1. Effective Revision strategies- What works?
Year 10
The One about Revision - our route to 2019
Effective Revision strategies-
What works?

2. Summer Mocks – trialling the route
Stage 3
Yr 11 Summer
Stage 2
Yr 11 Mocks
Stage 1 Summer Mocks
You are here…!

3. Revision Exams are now 6 weeks away.
Plenty of time as long as you are organised
Revision timetables are key.
The 3hrs concept ….
Using time well….
But there is little point spending the time
revising unless it is effective.

4. - Spacing our your practice
Revision timetables
- Spacing our your practice
My Study Plan App – very useful – key in your exams & use
Day
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9:00-10:00
10:30-11:30
12:00-13:00
14:00-15:00 (Boost)
15:30-16:30 (Boost)

5. The Research
Professor John Dunlosky reviewed 1,000 scientific studies looking at 10 of the most popular revision strategies.
Key is SELF TESTING - a.k.a retrieval practice –
a really effective way of embedding learning if
used across time – with a revision schedule.
But:
* Build
* Use
* Apply
e.g. build a bank of cue cards; use them; apply them….

6. Evidence informed methods – Build, Use , Apply
Effectiveness
Revision method [they can build & support each other]
High – Impact
APPLY
Practice testing – e.g. planning & writing answers / short questions / knowledge questions [checking you know…!]
Revision Schedule – 3hrs per day
Moderate
USE
Testing explanations – what’s key here? Use of cue cards
Interleaved practice – bits of subject split up over session
Low – Impact
BUILD
Summarising – key notes / cue cards
Highlighting with marker to then use for summaries

7. 3 part process to build to self testing with practice questions
2. Use of Cards!!
3. Prep; plan & do PQs
1. Make Flashcards
Use a variety of strategies for motivation
e.g. know the story via youtube video / Seneca
e.g. testing each other for MFL / History events / Science equations

8. 3.) The key 3: sleep, diet & exerciseDo
1.) Act on the feedback you have received - ! – ask if you don’t understand and keep asking your teachers.
2.) Revise the subjects/topics you dislike and/or understand the least first and in the most detail.
3.) The key 3: sleep, diet & exercise

9. The Holy Trinity of distractions………

10. Needing some advice? Your Advice Worker in school is Georgie Murdoch
I can provide confidential advice and support on things like…
At MAP we will never judge you or tell you what to do
We can help you to make your own decisions
You can contact me by…
Dropping in to the 6th Form office (Room 2) during first break on Friday’s
Sending an to
Dropping into the MAP Life Zone in M23 on Friday lunchtimes
Posting a message into a MAP post box (in student reception and the 6th Form area)
Knowing your rights
Preparing for independence
Worries about home, school or social media
Your future plans
Managing exam stress
Employment

11. STUDY TIPS – Quite useful
Tips on managing yourself to the exams – managing anxiety etc

12. Our Notre Dame Exam Prayer
Lord God
We pray to You at this time,
as we gather our energies for our Mock exams.
We ask You for Your gifts of
peace, and calm, during this time,
so that we can each do our best.
Help us
to do what we can,
to enjoy our achievements,
and to know how to best use our talents,
now,
and in the future,
in Your service.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen

13. Appendix

14. What works – the top 10 study methods educational research evidence – 700 articles on 10 common learning techniques – 2013 Dunloksy et al
Self-testing
- practice questions
[Retrieval practice of key ideas / content / examples using notes /flashcards etc]
[also helps identify gaps – go back & sort]
2. Distributed practice
[ a revision schedule / studying subjects / topics and revisiting them with gaps in-between]
3. Elaborative interrogation
[BUT WHY?!!
- Explaining something in detail]
5. Interleaved practice [different types of problems within study blocks of time]
4. Self-explanation
– what new information does this tell me?
6. Summarising
7. Highlighting
8. Keyword mnemonics
9. Imagery for text
10. Rereading

15. How can you test yourself – knowledge and application?
Make flash cards and test yourself with them
Retrieval methods
Application
Practice questions – i.e. Answers to!
Past paper questions
Plan out answers in key points
Write out answers
Get someone to test you verbally on your notes

16. How to revise History? An example.
1.) Text mark your book and compare to specification. 2.) Review your booklets and revision guides. 3.) Timelines, factors, significant people and events. 4.) Reduce each topic to cue cards. 5.) Listen to podcasts. 6.) History file videos. 7.) Review past papers. 8.) Plan & prep. [a number] & write [some] practice questions