[wirthjason]

All knowledge, by definition, had to be first learned by someone. That person didn’t have an exams or someone testing their knowledge.

As a child I looked to exams and grades to validate my knowledge. However I got A’s on exams and felt like I still knew nothing. As I got older I care less about external validation and more about my internal “self grader”.

A few ways you can test yourself is building something. Take your knowledge and apply it.

Or try to teach someone. If you can’t explain the concepts clearly then maybe you don’t understand it as well as you think you do.

Or pretend your the teacher, write your own exams and take them. Ask yourself, “what questions would I ask students to tell if they know something?”

Lastly, and this one I like the least, find some tests or exams online, books that have questions at the end, etc.