1. Learning how you learn
Now that the information is in your heads…how can you keep it there?
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2. Review Prepare your mind to learn – get organised, relax and succeed
Use techniques which match your learning style preferences, which cause you to whole-brain learn and which practice getting information out of the brain.
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3. BUT
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4. Geography
Biology
None of this is any good if it only stays in your mind for a short period of time.
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English
Maths

5. How should you set out your revision days?
Let’s say that you decide to work all of one morning
Time (hours)
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6. How should you set out your revision days?
What is the alternative?
Time (hours)
Learning
Breaktime!
Breaktime!
Breaktime!
Breaktime! 1 2 3 4
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7. So work less and remember more!
How good is that?!
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8. How can you now keep the information in your head?
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9. The Ebbinghaus curve of forgetting
How we forget
Let’s imagine that you have had a successful morning revision session
The Ebbinghaus curve of forgetting
Percentage remembered
100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10
20mins 1hr hrs hrs days 5 days days
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10. How to remember everything you learn! The review cycle
Imagine again that you have had a successful morning revision session
10 mins day week month months
Probability of Recall
Gain in
recall
Normal curve
of forgetting
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11. What do you review? Haemoglobin La Maison The Class of 2003 Radio
Microwave
Infra-red
Visible Light
Ultra violet
X-Ray
Gamma Rays
Haemoglobin
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12. Review of this session!
Plan your revision sessions deliberately to include breaks
Plan to revise in such a way that you can build in as many short reviews as you can
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13. How to approach examinations
Next and Final Session
How to approach examinations
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