1. Revision Skills

2. Objectives Understand the importance of revision
Find a revision style that suits you
Learn how to plan and manage revision

3. Fail to Prepare… … Prepare to Fail!
Revision when done correctly shouldn’t be difficult.
Revision can, however, be time consuming, so it’s important you start revising sooner rather than later.

4. What is Revision? Being Active – Not just Reading!!!! Planning
Revision means “Seeing again”
Being Selective
Discovering what information may have slipped your memory
Practising answers

5. Procrastination This is one of the Biggest problems for students
Procrastinating means to put off or delay doing something...
Remove distractions:
- Turn your phone off
- Log out of Facebook
- Use watching TV or other
distractions as a reward!

6. Revision Environment Good Bad
Do your tidying in advance, so you can’t use it as an excuse for not revising!

7. Plan out your time, make space to revise
Revision Time Table
Plan out your time, make space to revise

8. 24 Words 60 Seconds to Remember them
Time to test your memory …
24 Words 60 Seconds to Remember them

9. oak tree BLT sandwich Tiger Nephew pear Yoga powder Elephant Peter Pan
Africa
birthday party
Recycling
Green
Study Skills
candyfloss
whippersnapper
Strawberry Fire
salty
procrastination
iPhone
blood
oak tree
School
bottle

10. Remember any?
How many did you get?

11. What technique did you use?
24 Words
BLT Sandwich
Tiger
Pear
Powder
Peter Pan
Birthday Party
Green
Study Skills
Candyfloss
Whippersnapper
Salty
Procrastination
Blood
Oak tree
Bottle
Africa
Recycling
Strawberry
Fire
iPhone
School
Nephew
Yoga
Elephant
What technique did you use?

12. Revision Techniques Revision/ Q&A Cards
Summary/Comparison Table or Grids
Mind maps

13. Revision Techniques
Posters
Teaching Someone
Mnemonics

14. Revision / Q and A cards Summarise key information into bullet points
Put Q on one side and A on another
Use blank postcards/ post-it notes or special cards from stationers
Read your cards through regularly
Helpful Hint – Stick them around your bedroom (or house) so you see them regularly!
Then you can then stick them all around your bedroom, toilet, bathroom, where ever you will see them and read them.  Read your cards through regularly, a good way of utilising revision cards as one of the student studying tips is to read the card, cover it try and summarise what it said. Then re-read it and cover it, count to 5 and try and summarise it in writing, this will force you to absorb it into your long term memory.  Highlight key information, then rewrite it in your own words.
Take notes of the key points, then reduce the notes down until you can get the information on cue cards. Carry the cue cards around and look at them whenever you can.

15. Summary / Comparison Tables or Grids
Great way to compare or evaluate competing theories, grammatical rules or themes …
Strengths
Weaknesses
Comments
Theory 1
Theory 2
Theory 3
they’re a great way to compare or evaluate competing theories, grammatical rules or examples of themes in different parts of the course…but keep them fairly simple so you can remember them in the exam.

16. Helpful Hint: Use different colours!
Posters / Mind Maps
If you can make things stand out on the page, they will stand out in your mind!
Using colours and pictures may help you remember the theory, word, or information
Helpful Hint: Use different colours!

17. Raise your hand if you can tell us which picture has disappeared…
NEXT TASK…..
What's Missing??
Study this group of pictures for 30 seconds…when I move onto the next slide, one of the pictures will be missing!
Raise your hand if you can tell us which picture has disappeared…
So for our next task, I need you to firstly pair up, and then within those pairs, choose who will be A and who will be B
So A: I need you to close your eyes (or turn their chair around)
and B I need you to use your amazing descriptive skills to describe the following pictures to your partner..
Ready…

18. …60 seconds on this screen…

19. 3…2…1…

20. …60 seconds on this screen…

21. How Did You Do?
Ready… go…
No Peeking!

22. Teach Someone Teach a topic to a fellow student or a friend
Thinking it through is effective revision
Teach a topic to a fellow student or a friend
Fill in the gaps in your knowledge as you identify them
It can be more fun revising in groups!!
This way you can both test each other, you will both be learning and the same time by testing each other

23. Rhymes and alliteration, poems
Mnemonic Devices
Mnemonics: are clues of any kind that help us remembering, usually by associating the information we want to remember with visual image, a sentence, or a word…
Visual Image
Acrostic
Acronym
Rhymes and alliteration, poems
Mnemonics are clues of any kind that help us remembering, usually by associating the information we want to remember with visual image, a sentence, or a word.
Visual image-associate a visual image with a word or a name
Acrostic-make up a sentence in which the first letter of each word is part of represents the initial of what you want to remember
Acronym-word that is made up by taking the first letters of all the key words or ideas you need to remember and creating a new word out of them
Rhymes and alliteration- rhymes and alliterations(a repeated sound or syllable), and even jokes are a memorable way to remember more mundane facts and figures
Chunking-breaks a long list of numbers or other types of information into smaller chunks
Chunking

24. B Visual D A Bactrian Camel A Dromedary camel
A Bactrian Camel's back is shaped like the letter B. A Dromedary's back is shaped like the letter D.
9 Times table can be done using your fingers

25. Acrostic My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
Never Eat Cake Eat Salmon Sandwiches And Remain Young
N E C E S S A R Y
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
Never Eat Shredded Wheat?
Roman Numerals: I Value Xylophones Like Cows Do Milk I V X L C D M
To remember the compass directions. Starting at the top and going clockwise: "Never Eat Shredded Wheat."

26. Rhymes and Alliteration
I before E
Except after C
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which has twenty-eight, that's fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Principle vs. Principal
Your principal is your pal
A rule can be called a principle

28. Acronym Where each letter in a word stands for another word.
Can make things easier to memorise!
PEN – Proton, Electron, Neutron
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Now its your Turn -
WWW?
BRB?
NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration( of USA)
ASAP
DIY
ETA PS
self-contained underwater breathing apparatus – SCUBA
RAdio Detection And Ranging – RADAR
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation – LASER
KFC BP
DVD

29. Task
Imaginary 14 letter word
30 sec to memorise

30. 30 Sec to Memorise XBMWSTAMTVPHDX
Short-Term Memory (STM) has a limited capacity
Chunking is based on the idea that short-term memory is limited in the number of things that can be contained. A common rule is that a person can remember 7 (plus or minus 2) "items" in short-term memory.

31. Could you remember all the letters?
Chunking
Could you remember all the letters?
Probably Not!!!!
14 letters exceeds the capacity of your short term memory.
If you can’t remember it in the short term, you wont remember it in the long term!

32. Chunking X BMW STA MTV PHD X 01202962999 01202 962 999
For example when memorising a phone number its easier to chunking

33. The Exam Question
Words in the question may throw you off completely…but don’t panic!
Step by step process:
Highlight the command words in the question
Pick out the key words to help you understand the question
Plan your answer, making sure you’ve answered the command word
DESCRIBE EVALUATE COMPARE CONTRAST EXPLAIN

34. VAK Learning Styles Visual
The Questionnaire
I remember things better if I write them down
When I think of spellings I picture them in my head
I have to look at someone when they speak to me
I find it difficult to concentrate when there’s a noise
I like looking at maps and pictures
I am not very good at remembering jokes
I like to doodle and make notes when I learn something new
I am good at thinking of ideas in my head
I remember people’s faces
I like to make lists
When I get a new idea I like to write it down or draw a picture
I learn a practical skill best by watching someone do it
I love doing crosswords and word searches
Number of Ticks for Visual

35. Auditory Number of Ticks for Auditory
I remember things better if I hear them
I like to discuss things before I start to work
I work better if I’m not alone
I would rather hear new things than read about them
I sometimes look out of the window even though I am listening
I don’t like working on more than one task at a time
I remember people’s voices
I love telling jokes
I like learning the words of songs and rhymes
I like reading and writing poetry
I remember things by ‘hearing’ them in my head
I find it hard to picture things in my head
I like reading out loud
Number of Ticks for Auditory

36. Kinaesthetic Number of Ticks for Kinaesthetic
I hate listening to instructions – I’d rather have a go
I don’t like sitting still
I use my hands to describe things
I like to walk around when I’m working
My desk looks messy to everyone else but I Know where things are
I like to talk out loud when I’m working
I like to work on projects and designing things
I like to plan my work in my head before I begin
I hate checking my work after I have finished
I sometimes take notes but I never use them
I like to act and do drama
I don’t mind noise when I work
It sometimes takes me a while to get started on a new project
Number of Ticks for Kinaesthetic

37. Learning Styles Methods and Resources
Visual
Write out notes using different coloured pens
Draw diagrams and charts
Use timelines
Re-write facts, formulas, information, notes and pin them around your room
Use pictorial reminders
Use highlighters
Visually organise your notes into columns, page sections and forms
Use maps
Auditory
Discuss facts, concepts and ideas with a friend
Do homework in a group
Listen to tapes or record notes
Walk around and talk through your notes
Use rhymes and songs to memorise facts, times-tables etc.
Give presentations and speeches to yourself
Read aloud
Use auditory reminders
Kinaesthetic
Make models
Take plenty of study breaks – Kinaesthetic learners need more breaks than visual or auditory
Move around while learning something new
Hold a stress ball
Write notes on post-it notes and arrange them into topics
Use body pegs method of revising key points – attach a key word to a part of the body with an action
Label diagrams
Re-enact information
Go on site visits

38. Summary Plan Use different revision techniques
Have fun with your revision
Seek help!: Don’t go it alone. They say a problem shared is a problem halved.
Relax: Don’t panic! Start revising early and stay calm
I always find that colour helps me to visulaise a page. For example using highlighters and different coloured paper.

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40. Your Future
Your GCSE exam results will hugely influence where you go after year 11.
Please don’t think they aren’t important!