SUPPORTING EXAMINATION SUCCESS

2. Active Revision Learning Styles and Methods Understanding, Memory and Time Planning a Revision Timetable Student Examination Advice Parent Advice SUPPORTING EXAMINATION SUCCESS

3. Active Revision Encourage your child to ACTIVELY revise rather than PASSIVELY revise Students often mistake reading through notes or websites as revision – it is not.

4. Active revision Where possible - help provide the right resources for your child to revise actively:

5. Active Revision

6. LEARNING STYLES AND METHODS

7. Recopy notes – then condense in particular colours • Visually organise or reorganise notes using columns, categories, outline forms, etc. • Remember where information was located in visual field • Create timelines, models, charts, grids, etc. • Write/rewrite facts, formulas, notes on wall-hanging, bedsheet, poster for visual review at any time • Facts, formulas, notes on index cards arranged/rearranged on wall, pin-board, floor, bed VISUAL LEARNERS

8. Use colour-coded markers or cards for previous two above • Use visual mnemonics • Remember information by drawing out mindmaps • TV/video supplements important for understanding or remembering • Use "background" visual activity helps you to concentrate • Use highlighters • Near memorisation of chapter/notes VISUAL LEARNERS

9. Discuss concepts/facts/aspects with friend immediately after new learning • Revise with friend(s) by trying to teach them the information • Tape records lesson or notes for re-listening later • Say facts/formulas/information over and over to retain • Simultaneous talk and walk whilst studying • Set information to rhyme, rhythm, music, football chants, to aid retention AUDITORY LEARNERS

10. Aural Mnemonics • Remember where information was located in auditory field (e.g. tagged to "who said that?") • Use of different voices to study (like creating a script, or acting out a play) • TV/video/radio supplements useful for obtaining information • Create your own podcast and listen without taking notes • Prefer group discussion and/or study groups AUDITORY LEARNERS

11. Copy notes over and over to make them neat or organised • Prefers to take notes during lesson as an aid to concentration • Must take notes, even when detailed outline is distributed • Simultaneous talking-walking, talking-exercising study, or walking-reading study • Move hands or feet for rhythm emphasis while remembering information KINAESTHETIC STYLE

12. Trace key words with finger, marker, hand • Re-enact situations while studying • Act out information in the form of play (using different characters for different topics) • Constructs (e.g. house of cards, blocks, etc.) to remember information • Plan a revision game on the computer/board game KINAESTHETIC LEARNING

13. Ensure you practise on Past Papers Get hold of the exam board mark schemes and examiners reports Use grade boundaries to check your progress Don’t just revise topics you are confident in Use your teacher as much as possible FOR ALL LEARNING STYLES

14. Understanding, Memory and Time

15. Understanding, Memory and Time

16. Understanding, Memory and Time

17. Understanding, Memory and Time

18. Understanding, Memory and Time

19. REVISION TIMETABLE

20. REVISION TIMETABLE

21. STUDENT ADVICE

22. PARENT ADVICE

23. SUPPORTING EXAMINATION SUCCESS