So I'm in the middle of an almost 2 year long period between finishing my first degree and commencing a postgraduate degree. I'm working a lab job but it's repetitive and doesn't require much brain power.
The other day I looked at an entrance exam for graduate students hoping to get into medicine that examined knowledge of the life and physical sciences. Basically it was testing knowledge of highschool/first year university chemistry, physics and biology knowledge tied into some pretty tricky questions.
They were all questions I could've dealt with easily a few years ago, but I was really struggling as my work and study in the last couple of years hadn't required this kind of problem solving.
On top of that, I've been noticing that my capacity for maths, in particular mental arithmetic and interpreting statistics/graphs is also far from what it used to be a couple of years ago.
I'm wondering if any of you fellow scientists have suffered the same problems in the past and if there's any advice you can give for getting my brain back into shape?