1. Effective Revision strategies- What works and what doesn’t?
Year 11
Effective Revision strategies-
What works and what doesn’t?
e.g. Re-reading or use of highlighters are only the beginning of the learning journey, you need to do something a bit more, something to engage more actively ...
......that’s what the evidence shows...!

2. Revision techniques - the good, the OK and, well…the less good.
Professor John Dunlosky reviewed 1,000 scientific studies looking at 10 of the most popular revision strategies. Yes – he did this. And his research team.

3. 1. Practice Questions Retrieval practice method Self-testing
Planning out answers

5. How can you test yourself?
Past paper questions
Plan out answers in key points
Write out answers
Practice questions in books
Make / design exam Qs and trade with a friend
Make flash cards and test yourself with them
Get someone to test you verbally on your notes
Online quiz

6. 2. Distributed [spaced learning]practice
The ‘when’ of studying – so when you’ll revise / study aspects of subjects
Split up time over subjects e.g. 4 hrs spread across 2 weeks
Focus on whjat’s most important
More is better

7. 3. Explaining Something - Elaborative interrogation !
You have a fact you need to learn / memorize / revise
You ask yourself ‘Why is this true’?
You make up a (plausible) explanation for why the fact is true
Helps your mind to make sense of the idea and relate it to existing ideas

8. 4. Self-explanation
Explaining how new information is related to known information..

9. 4a. Self-explanation
..or explaining steps taken when looking at worked examples
work done
..because is needs to match the weight in size
The unit of work is the Joule
..because energy is conserved

10. 5. Interleaved practice
Following a revision timetable that mixes up different subjects / topic / types of work within the same session

11. 6. Summarizing (note taking)
Selecting / reducing info. to summarize
Textbook or revision guide as a source
Creating key summaries of key topics e.g. bullet point lists / spider diagrams

12. 7. Highlighting/underlining
Marking important points in a book or notes

13. 8. Keyword mnemonic Sentences for lists: Imagery for lists:
la dent (tooth)
la clef (key)
revenir (to return)
mourir (to die)

14. 9. Imagery for text
Attempting to form mental images of text materials while reading or listening

15. 10. Rereading
Restudying text again after an initial reading

16. Which actually work? Highest Medium Lower – but of some use still
Effectiveness
Strategies
Highest
Practice questions / testing
Distributed practice
Medium
Elaborative interrogation
Self-explanation
Interleaved practice
Lower – but of some use still
Summarization
Highlighting
Keyword mnemonics
Imagery for text
Rereading

17. Distributed testing cycle
Read or make notes but don’t spend long
Test yourself: initially with the book open, later without
Mark and grade your work.
Evaluate your mistakes
Identify which questions you lost marks on: use your notes or Bitesize quizzes to go over these areas again
Score improved from last time? Y N
Seek help: ask a teacher, a friend or parent.
This is why revision needs to be over several weeks..

18. Why are we telling you this now?
You need to start revising early: distributed testing
Remaining class tests: opportunity to rehearse new revision techniques
Work with a friend
Next steps:
Timetable
Making a revision plan

19. Evaluate: how to improve
Evaluating mistakes
Metacognition: ‘Thinking about thinking’ aka ‘Learning to learn’;
Reflect:
Why did I choose that answer?
What was faulty about my answer?
What information was I missing?
Test yourself
Reflect on mistakes
Evaluate: how to improve
Find a similar task
You are probably already doing this sort of thing in lessons for some of your teachers. Reflecting on your learning helps with motivation, independence and ultimately your progress.

20. Evaluate: how to improve
Evaluating mistakes
Evaluate:
What should I have been thinking about for this Q?
What would I do differently next time?
What do I need to go over again before trying a similar Q?
Test yourself
Reflect on mistakes
Evaluate: how to improve
Find a similar task
What can you test yourself with?
Can you mix it up?

21. MAP Exam De-stress sessions
Fridays pm in M22
Practical strategies

22. The Spirit of the Exams – a vibe?
Exam timetable
Helping Each Other – as you would
Subject by subject – break it down
Try the methods
Breaks