REVISION TIPS EXAM TIPS - Brainwaves Education

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These pages are for noting useful web

addresses for revision and to add your own

revision and exam tips.

Read this booklet and act on it.

It is divided into 2 sections:-

REVISION TIPS

and

EXAM TIPS

It will only work if YOU do!

DISCOVER HOW YOU LEARN BEST

VISUALLY

ORALLY

AURALLY

KINAESTHETICALLY

(By doing it!)

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If you think you are beaten you are.

If you think you dare not, you don’t.

If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,

it's almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you've lost,

For out of the world we find

Success begins with a fellow's will-

it's all in the state of mind.

If you think you're outclassed, you are.

You've got to think high to rise.

You've got to be sure of yourself before

you can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go

To the stronger or faster man.

But sooner or later the man who wins

is the one who thinks he can.

Anon

REMEMBER YOUR TRIUNE BRAIN

Respect the three layers:

Your old brain (needs food and drink,

Your emotional brain (needs to feel

safe and secure)

Your thinking brain (needs to have

the other 2 brains satisfied in

order to work at its best.)

Work hard…

Play hard…

Don’t panic…..

Eat and rest well.

GOOD LUCK!

The sky’s the limit.

PLANNING

• Ask each of your teachers for a list of

the revision topics. (By GCSE you should

have a copy of the syllabus for revision.)

• Ask how long each exam will be.

• Divide your time up equally between the

subjects. Don’t over revise favourite

subjects at the expense of less favoured ones. (As you move towards

GCSE you may start to prioritise these.)

• Divide the time up equally between the

topics within each subject.

• Once you have completed this devise a

timetable, include your breaks, leisure

and other commitments.

• Once you have devised the timetable

STICK TO IT like glue

REVISION MUST BE

ACTIVE

NOT PASSIVE

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• MANAGE your time, so that you

answer all of the questions.

• It is no use answering one question

brilliantly and not having time to

answer all of the questions.

• It is YOUR exam paper, USE your

highlighter pens.

• Make sure that you ANSWER the

question. Only write what is

RELEVANT, not EVERYTHING you

know. The exam will often be checking

that you can SELECT from your

fountain of knowledge. (Yes it is a pain

when you have revised something you

do not get asked- this will happen, get

used to it.)

• Keep checking the time and that you

are still answering the question.

On the day of the exam:-

• DO have breakfast.

• Don’t argue or get upset with friends

or family.

• Do check that you have all of your

equipment. (Take in a ruler with both

cm and inches for conversion in maths

exams, use the calculator you are

familiar with.)

Once you are in the exam:-

• Try to relax, your memory will work

better.

• Read and follow the instructions, use

highlighter pens for key words.

ACTIVE REVISION INCLUDES

• Reducing notes to key-words.

• Making mnemonics to help remember

difficult lists, words or formulas.

• Colour coding your notes.

• Highlighting important points.

• Converting linear notes to Mind Maps.

• Re-drawing mind maps from memory.

• Recording key facts and listening back,

use time spent traveling to and from

school on your mp3 player.

• Watching television for background

information.

• Pretending to be the examiner and

writing possible questions.

• Turning notes into diagrams and pictures.

• Trying out new memory techniques you

have learned.

• When you are revising, if you discover

that you don’t understand something

DON’T SKIP IT!!! Ask a TEACHER or a

FRIEND to explain it to you.

• TAKE lots of breaks when revising. You

can only concentrate in 20 minute blocks.

Constantly review your learning to help

you remember.

• REMIND the adults in the house that

THIS IS A STUDY BREAK ! (Not a

please take the dog for a walk, or empty

the dish washer break.)

• For a change revise with a friend.

• Pretend to be the examiner, set some

questions for yourself.

• Look at past questions in tests and

exercises in maths text books.

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SOME USEFUL STUDY AIDS

• Highlighter pens

• Different coloured ‘Post It’ Notes

• Coloured felt tip pens

• A3 paper or wall paper for Mind Mapping

• MP3 player

• Catalogue cards or post cards for key

words

• www.bbc.co.uk/education/revisewise

• www.s-cool.co.uk

• Doodle pad, for the ‘right brainers’

• Chewing gum, for the ‘right

brainers’Spare funds and patience with

the telephone bill, for the ‘left brainers

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