Re: Revision
How do you revise? What works for you?
My revision tips are as follows:
a) Ensure all notes and points of information are handy, allocate a special study area where no one can disturb you.
b) Create a timetable that plans out your revision scheme as per your exams. Be optimal in the time allocations.
c) Get your course notes and make them into revision notes. To do this you need to employ a few techniques.
- Condense your writing
- Use symbols and diagrams to remember concepts
d) Revise
- Use you mind like a hard drive and put a folder structure in it to memorise key values of topics and 'save' them in those folders.
e) Undertake pass paper exams
f) Create your own questions:
- For calculative questions tweek the numbers
- For discursive questions think about the possible ways and links certain concepts have with other topics that you have learned, think of all of the ways that a topic can be introduced.
g) Only revise in chunks of 45 minute durations to maximise attention
h) Tell your friends you parents and anyone else about your timetable and pin it to a visible area. So they can help motivate you too.
i) Make jingles and songs for lists of things to remember
j) Get others to ask you verbal questions from a revision book
k) Read Duroods
l) Get a dictaphone and read out your notes to yourself then play it back to yourself and listen to see if it makes sense. If it does not make sense that chances are you will not remember the notes, or make tangible reference to the knowledge area.
m) Ensure at least 8 hours of no revision time before all exams.
n) Take water with you in an exam, but don't drink too much or you will need to go.