Post holiday tests

So whenever we are back to school from the holidays, no matter how long the break is, we may be given post holiday tests. ( okay well, most of the time.. ) 

I know that post holiday tests are meant for you to revise and not to make you forgot on your chapters and its contents. So, i'm not against this.

But the type of post holiday test that I am talking about are the tests that are testing you on last years' content. In my school, this type of tests are usually maths tests. For some reason it's always Mathematics, i don't know why... 

Seriously, it's really tedious to revise last year's contents again, why don't we just start on the new topics and somehow recall last year's contents overtime? If you have studied hard the previous year, the things you have learnt will be in your long-term memory and you will easily recall them. Well, if you fucked up the previous year well that's your own lost.

To be honest I never studied for this type of post holiday test, I just take the test and see how much I can remember from last year's teachings. So i treat them as more of a " test " rather than a test that i have to prepare. 

Being a spontaneous type of person, i do love surprises and to me if everything in life is predictable, life is boring as shit. So i actually want to see how much i can remember even though i haven't touched my books for like... 2 months. 

But of course, i won't do this for my major exams, that's stupidity rather than " testing " yourself.