1. How to revise!

2. Remember! Different strategies work for different people
Learning styles:
visual,
auditory,
kinaesthetic (practical)
You need to use a range of strategies!

3. What strategies can you use?
Flash cards
Practice questions
Internet
Revising with / testing friends
Labelled diagrams
Writing notes
Writing lists
Underlining in notes
Star diagrams
Mind maps
Mnemonics

4. Writing notes
It is better to rewrite notes than to simply read through work
Don’t rewrite everything, you need to cut down on the amount of information
Do make sure you have enough detail!
Summarise!

5. Advantages Disadvantages
Writing lists
Lists are a good way of remembering information or advantages / disadvantages for a topic
Write lists as bullet points
Use small pictures to help you e.g.
Quarrying Limestone
Advantages Disadvantages
 Used to make cement and glass
 Noise pollution and increased traffic

6. When writing lists…….
If you use a colour (e.g. green for good and red for bad) use the same colours every time
Use a different colour to highlight
5 points is a good number to remember
Little drawings are a good way of helping you remember points, even a silly drawing will help!

7. Using numbers!
You may be able to remember numbers more easily than names. If this is the case try to put figures with points where you can.
E.g. ‘Recycling is good’ would become ‘Recycling uses only 5-10% of the energy used to extract a metal from its ore’

8. Using labelled diagrams
An excellent way to learn especially for visual learners!

9. Highlighting in notes
It is difficult to remember a page of notes if they are all the same font and colour
Use colour / different sizes for heading / key points
Underline key points or draw borders round them
like this!
Use diagrams, lists and pictures to break up pages of notes

10. Mind maps
Like a star / spider diagram but contains much more detail and demonstrates links between material more clearly

11. Revising with friends ADVANTAGES: can talk about the work
can test each other
easier to remember facts if spoken out loud
DISADVANTAGES
Too easy to talk about something more interesting instead!

12. Exam questions
Use past questions as you revise to make sure you have the notes / case studies necessary to get full marks
Test yourself under exam conditions

13. Mnemonics
Use the first letter of a series of words to create another word
The sillier the better! E.g. OILRIG )
O oxidation R reduction
I is I is
L loss G gain
of electrons

14. Revision cards Put separate topic / case study on each card
Keep topics together
Don’t try to put too much information on each card

15. Revision card example Ionic bonding Metal bonds with a non-metal:
Metal loses electrons to form positive ion
Non-metal gains electrons to form a negative ion
Oppositely charged ions attract
Overall charge = 0

16. Practical learners Post-it notes Walk around
Use the rooms space e.g. one side of the room for good points, the other side for bad points
Make shapes with your hands
Make something (a mobile, a tower)

17. Auditory learners
Record your notes as an mp3 file (and listen to them!)
Speak aloud
Tell someone else what you have learned

18. Visual learners Use pictures, video Use coloured pens / highlighters
Form a ‘mental picture’ to try to ‘see’ the whole topic e.g. Reaction rates .…. How do things link together? What affects rate and why? What makes particles collide successfully?
Use mind maps

19. Other points!
To get you started, make your first revision session 5-10 minutes – then have a break
You should then find it easier to go back to
Organise yourself
Plan a revision timetable
Take breaks of 5-10 minutes every 25 minutes
If you are worried speak to someone!
DON’T leave it all until the last minute

20. Task!
Do past exam questions – and get them marked! You need to know if what you are doing is working.

21. Useful websites KS3 www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesizeKS KS