“Understand the knowledge thoroughly.” Many teachers repeat this pet phrase to their students. Generally speaking, however, most of them never answer the following question: what is considered to be the thorough understanding of knowledge?
Such teachers are like reckless cooks， they give you a bowl of hot chicken soup，but they do not provide a spoon. To solve this problem, this post will explain the standard for the thorough understanding of a knowledge point.
Before our explanation, we need to figure out the purpose of such understanding. Because we can not assess our learning progress without the clear study purpose. The effective learning helps us achieve our goal, while the useless one does not.
If you can not build your question-solving skills from what you have learned, your study is a vain effort.
There is a common scenario: A student claims that he has mastered all the knowledge points, but when solving relevant questions, he keeps making mistakes. From this we can say, his “mastery” is mere an illusion. There is no doubt that he has not completely understand the knowledge points，because he can not apply them in practice.
So in the process of learning, our most critical question should be: to understand the knowledge you have learned now and how it will be presented in VCE exam. Because if you don’t understand how this knowledge will be applied in the future, then your learning process will inevitably be blind and inefficient. You may miss key points and even waste time on uncritical information.
