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Revision
It’s not rocket science!
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What’s already there?
School website – Parents & students
Top tips
Exam timetable
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Main messages
Plan
Active revision
Repeat and review
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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.
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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!
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Parents
Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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A place to study
A desk/table/worktop
Without distraction – quiet
Different to where you relax?
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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!
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
Mental muscle
Use it or lose it!
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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
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Active RevisionTechniques to try
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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
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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
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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
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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
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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Glossaries
Subject specific words
Learn them
Use them
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Mindmaps
Good for complex
topics
Do it properly
thinkbuzan.com
Better done
AFTER a topic
has been learnt
and reviewed
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
Explaining
Give a talk to someone else about
what you have been studying e.g.
A parent
A friend
The cat?
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
Summarise
Write out notes
Summarise these on more paper
Summarise these again
Highlight the key words
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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)
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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.
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
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
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
Refresh and Repeat
Practice re-call until you are perfect Online quizzes
Revision cards
Test questions
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
Work with a friend
Sometimes, to break up the
monotony
But in exams…
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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
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Summary
Do it
Yes, it is not fun
Plan
Make it active
Repeat
Reward
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Revision – it’s not rocket science!
Mental muscle
Use it or lose it!