How can I revise???

Your revision guides from PSE – USE THEM

Making it stickUsing mind mapsTen top tips

Start early– don’t leave it for a rainy day

Remove all distractions

Get someone to motivate you

Think of how satisfied you will feel in August

Start by doing a little – try revising in short chunks this weekend

Week beginning: Monday 24th October

Day Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4

Monday School Homework Homework Homework

Tuesday School  Maths Maths Welsh/History/Geography/Music/Eng Lit (Organise!!!)

Wednesday School  Top up Maths Sci/Tech/RS/PE/ (Organise!!!!)

Thursday School  Top up Maths French/Business/ICT/Music/Art/

Friday  School Top up Continue to organise work

Saturday  Free Free   

Sunday Review week  Review week Planning Plannning

Revision tools - Tricks of the trade

A3 plain paperHighlighter pensPost-it notes or cardsMarker pens; glue sticks,

scissorsColoured pens and paperFiles and folders, filing

box for organisingTimer (egg timer, alarm

clock etc)Revision timetableA quiet work space

A Visual Learner? – using your eyesYou are good at

remembering things visually – you remember a picture of what you see when you read the page

Try notes or equations on bits of paper – colour them in – add curly bits, trees, animals, anything that makes it stick

Look over notes once a day – remember pictures. In the exam you will ‘see’ the paper and remember

Use mind maps or spider diagrams

Or an auditory learner? – using your earsYou are good at

remembering soundsMusic can help you Say things out loud to

help you rememberUse songs, rhyme to

help you rememberX = ??

Or a kinaesthetic learner? – doing this to learnYour mind works best

when your body is active – you are doing things

Do write things out as you revise – make notes, highlight, create jigsaws, cut and paste

Moving around and actively doing things as you work will help you remember

My advice

Do all three and see which works for you

Anything which makes it stick is worth doing

Get yourself motivated

Repetition, Repetition, Repetition

If you revise something tonight, by tomorrow you will have forgotten some of it

So take a quick look to ‘top up’ your memory

Do this again in a week’s time, and keep ‘topping up’ until the night before the exam

THIS IS NOT TIME CONSUMING

It is satisfying and comforting because you find stuff looks more familiar each time you look at it

Look, Cover, Write, Check

A familiar spelling technique

Read it – hide it away – write it out – check to see if you got it right

Useful for spellings, diagrams, equations, lists of facts, dates etc

Highlighting

Go through your books and files and notes highlighting key words and ideas

This makes revision easier because the act of ‘scanning’ aids revision.

Do this with all hand-outs you are allowed to keep!

Personalise your handouts using highlighters and simple drawings – that way it will be yours in your memory

Use flash cards

My favourite revision tool – helps to summarise

These can help you remember quotations, facts and equations

Put main ideas on one side and all the main details you need on the other

Look at them whenever you have a spare moment (lunchtimes, break times, registration, on the bus etc)

Question and Answer technique

Dull facts on one side:

1. Extracting metal from an oxide needs a reaction

2. Metals higher than carbon in the reactivity series need ‘electrolysis’

3. Metals lower than carbon can be extracted using carbon, because carbon can remove oxygen from metals which are less reactive

4. Order. K, Na, Ca, Mg, Al, C, Zn, Fe, Sn, Pb

Questions on the other side

1. What needs to happen to extract metals from oxides?

2. What is used to extract metals higher in the r-series than carbon

3. What is used to extract metals lower than carbon?

4. What is the order of the reactivity series?

Make jigsaws

List things on a sheet of paper, cut the paper out then sort it – e.g. plots in your English set texts; key quotations; processes in science and geography

Useful to put things in order

Use post-it notesMaking and using helps

you to remember

Identify your strong and weak areas

Go through your books. Put green blobs beside stuff you’re happy about.

Put red blobs besides bits you’re not sure of or find more difficult

Work on the red bits and ask your teacher about them.

You can also do this by highlighting parts

Work with someone else

Some say that two is better than one

‘The best way to learn is to teach’

If you can explain things to somebody else then you know you have got it straight yourself

Ten Top Tips

1. Start now – 3-6 weeks2. Use your revision plan3. Organise yourself, your

notes and your books4. Find the best place to revise

– comfy, well-lit, quiet. Keep all materials – pens, books, paper, guides within easy reach

5. Choose the revision methods that suit you – try things out

6. Take regular breaks7. Keep healthy – make sure

you eat well and get enough sleep. Exercise regularly; you’ll feel refreshed

8. Set yourself achievable targets and reward yourself when you reach them

9. Try past papers – questions; key words; layout of paper, timing etc

10. Ask for help if you need it