Revision Techniques

[Kaius]

Has anyone got any good revision/studying techniques i could try? I find a lot of things difficult and struggle with my dyslexia most of the time when trying to revise and my exams are fast approaching, so i could use some help. List as many as you'd like :) Thanks!

[Triceratops]

I have all mine during this month and next month, and I've done like no revision whatsoever. For my mock exams, I only revised for like an hour the night before. It worked then, but IDK if I'll be that lucky this time round. :P

What exams do you have?

[Magus]

It depends on what you have. Tell me, and I might help you a bit.

[scuba steve]

the one my teacher keeps hittin us with is read over something and then test yourself half an hour later to expand your long term memory, but other than that i got nothin. my A-levels are This Monday and i still aint opened the damn book

[Kaius]

Im doing A levels too, pain in the ass eh.
Sport theory
Chemistry
Maths
Biology
Physics

[Triceratops]

Oh, God. I see.

Well I'm only doing GCSE's, but whereas you're doing A Levels you may need to study hard. :(

If I were you, I would lock myself in a room for hours and hours with nothing but a pile of revision books beside me. Give someone else the key so that only they can let you out, just so you're not tempted to unlock the door and escape or anything.

Now, in all seriousness, a lot of schools have exam preparation classes available. If your tutors offer revision sessions after class, you should go to them, as you're not exactly going to be that easily distracted in a dull classroom.

[Kaius]

Good plan, I'll give that a try this week. What stuff do you find helps, like rewriting things, highlighting etc?

[Triceratops]

Well here are a few things that help me:

-Highlighting key things with neon colours that I need for my exam.
-Reading textbooks and writing out bullet points in my own words.
-Practicing past papers (I rarely do this in my spare time, but when we do it in class it actually helps).
-Saying things out loud, as you're likely to remember it better.
-Pinning your key notes to your wall, and read them before you go to sleep.

I'm no avid study person, but when I do revise I find that these techniques are useful to me.

[Kaius]

:) Thanks! I'll try those ^_^

[ShatteredWings]

Has anyone got any good revision/studying techniques i could try? I find a lot of things difficult and struggle with my dyslexia most of the time when trying to revise and my exams are fast approaching, so i could use some help. List as many as you'd like :) Thanks!

Follow the words on the text with an index card. It's easier to read (and for some peopel faster), and keeps the "skipping down lines" thing.

Also sumarize the text you're studying on loose leaf in your own words.

[scuba steve]

Oh, God. I see.

Well I'm only doing GCSE's, but whereas you're doing A Levels you may need to study hard. :(

If I were you, I would lock myself in a room for hours and hours with nothing but a pile of revision books beside me. Give someone else the key so that only they can let you out, just so you're not tempted to unlock the door and escape or anything.

Now, in all seriousness, a lot of schools have exam preparation classes available. If your tutors offer revision sessions after class, you should go to them, as you're not exactly going to be that easily distracted in a dull classroom.

aye you say that now, but an hour in and you'd start whacking your head off your table

[INFERNO]

When I revise in university, I underline in pencil the broad points then later in another colour, I underline more specific things and if need be, a third time if I have trouble understanding certain parts. I make my notes from summarizing notes I take in lectures and the main points from the book (the ones highlighted the most and by the last colour pen). Eventually, I may make a separate sheet of paper of things I still have trouble with but there are very few sheets at this point.

Using past exams and tests also helps quite a lot. It's also useful to do past exams in a study group so if you don't know the answer, hopefully someone else will and can explain it to you. You can also quiz each other and you may find out you don't know something as well as you thought you did, so you can brush up on that as you don't want to find out on the exam you don't know the stuff.

I have a very good memory but I make the notes so meticulously so that under pressure of the exams, I don't blank out on my memory as I've done many times in the past for the beginning of the exam.

Lastly, get a lot of sleep and don't stay up very late studying. If it's late and you're very tired, even if you've got a lot of studying left, call it a night as you can drink coffee/energy drinks but mentally you need a break. The night before the exam, get to sleep earlier so you can wake up a bit earlier and do a quick skim through of the notes. Sleep is very important as for many exams, I studied pretty much throughout many nights but I got so little sleep the night before the exam, I did piss poor on the exams.

[charlie w]

Im doing A levels too, pain in the ass eh.
Sport theory
Chemistry
Maths
Biology
Physics

and i thought geography, history and classical civilisation was bad.
I try to just get rid of all distractions-laptop ect and then do 5/6 hours a day with 1 hour on each subject then take 15/30 mins break in between.