exam revision techniques?
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25 Nov 2009, 01:09
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well i got these exams on thursday and i wondered if any of u guys got any techniques you use to revise certain topics.. be it a mindmap or bullet points etc.
what do you find the most effective way of revising? :)
thx :P
what do you find the most effective way of revising? :)
thx :P
other than that i just write pages and pages of notes and nothing really goes in.
1. write up notes
2. go through notes highlighting important bits or stuff you don't know/understand
3. google the stuff you don't understand and add it to the notes
THEN
3.5 Repeat any class tests or mini tests you did - checking the answers after and adding to your notes
4. Past papers - if you don't know the answer to a question, write it down and check your notes, if its not there google it later and add the information to your notes
5. Repeat step 4 but just do one paper a day per subject otherwise you'll go mad
6. Take your highlighted an extended notes and read them on the way to the exam :)
Just remember:
- Dont start past papers too early or you'll run out (like I did) and then you just get bored
- The human brain can only concentrate for short periods of time, so revise for an hour on something then stop for lunch and come back later on a different subject
- Adding to your notes will help information go in as you have to understand it to be able to type it into your notes
- Highlighting will forces you to actually read your notes
- by the end of it your notes will contain everything you need for the exams (hopefully)
Final thing (which i did last year) was to get some A4 paper and stick it on the wall with things I needed to google on them and then their answers when I did and also things which keep coming up. I didn't do too badly from it :) (4 A's Alevel, 72% average 1st year uni)
again thx so much for ur help :))
i used to hate revision and there aren't many good 'guides' around, let alone ones I would want to read, but I guess I learnt by trial and error and thats what Ive come up with
just dont revise too much or you'll go mad :) start early, do some and then you can relax and play ET in the evening :)
luckily we have been allowed study leave this year, the exams start tommorow and go on untill wednedsay next week (obviously excluding the weekend ':D') so i am gonna work on the revision for the exam i have the following day.
your tips helped alot btw :) <3
Well, this was in highschool, haven´t bothered to read anymore.
It seems totally shit but it helps me a lot x)
If you have to revise History /Geography etc I read it many times and then i try to underline important dates / words then you revise only important things.
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as soon as they say go, just write down all the equations you might need on the front of the paper
we did have some memonics, v=ir veronica in richard, e=vq everyone values quavers, q=it queers in tim, etc, and i know they helped some people
if you do physics at alevel you'll be reeling off T^2 = (4pi^2(h+R)^3)/(GM) like it's your birth date. seriously wish i could go back to getting marks for s=d/t :(
i liked the gravitational force ones
F = G*M1*M2/r^2 if I remember correctly...where m1 and m2 are masses and G is the gravitiational constant (6 x 10^-11 i think)
i'm taking it at university, that is, if i actually get round to starting my application :D
This is a really good site for help on stuff like this http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/
i'm generally bad at keeping in information so about a day before my philosophy exam i just wrote down everything i needed to include in my essays on a few sheets of A4
a close friend at the time had been doing that (re-writing notes on paper over and over) for a few weeks, i just sort of stole her method but did it half assed, i got a higher grade. i think not overdoing yourself is important.
works bestest!
on the day of the the exam skim those notes again and it should all be fresh in your mind !
this way you don't actually have to memorise anything which suits me
- Never study non-stop: study in blocks (50 mins, 1 chapter, whatever, then add a 15 min break)
- Sleep when you're not studying: helps processing everything
- eat stuff
+ what nakato said with the tree and the branch thing
Mind mapping helps, but don't 'overfocus' on them
Now, back to my mexican flu
Christmas never fails.
just learn all the stuff once, and memorize the important stuff very good :D!