How to Revise
- Home
- How to revise
Revision: where to start
From motivation to success: how to revise
Check...
Check you have everything you need and that you have caught up any missed lessons.
Evaluate
Evaluate your current knowledge: colour code the revision list with how confident you feel.
Reflect
Reflect on previous assessments and identify any areas where you missed marks.
Summarise
Summarise each topic into a manageable amount of information. You will have more than you need in your exercise book and revision guide.
Learn
Learn the key vocabulary and command words. You won't be able to answer the question if you don't know these. Learn the content: check out the revision videos for more!
Spaced Retrieval
Find opportunities for spaced retrieval… when will you retest yourself on this? Check out the informatino below about the forgetting curve.
Replicate
Replicate the exam by engaging with past papers. Think about your exam tactics, timing and what the examiner is looking for.
Be Proud
You have worked hard and every lesson you have attended so far has built your understanding of the topics.
Revision Timetables
With lots of subjects to study and extra curricular activities to balance, it’s important to plan ahead for how best you can fit revision into your life.
How to plan ahead
Click this link for a guide on how best to create a revision timetable by Mrs Brown.
Sample timetables
Click here to see how you could integrate revision into your school week.
Sample timetables
Click here for more examples of how to manage your time effectively for revision.
Understand your mind
Master the forgetting curve
Learn
At the point of learning, you are more likely to commit knowledge to memory if you pay attention to it, rehearse it, and practice using it.
This is why you do practice questions in class. Check you understand the content at this point!
Retrieve
Spaced retrieval means to keep rehearsing knowledge at regular intervals. This beats the forgetting curve.
Rather than revising Chemistry for two hours on a Friday, you could break this into 30 minute chunks every other day.
Cognitive Science
Use the diagram to understand how learning and retrieval works. You can then apply these principles to your revision process.
Pay Attention.
We must pay attention to content.
This transfers information from the environment to working memory.
Working Memory
Information from the working memory will be transferred to the long term memory if we rehearse it.
Long Term Memory
We can then recall information from the long term memory and bring it back into working memory. The more often this process happens, the stronger the memory.
Spaced Retrieval
Here's how and why you can use spaced retrieval for your revision
Habits of
highly effective students....
