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How do you revise?
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As a wonderfully ironic way to avoid revision, I am making this thread.
What techniques do you use when you are revising? I've never been told how to revise, just that I have to do it. And seeing as the exams are drawing ever closer for us all, now is probably the best time to share tips.
I'm having a go at drawing up a few mind maps, making some flash cards to test myself on studies and theories, sticking post-it notes with key terms all over the place, and practising exam questions. All good fun. :thumb:
So what works best for you?
What techniques do you use when you are revising? I've never been told how to revise, just that I have to do it. And seeing as the exams are drawing ever closer for us all, now is probably the best time to share tips.
I'm having a go at drawing up a few mind maps, making some flash cards to test myself on studies and theories, sticking post-it notes with key terms all over the place, and practising exam questions. All good fun. :thumb:
So what works best for you?
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Cross out whenever I move on to a new subject.
Makes me feel accomplished, and it all becomes a bit more bearable.
And yes, I am also avoiding to work, by replying here.
for history, sociology etc where you have to remember facts and argue them, condensing notes works very well
for maths, biology, chemistry, i think the ONLY way is just to practise, practise, practise on mock papers, past papers, practise papers.... anything to just prepare you
i find revision just confuses me. if i don't know it after i've sat through the lessons on it, i'm never going to know it.
not that i recommend this to others.
However I now realise this isn't the way to go about it. Firstly what I do is read through my notes from the year and make notes on each subject and then look up any extra stuff I need to know and make notes on that .
Then order all my notes into some kind of sense
Then make bullet points from these (If there is time).
However I have also found that the most useful thing you can do is sleep with all your books in your bed and hope that the knowledge seeps in whilst your asleep - I slept with my A-level geography book in my bed for the whole of my A level exams and got and A.
Oh and revising in bed is good as well because it means you cant get up and get destracted by anything.
Last time I did it I made 70 sides of notes in the two days. This method wouldn't work for most people I don't think, but it works really well for me.
i think for history and english though im going to make posters with all the linking idea on.
English is waaayy hard to revise for too.. literary terms like "iambic pentamenter" and "creative methods" just fuzzle my brain
i don't mind revision if i like what i'm revising, but if i don't like it then it's pointless.