Studying for a Test Believe it or not, as important as it is, many students do not know how to study for a test. Well, studying for a test is easy. The first that you must do is take out your notes. Open your notes up to the section that you are supposed to review. Read what you wrote in your notebook. When you are done, close your notebook and see if you remember the ideas that you were studying. Still don't remember? Open your notebook back up a try again. 1. What does the author want to convey to the readers? 2. How does the author present his ideas? 3. What are the signal words used in the text? 4. How do signal words help organizing author's ideas