviously you learn everything really well for exams and then start to forget it once they're over, but how much information do you usually retain by the Summer holidays?

Personally I remember very little (and thankfully most of the content never comes up again anyway so it's fine).

Is it normal? Yup
Do i wish i could remeber everything i'd learnt? Yup
However i usually do the 'cramming' last minute revision which means the info is usually only stored in short term memory sooo u forget it pretty quickly. Revising and going over things months in advance would mean you stored more info, but i always leave it too late 🙈

Story. Of. My. Life.

Do you mind me asking what you study and which year you're in?

LOL IKR? Every year i say 'this time its going to be differnt' .... Never is 😔

I dont mind im studying pharmacy, going to be strting my 3rd year in a couple weeks

Oh! Nice! I have a friend studying pharmacy - apparently its very lab and chemistry based as opposed to biology?

Cool 😊 what do u study?
Yhh not much bio but heaps of chem and maths lol
Lets not even talk about labs 😁

What's an exam even?

ye I hardly remember anything from Alevel and GCSE. I just remember fundamental common sense stuff that has practical use mostly. (so not a lot).

Especially painful for someone who doesn't understand maths naturally.

What's an exam even?

Ooh cool 😊 ive got freinds studying that haha
Im kind of nervous about not rembering all the stuff ive been learning. Shouldn't i remember it all?😁.
GOD the maths 😩😩 SO didnt sign up for it lol but hey ho. That reminds me, i need to strt revising my pharmaceutical calculations
Have to gt min 70% in maths this yr or im doomed! (ie u dont pass) 😭

yeah I think we're kind of forced into this pattern; we have to learn how to take one exam in exactly the way the examiners want then as soon as it's over we have to do the same thing for another one and another and Another. It's like we fill our heads with one set of specific information, then purge when we no longer 'need' it

Lol, I think that's the issue with my degree. It's all content, that has few links the the rest of the course content, so I just forget it all immediately...



I hate maths. Genuinely thought I would never study it again after A levels, but apparently not



The only reason students care about what they're taught

Idk, in the real world everything is available on the internet at the click of a button...so hopefully not?

And woah! Isn't 70% really high for university? I thought 40 was the usual pass mark?

I don't how anyone would find Maths fun.

Oooh yh truee, and i'll be able to use a calculator! Yay!

It 40% for all the other exams but not maths ������. this yrs wasnt too bad but its only going to gt harder ������.

My information storage in my brain is at an all time high during exam period, then in the summer I forget everything, and find it hard to get back into the work routine

So yeah you're not the only one

I think I'd enjoy it a lot more if I didn't suck at it, but yeah



Do you not get calculators in this exam? :O



Yeah, I always wonder whether it's worth revising over Summer. It never happens anyway, but I think I'd feel like I'd wasted my holiday if I did