Transcript How can I revise??? - Learn @ Caerphilly

How can I revise???
 Your revision guides
from PSE – USE
THEM
 Making it stick
 Using mind maps
 Ten top tips
Start early– don’t leave it for a rainy day
 Remove all
distractions
 Get someone to
motivate you
 Think of how satisfied
you will feel in August
 Start by doing a little
– try revising in short
chunks this weekend
Week beginning: Monday 24th October
Day
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Monday
School
Homework
Homework
Homework
Tuesday
School
Maths
Maths
Welsh/History/Geo
graphy/Music/Eng
Lit (Organise!!!)
Wednesday School
Top up
Maths
Sci/Tech/RS/PE/
(Organise!!!!)
Thursday
School
Top up
Maths
French/Business/
ICT/Music/Art/
Friday
School
Top up
Continue to
organise work
Saturday
Free
Free
Sunday
Review week
Review week
Planning
Plannning
Revision tools - Tricks of the trade
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A3 plain paper
Highlighter pens
Post-it notes or cards
Marker pens; glue sticks,
scissors
Coloured pens and paper
Files and folders, filing
box for organising
Timer (egg timer, alarm
clock etc)
Revision timetable
A quiet work space
A Visual Learner? – using your eyes
 You are good at
remembering things
visually – you remember
a picture of what you see
when you read the page
 Try notes or equations
on bits of paper – colour
them in – add curly bits,
trees, animals, anything
that makes it stick
 Look over notes once a
day – remember pictures.
In the exam you will ‘see’
the paper and remember
 Use mind maps or
spider diagrams
Or an auditory learner? – using your
ears
 You are good at
remembering sounds
 Music can help you
 Say things out loud to
help you remember
 Use songs, rhyme to
help you remember
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Or a kinaesthetic learner? – doing
this to learn
 Your mind works best
when your body is active
– you are doing things
 Do write things out as you
revise – make notes,
highlight, create jigsaws,
cut and paste
 Moving around and
actively doing things as
you work will help you
remember
My advice
 Do all three and see
which works for you
 Anything which
makes it stick is worth
doing
 Get yourself
motivated
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
 If you revise something
tonight, by tomorrow you
will have forgotten some
of it
 So take a quick look to
‘top up’ your memory
 Do this again in a week’s
time, and keep ‘topping
up’ until the night before
the exam
 THIS IS NOT TIME
CONSUMING
 It is satisfying and
comforting because
you find stuff looks
more familiar each
time you look at it
Look, Cover, Write, Check
 A familiar spelling
technique
 Read it – hide it away
– write it out – check
to see if you got it
right
 Useful for spellings,
diagrams, equations,
lists of facts, dates etc
Highlighting
 Go through your books
and files and notes
highlighting key words
and ideas
 This makes revision
easier because the act of
‘scanning’ aids revision.
 Do this with all handouts you are allowed to
keep!
 Personalise your
handouts using
highlighters and simple
drawings – that way it will
be yours in your memory
Use flash cards
My favourite revision tool – helps to
summarise
These can help you remember quotations,
facts and equations
Put main ideas on one side and all the
main details you need on the other
Look at them whenever you have a spare
moment (lunchtimes, break times,
registration, on the bus etc)
Question and Answer technique
 Dull facts on one side:
1. Extracting metal from an oxide needs a
reaction
2. Metals higher than carbon in the reactivity
series need ‘electrolysis’
3. Metals lower than carbon can be extracted
using carbon, because carbon can remove
oxygen from metals which are less reactive
4. Order. K, Na, Ca, Mg, Al, C, Zn, Fe, Sn, Pb
Questions on the other side
1. What needs to happen to extract metals
from oxides?
2. What is used to extract metals higher in
the r-series than carbon
3. What is used to extract metals lower than
carbon?
4. What is the order of the reactivity series?
Make jigsaws
 List things on a sheet of
paper, cut the paper out
then sort it – e.g. plots in
your English set texts;
key quotations;
processes in science and
geography
 Useful to put things in
order
 Use post-it notes
 Making and using helps
you to remember
Identify your strong and weak areas
Go through your books. Put green blobs
beside stuff you’re happy about.
Put red blobs besides bits you’re not sure
of or find more difficult
Work on the red bits and ask your teacher
about them.
You can also do this by highlighting
parts
Work with someone else
 Some say that two is
better than one
 ‘The best way to learn
is to teach’
 If you can explain
things to somebody
else then you know
you have got it
straight yourself
Ten Top Tips
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Start now – 3-6 weeks
Use your revision plan
Organise yourself, your
notes and your books
Find the best place to revise
– comfy, well-lit, quiet. Keep
all materials – pens, books,
paper, guides within easy
reach
Choose the revision methods
that suit you – try things out
6. Take regular breaks
7. Keep healthy – make sure
you eat well and get enough
sleep. Exercise regularly;
you’ll feel refreshed
8. Set yourself achievable
targets and reward yourself
when you reach them
9. Try past papers –
questions; key words;
layout of paper, timing etc
10. Ask for help if you need it