Revision Launch 2019

1. Revision Launch2019

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. NAME your folder and put the dividers in

5. 2. Put your plastic wallets into the file and fill one with stationery and the other with your Revision Planner and Exam Timetable

6. Your Exam Timetable! 3. Make sure these four documents are in your folder IN FRONT OF your dividers

7. 4. Label your dividers ‘English’, ‘Maths’, and ‘Science’ then correctly file the revision material coming to you

8. 5. Using your examination timetable, highlight the exams you will be sitting in your revision planner

9. The Revision Planner

10. In what order should I revise? Monday 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. Tuesday

12. Not 7 days, but 21 revision sessions

13. 12 weeks before May 13th = 252 revision slots

14. 24 exams on average in 252 sessions = Approx. 10 revision sessions per paper

15. However not all papers require The same amount of revision

17. Why is this a rubbish revision plan?

18. 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?)

20. Common Revision Mistakes

21. Mistake 1: Leaving only 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: Not knowing 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: Not prioritising properlyNow 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: Not planning your tasks30 minutes is a waste of time if it isn’t planned. What do you want to achieve in this vital revision slot?

25. Mistake 5: Not startingThe 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 Revision Activities

28. Research has proven that 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 study also 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 (or Revision 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 what you don’t know

34. 3. Quickly create flashcards What is a tissue? A group of cells with a similar structure and function

35. 4. Quiz yourself What is a tissue? A group of cells with a similar structure and function

36. 5. (Optional) Put into 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 your half term’s revision • How many revision sessions? • Which days? • What are you studying? • How will you study it?