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Revision launch 2019
The document provides guidance on effective revision techniques for exam preparation. It recommends organizing revision materials in a lever arch folder with dividers and stationery. Key points include interleaving different subjects, prioritizing weaker topics, and self-testing with flashcards, quizzes and creating timelines from memory as proven methods of effective revision over passive re-reading. The document warns against common mistakes like leaving revision to the last minute or not knowing exam paper content and format.
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- 3. On your table… •Yellow lever arch file • Dividers • Plastic wallet for: Highlighters Flashcards Post-its • Personal examination timetable • Revision planner • Examination information booklet • Core revision materials • How to revise effectively guide
- 4. 1. NAME yourfolder and put the dividers in
- 5. 2. Put yourplastic wallets into the file and fill one with stationery and the other with your Revision Planner and Exam Timetable
- 6. Your Exam Timetable! 3. Makesure these four documents are in your folder IN FRONT OF your dividers
- 7. 4. Label yourdividers ‘English’, ‘Maths’, and ‘Science’ then correctly file the revision material coming to you
- 8. 5. Using yourexamination timetable, highlight the exams you will be sitting in your revision planner
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- 10. History Chemistry EnglishHistory In what order should I revise? English ICT French ICT Monday Tuesday Your memory works best when it is forced to mix up different subject. This is called interleaving. You need to get organised to do it, and it can feel a bit annoying, but it works far better than simply working on one subject all day or night.
- 11. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAYTHURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 March 24 March 25 March
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- 17. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAYTHURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 March 24 March 25 March English History English DT PE DT English DT History Maths DT Maths English Maths FPN Maths FPN History History FPN PE
- 18. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAYTHURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 March 24 March 25 March English History English DT PE DT English DT History Maths DT Maths English Maths FPN Maths FPN History History FPN PE • Just naming the subject is too vague • Not all subjects included (science?!) • Doubling up subjects without a clear plan • Random allocation of subjects • Unrealistic time allocation (When will your ride your bike? Go camping? Go to the cinema?)
- 19. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAYTHURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 19 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 March 24 March 25 March English Lit Paper 1 Create flashcards for 7 key quotations for the Macbeths: Test History Paper 2 From memory, make a timeline of epidemics 1250- 2019. Use revision guide to complete. Then self-test. English Language Paper 1, Q.3 Read model answer, answer practice question, assess with mark scheme – bring to teacher
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- 21. Mistake 1: Leavingonly a weekend, or a half-term, to revise a subject. Know when your exams are so you can make sure you get your sessions in before the exam. Your English Language exams are after half term, but if you leave your revision for them until the holiday you won’t be able to get any help if you get stuck.
- 22. Mistake 2: Notknowing what is on each paper! Your first physics exam is 23rd May. The next one is 15th of June… three weeks later. Make sure you are revising the right material.
- 23. Mistake 3: Notprioritising properly Now you know you need to revise p.1 physics, and you have to get your revision sessions in before the exam, what should you do first? Test yourself and identify where you aren’t strong. It might take your teacher 5 minutes to help you understand now – you might not have that time if you leave it too late.
- 24. Mistake 4: Notplanning your tasks 30 minutes is a waste of time if it isn’t planned. What do you want to achieve in this vital revision slot? MONDAY 19 March English Literature P1 • Macbeth > themes • Mind map for each theme • Revision guide/book to complete • Write 3 key quotes for each theme • Self-test History P1 • Elizabethans > daily life > houses of the rich and poor • Revision grid from memory • Use knowledge organiser to check, correct and add detail in a different colour • Self test PE P1
- 25. Mistake 5: Notstarting The effort of revision is worth it. When you aren’t working you probably don’t feel great anyway. You can do it.
- 27. Actually Effective RevisionActivities
- 28. Research has proventhat testing helps you learn and remember! In this study, we can see that those who used testing interleaved with studying remembered more and could recall it quicker.
- 29. Furthermore, this studyalso shows that just studying with no testing is the LEAST EFFECTIVE form of revision.
- 30. Testing helps because: -Having to work hard to recall information from memory helps make it stick in your memory. - It gives you a clear idea of what you don’t know. This means you know exactly what you should focus on in your revision. A curious peculiarity of our memory is that things are impressed better by active than by passive repetition. I mean that in learning (by heart, for example), when we almost know the piece, it pays better to wait and recollect by an effort from within, than to look at the book again. If we recover the words in the former way, we shall probably know them the next time; if in the latter way, we shall very likely need the book once more. - William James, Principles of Psychology
- 31. Knowledge Organisers (orRevision Guides…) That’s a lot of information. Where do I start?!
- 32. 1. Quiz yourself(or get someone else to quiz you)
- 33. 2. Highlight whatyou don’t know
- 34. 3. Quickly createflashcards What is a tissue? A group of cells with a similar structure and function
- 35. 4. Quiz yourself Whatis a tissue? A group of cells with a similar structure and function
- 36. 5. (Optional) Putinto piles What is a tissue? A group of cells with a similar structure and function
- 37. Ways of self-testing •Any activity where you are first relying on memory rather than books or notes. - Produce a mind-map from memory. Then use your book/notes to make corrections and fill in any gaps. Then turn it over, and start again from scratch and from memory. - Complete quizzes. These could be written by you, your peers, your teachers or on Quizlet and Socrative. Make sure you keep a record of what you don’t know so that you can relearn it! - When you interleave, start your next session with a re-cap of what you learned in the first session.
- 40. 6. Plan yourhalf term’s revision •How many revision sessions? •Which days? •What are you studying? •How will you study it?