Advice from my Year 11′s on how to revise:

I asked my Year 11′s what advice they would give to year 10 on how to revise for their Year 10 exams. This is the summary of their most popular points:

• Create a revision timetable
• Have little 10 minute breaks every hour.
• Make conclusions after each paragraph
• Just LISTEN in class and think to yourself “do you understand it”
• Use Cue cards for definitions and test yourself until you can remember the answers with ease.
• Get off Facebook/MSN/ichat etc. (loads of students suggest this)-TURN YOUR COMPUTER OFF.
• Get Sleep!
• Read through your textbook.
• Concentrate when you are reading, don´t be thinking about other things.
• Make yourself a little revision test on each topic and test yourself.
• Keep your books and notes from Year 10.
• Try and have an area where you do your revision which doesn’t have any things to distract you.
• Always revise the stuff you don’t like first.
• Don’t just copy notes from a book.
• If you have an exam coming u split the subject into topics and learn each topic per night.
• Revise how you want to: drawing pictures could help you to understand.
• Create shortened versions of your information that you are studying, which includes all the main points.

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