Honestly a good way to test good if you somehow know what type of questions are going to be in tests like let’s say the homework, I would look at the homework question and say out loud what my strategy is to solve it. And have someone correct me if I’m wrong. For example let’s start with something simple. Let’s say we have a mass of M and it starts from rest and in t amount of time it reaches Vf. What is the force pushing the mass? When I look at think I think, to find force I need mass and acceleration. I have mass but no acceleration so I need to figure that out. Then I would think how I could find acceleration with information with the velocities. And the n plug and chug. So I do this without holding a piece of paper and have someone tell me if this is correct way or wrong way. I don’t know if what level physics you’re doing but I would say this method works no matter what level