Serious School Revision Guide

This is a basic guide on how to improve your revision techniques for your upcoming tests and exams.
Some of these will be for specific topics, but the majority of them are easily transferable. I hope by reading this you're able to memorise the necessary information much more easily.

Flashcards:
A flash card is where you write a question on one side of the card, with the answer on the back. By using these, you can either ask yourselves the questions or get someone to ask them for you. This will help question your ability to answer a relevant topic question and help you remember the answer if you continuously go over them.

Mind-maps:
A mind-map is a simple diagram that displays all the information needed to remember, in a much more visual manner. These will mainly contain a variety of basic notes, displaying many different types of information to you which will be very easily to memorise. By using a mind-map, you'll be able to becoming much more organised during revision.
An example of a mind-map is:



Summary notes:
Just by making quick notes on the different topics in your subject, you'll be able to easily adapt the many different types of answers you'll need to give. By writing the notes over and over again the informal will stay in your head and become a lot easier to memorise and replicate in an exam.

Use colour:
By adding colour to important parts of your notes, your eyes will be immediately drawn to them and you'll be able to go over them a lot more than your other notes. This will help keep those specific notes in your head a lot easier, which you can then expand on with the knowledge from everything else you have learned from your subject.
You can also use colour to help organise specific topics. You may have seen me use different colours for many different sections of my threads - this helps people know where to look for the information that they need.

Record your lectures, or yourself reading notes:
This is used for more auditory learners. By listening to the notes of your teachers' lectures, you'll be able to remember all the information directly spoken to you. Allowing you to go back over each topic, having it stick in your memory at all times.

Youtube Videos
By looking at youtube videos of your topic of study, you're able to gain a greater explanation than you may gain from looking over things online. With someone going through questions, answers and explanations as a whole, you'll be able to watch, listen and learn in a way that may suit your needs for the better. You can watch these while doing some papers yourself, so you can try it while you're learning about it.

Study groups:
A study group is where you and a few/many others get together to discuss your subject as a whole, going through the many different topics and revising together, as one. This will allow you all to answer eachother's questions, gain more knowledge about your subject and have a lot more fun in doing so.
You're also able to choose your own environment entirely; whether it be at your home, a friends home, school, library or wherever else you're able to get together.

Past-papers:
By going over past-papers you're able to find out how questions are typically written, and what kind of questions you may be provided with. You could also follow this up by marking it yourself, with the assistance of the exam's mark scheme (or you could just get your teacher to mark or, whatever suits you best).
The main idea of this is to familiarise yourself with the different ways exams are written out, and the questions that they ask. You will eventually adapt to this.

Past-answers:
By looking at previous papers' answers, you'll be able to grasps what marks you'll gain for what you write. In my opinion, it's best to go over the highest-graded papers in order to adapt and realise what you'll gain the most marks for.

Past mark-schemes:
A mark scheme shows how the examiner marks the paper, where marks are given and the answers for every question. By going over these, you'll be able to familiarise yourself with what is expected within your answers and possibly correct mistakes you've made in your papers.

Revision timetables:
By creating a simple timetable of when you should be studying, you'll be able to organise which days and the length of your revision a lot easier.

Length of studying:
Make sure you don't study for too long all at once, otherwise it'll become far too much for your brain to handle. After about 3 hours, have a 30 minute break to do whatever you want.

Have enough to eat:
Make sure you have eaten or have food prepared for while you're revising. If you don't, you'll be tempted to get up and stop studying all-together.

Do not procrastinate:
Make sure you stick to the timetable you have given yourself. Don't make up your own excuses to simply not revise.

Environment:
Make sure you've found the best environment for studying. It's best to be in your room, preferably at a very tidy desk, in silence away from others. For some people music allows them to think easier; however, if you do this, make sure you choose music that does not have any lyrics - this will remove temptation to sing along to whatever you're listening to.



Remember, these are just the methods I think that are the best to help you revise. I don't use them all, but I have used a lot. They're what I've seen to be most effective in the past.
I hope this is able to help you during your current, or future exams.

Good luck on your revision.
If there's anymore you'd like to be added, just post below or throw me a DM telling me what should be added.


and yes, I re-posted something I posted on a different forum. Sh.

Thanks for the tips! I'll try some of these out to see if they work for me

06-03-2018, 03:12 AM

May Wrote: Thanks for the tips! I'll try some of these out to see if they work for me

No problem. If you need any help or more detail on any of the given suggestions just let me know.
Hopefully some people find this of use, I know not everyone has the ability to force themselves to revise in a certain way, so this should help you and others find your perfect way in doing so.

Good luck to you.

Pffft who needs school, just be a failure like me!
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On that forreal tho, this might actually of been helpful when I was in school.
Man I wish I didn't fuck off :/ :C