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Revision is to actively look back over your work on an ongoing basis to:• Remind you of learning you might have forgotten (knowledge,
skills, ideas, understanding)• Make links to other learning so you have the bigger picture• To reinforce your learning – so it stays remembered• To show what you don’t know – so you can close the gaps• Check that you have understood everything
I’ve read all of my notes but I can’t
remember any of it…!
What is revision?
Start revision early. The sooner you start the less you will have to do each day and the less stressed out you will be.
The most important thing is to make a realistic revision timetable that you will stick to.
Get one good revision book or aid for every subject. They do much of the initial work for you by breaking the subject down into ‘do‐able’ chunks
Preparing to RevisePreparing to revise
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Happy Brains!Keep your brain happy
66% material is forgotten after 7 days88% material is forgotten after 6 weeks
Reading notes and text books leads to a mere 10% retention
After a one hour memorising session:
10 minutes later revise the topic for 10 minutes1 day later revise the topic for 5 minutes1 week later revise the topic for 2‐5 minutes1 month later revise the topic for 2‐5 minutesBefore exams revise the topic as required.Each time knowledge is reinforced; it enters deeper into the long‐term memory and becomes more stable and easier to recall.
Practice and Rehearsal
Make yourself a timetable
REV I S ION P LANNERS
Day SessionA
SessionB
Session C
Session D
SessionE Rewards
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
https://revisionworld.com/create‐revision‐timetable
We learn:
• 10% of what we read• 20% of what we hear • 30% of what we see • 40% of what we see and hear• 70% of what is discussed • 95% of what we teach to someone else
This means that the best method of learning is having to explain or teach a topic to someone else.
Questioning and Teaching
Revision Strategies
• Use post its and stick on the wall • Summarise notes • Highlight or circle important information • Use a traffic light system to indicate progress in learning and action points
• Draw diagrams, pictures, mind maps, collage • Keywords displayed around the room
VisualRevision Strategies
• Make up mnemonics, rhymes • Create a podcast and listen • Test yourself or friends • Be the teacher – teach someone else something you’re revising
• Raps, rhyme, chants and verse, dramatic readings • Music for energising, relaxing visualising and reviewing.
AuditoryRevision Strategies
• Make your own PowerPoint • Create your own revision cards • Act topics out! • Play a revision game on BBC Bitesize • Design and build activities • Gestures or movements to demonstrate a concept
Kinaesthetic Revision Strategies
Study CardsRevision Strategies – Study Cards
MnemonicsRevision Strategies ‐ Mnemonics
Thinking MapsRevision Strategies – Thinking Maps
Revision Strategies – Mind Maps
Good notes are invaluable and they act as: • A form of ‘external’ memory, a kind of extension to the memory capacity of your mind – enabling you to have ready access to a far wider range of knowledge. • A symbol of progress: notes provide you with evidence of the work
you have done and so make an important contribution to your morale.
• A means of pulling the course together.
Making notes on notes is an effective form of revision. The action of noting concentrates the mind in revision, and allows to further order ideas and sharpen understanding.
SQ3RSurvey – look over at main headings, pictures, diagrams, highlight key words or subject – specific terminology
Questions – ask questions, create a purpose. Turn headings into questions that you will need to answer
Read – answer the questions you’ve set yourself
Recite/Recall – talk out loud, make notes and say key points and answers out loud
Review – add extra notes, highlight, amend notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r9LtJ4B22chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dhcSP_Myjg
Visual notes
1.Turn your written notes into a series of visual images and sketches (no artistry involved!)
2.Then, using your visual notes, explain the concept, new knowledge, idea to a partner.
3.Return to your visual notes after a couple of days, can you now turn them back into written notes?
http://sixthformstudyskills.ncl.ac.uk/academic‐writing/notetaking/
Reading Strategies ‐ CRAPSAC
Change it…Rewrite the text, article, extract for a different audience or in a different format –eg a newspaper report, opinion article, speech, information guide etc
Reduce it…Summarise the text into 50 words5‐5‐1Reduce to a visual representation (symbols and images)
Apply it …Take the information and apply it in a different context – eg create a quiz, plan an exam question on the topic, link it to another topic
Prioritise it …Diamond 9 – justify choicesTop 3 significant details or key words etc
Search for it…Highlight key wordsIdentify topics sentencesRecognise implied meanings and connotations
Act it out…Create a voice over for your topicAct it out !
Connect it…Create a mind map, rewrite as a flow map, link topic to wider knowledge of subject, link to exam requirements
Command terms
Command terms
Red Black Pen Revision The idea is that the two colours work on the two
halves of the brain.
The black pen signifies the information that you already
hold in
your conscious memory.
The red pen signifies those things in your unconscious
memory
that you wish to transfer into your conscious memory.
The red pen strongly signifies danger and is held by your
unconscious memory without realising it.
Divide a topic into 12 sections.Use a black pen to completeeach section of the revisionclock in as much detail as youcan.Use your notes to go backaround the clock and add anyextra detail in red pen.
Revision Clock
A292 Business
Recruitment Selection
Training Staff Appraisal
Employment Law Trade‐Unions
Financial motivation methods
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A292 Business
Recruitment Selection
Training Staff Appraisal
Employment Law Trade‐Unions
Financial motivation methods
Working
from
hom
e Te
chno
logy
Communication
www.topmarks.co.uka gateway to revision sites for every subject
http://revisioncentre.co.uk/parents/helping_with_school_work.htmllots of advice about revision
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesizeA large number of GCSE subjects covered with topic overviews and mini tests
https://getrevising.co.uk/plannerhttps://revisionworld.com/create‐revision‐timetableFree websites (need an email address to create an account) to create a personalised revision planner and to access revision resources
http://www.s‐cool.co.uk/https://scienceaid.net/Main_Pagehttps://getrevising.co.uk/All these websites help with subjects, topics and content to revise
www.brainscape.com allows you to make flashcards which can then be downloaded onto your phone etc.www.thebrain.com allows you to create mind maps to help you to connect ideas and thoughts together
www.revisionworld.co.ukwww.s‐cool.co.uk/gcse
Useful WebsitesUseful websites
• Ask a few more questions• Write a bit more detail• Spend a few more minutes on your homework• Spend a few less minutes watching TV• Go to bed a bit earlier• Eat a bit healthier• Turn up to a revision session (or two)• Chat a bit less• Revise a bit more• Practise a few more exam questions• Concentrate a bit more
You don’t have to change much to make a BIG difference…