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Riveting Revision?

Discover effective revision techniques to help you retain information and ace your exams. This guide covers various methods, including practice testing, distributed practice, and summarizing, among others. Learn how to make the most of your revision time and achieve your academic goals.

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Riveting Revision?

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  1. Riveting Revision? How can you revise effectively?

  2. The Many Faces of Revision…

  3. DO you TEACH revision? Think… Pair…. Share… What is the problem with revision Describe it to the person next to you

  4. Phase 1: Read • Revision workbook • Own notes • Text book refresher • Relevant websites e.g. quizlet Passive revision Whatmost students do? exam Phase 2: possibly make revision notes • Hope knowledge has stuck enough to answer an exam question and be successful • Flashcards • Revision book • Mind maps • Graphic organisers

  5. Phase 4 RAG knowledge Phase 1: Read • Red – no knowledge – learn again – maybe try a different technique • Amber – good factual knowledge but can’t apply to an exam question • Green – can answer exam questions on this topic confidently • Revision workbook • Own notes • Text book refresher • Relevant websites e.g. quizlet now focus on your red topics – be effective and target revision What should students do? Active revision cycle • Exam Practise – short / long answer questions • Quiz yourself (flash cards / quizlet – other online quizzes) • Timed exam practise • Essay plans for longer questions Phase 2: make revision notes – learn content • Gojimo • Quizlet • Cornell notes • Flashcards • Revision book • Mind maps • Graphic organisers • Mnemonics • Post it note revision • Read, cover, write, check Phase 3: test yourself

  6. Scaffolded revision… …When should they do it? Revision SHOULD happen a few months before the exams begin It must be planned for

  7. “ When it comes to retaining information, not all methods are created equal.” ALEX QUIGLEY ‘TOTAL RECALL’ …Variety is the spice of life revision

  8. Outcomes Practice testing Distributed practice (the opposite of cramming – spread revision throughout the course) Interleaved practice (mixing different kinds of material within a study session) Elaborative interrogation (explaining why a fact / concept is correct) Self-explanation (explaining how information is connected) Summarising – but successful when students are shown how to summarise Imagery for text – not applicable to a wide range of subjects Mnemonics – but useful for short-term memory Rereading – although it is the most commonly used Highlighting – can actually harm student performance/ability to make inferences TOP 3 PRACTICES

  9. 10 Revision ideas Key Tip This is where modelling interleaved practice is essential Mindmaps Flashcards Foldables Cornell notes Revision books Post-its / mind maps / posters Past paper practise Exam question planning Graphic organisers RAGging knowledge

  10. Simplemind mind-mapping app – for smart phones and tablets Paid version is better

  11. Flashcards

  12. Make foldables

  13. For students who find it difficult to reduce down key information Cornell notes will help. The principle was developed at Cornell University – one of the most prestigious universities in the USA. It involves dividing up your page (or using a template) which you use to give your notes structure. It forces you to be brief and pick out the key points.

  14. The “Cornell Method”

  15. Revision books – mix it up!

  16. Mind map Papers Write an essay or exam questions on A3/A4 paper. Mind map as much as possible in relation to the question. When finished, the student can use their notes to add more detail (in another colour so they know what to go over)

  17. Post-its and posters Movable revision! Students can stick them around the house Don’t let students put them EVERYWHERE– it may be overwhelming

  18. Past Paper / exam Q practise Longer essay Question in the centre of paper table cloth – 4 corners of the table – each student takes a different paragraph and colour pen and then move around Each student has a different colour pen so you can see who knows what Take a picture – of the cloth – each student can then plan the essay

  19. RAGging For unit topics For subtopics For specific key terms/ key events etc. Auditing knowledge

  20. Useful revision websites / apps: Quizlet Gojimo Get Revising Reviser Flashcards+

  21. Revision Tip Paragraph Summaries

  22. HIGHLIGHTING DOESN’T WORK! It can be a good method for picking out key chunks of information of key words – but how many times have your students sheets looked like this?

  23. Why doesn’t highlighting work? One of the main problems is that it is already a very familiar strategy and using it involves little effort. Most people don’t have a strategy for highlighting. Another reason to ditch the highlighters is that when a revision technique feels too easy, it usually is. Scientists have found that successful revision should involve ‘desirable difficulty’. The added difficulty is harder to stick with but it proves longer lasting in the memory.

  24. Try this instead… In class/at home, set the task of reading through a text and making notes, ask students to write a post-it summary at the end of each paragraph. This exercise forces them to extract the key meaning from the paragraph and reduce it down to something more palatable and memorable.

  25. e.g. From these two pages in a text book…

  26. To 5 brief Post-Its

  27. If you then take the post-its away from the text, you have a series of notes that can be arranged Obviously you might need a greater degree of information, but this method is a good start For self-testing To sequence key points into a flowchart or diagram

  28. Useful revision apps: Download revision apps to smart phones / tablets: £1.49- £1.99 approx.

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