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Revision

It’s not rocket science!

What’s already there?

School website – Parents & students

Top tips

Exam timetable

Revision – it’s not rocket science!

Main messages

Plan

Active revision

Repeat and review



Plan

Use a calendar

Mark in the exams

Decide how much time to give to

each subject

Work backwards Fail to plan?Plan to fail.


Spread it out

How much time, and on which days?

On a school day, an average of an

hour and a half to two hours should

do


Take control

TV – use catch-up and/or PVR

Turn off your phone

The games console…

And if you can’t take control, ask

someone else!

Parents


A place to study

A desk/table/worktop

Without distraction – quiet

Different to where you relax?


Keeping it real

Active revision

Exams

State/Describe - recall

Explain - understand

In silence

Revision that…

Supports recall

Practises explaining

Is in silence…sometimes!Revision – it’s not rocket science!


Mental muscle

Use it or lose it!


Be strong

Be strong – turn off your mobile and

shutdown social media.

Reward yourself after a session's

work by turning these things back on

Active RevisionTechniques to try



read, cover, write, check

read your notes or revision guide for 5 or

10 minutes

cover (close the book) the information

write down what you remember

check what you've written

repeat this until you can write down

exactly what you are trying to learn


Questions

Write a list of questions you must

know the answer to

Get someone else to test you

Revision guides often have a set at

the end of each section


Memorise

Make up rhymes or phrases likeRichard Of York Gave Battle In Vain

Mental pictures helpWater is neutral and it’s blue – the colour of

the neutral wire in the plug


Re-decorate

Stick up important information

around the house, especially in

places you sit and stare at things

Around your study area

Where you eat

Back of the toilet door


Revision cards

buy some blank index cards from a stationery shop

on one side of the card write the topic

on the other side write the facts you are trying to learn – no more than 5!

shuffle the cards and then work through them one at a time – look at the topic and see if you can remember the facts on the back

Glossaries

Subject specific words

Learn them

Use them


Mindmaps

Good for complex

topics

Do it properly

thinkbuzan.com

Better done

AFTER a topic

has been learnt

and reviewed



Explaining

Give a talk to someone else about

what you have been studying e.g.

A parent

A friend

The cat?


Summarise

Write out notes

Summarise these on more paper

Summarise these again

Highlight the key words


The internet

www.bbc.co.uk/schools

www.mymaths.com (all South

students have the password for this)

www.kerboodle.com for any of the

sciences (individual logins for

students)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools

http://www.mymaths.com/

http://www.kerboodle.com/


Keep it bite-sized

Do 25 - 50 min work on a subject,

give yourself a little break, and then

do another session on a different

area in that subject.


Refresh and Repeat

Neurological evidence shows that

repeating a memory makes it

stronger

Before you stop a session, go over

everything you’ve done

At the start of a session, review what

you did on it last time


Refresh and Repeat

Practice re-call until you are perfect Online quizzes

Revision cards

Test questions


Work with a friend

Sometimes, to break up the

monotony

But in exams…

Past papers

Available online

Check the exam board and specification code

Used by revision packages and by teachers

Wait until study leave starts?

Use the mark scheme harshly


Summary

Do it

Yes, it is not fun

Plan

Make it active

Repeat

Reward



Mental muscle

Use it or lose it!

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