Revision Techniques
Hello
all! Welcome back to exams month, and to this week of revision-themed posts.
Today
and tomorrow, I’m going to be talking about different ways of revising for your
exams. It is important to remember that there are many different techniques out
there and it is a good idea to try out different ones to find the right method
which really works for you.
STICKY
NOTES
Post-it
notes are really useful when it comes to revision for so many reasons. You can
use them to set yourself a reminder of what you need to get done, you can use
them as bookmarks so that you can easily re-find something you read before, or you
can even use them as jotting paper if you need to make calculations. However,
by far the most useful thing you can do with them is to write facts or snippets
of information on them, which you can then stick up everywhere around your bedroom
or house, in places where you will notice them. Walking past them and reading the
information every day during your routine is a very effective method of learning
what you need to know, without really knowing that you are doing it.
FLASHCARDS
Although
these are less for revision and more for oral presentations, I highly recommend
their use as a way of breaking down large amounts of information into more
manageable chunks. Having things split up in this way makes it easier to learn
because it makes the information seem a lot less than it is.
SPIDER
DIAGRAMS
Until
my GCSEs, I had an absolute hatred for spider diagrams (or brainstorms as some
people call them) because I couldn’t work with them, and they were too messy
for my liking. However, I discovered how great they can be at organising a lot
of information and breaking it down into categories, particularly when you have
so much information to revisit.
In
fact, I now use them not only for revision and essay planning, but also for
planning out my blogposts, because they help me get things in order and
formulate a clearer idea of what each post is going to be about.
Those
are all of the techniques I’m going to talking about today, BUT I am going to
be doing a part two tomorrow as part of this week on revision, so be sure to
follow me on any of the social media links below to keep up to date with when
that post goes up. Also, I would like to hear your thoughts on any of the
methods above in the comments.
Until
tomorrow, keep working, keep smiling, and above all else, keep believing!
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