Trial exam information Check timings Return to lessons following an exam Equipment

Tutor group assembly slot- Year 11 Support with revision Advice and guidance

Making the learning stick- effective revision strategies What are you going to do to/with the information in order that you will understand it?

Facts about revision 1. No-one likes revising. Effective revision requires hard and sustained work. There is no shortcut.

Facts about revision 2. Students work about as hard as their friends. Are your friends dragging down your grades or helping?

Facts about revision 3. Effort is a habit; the more you do it, the easier it becomes. Systems and timetables help to develop good habits.

Not effective

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Summarising Texts

Why? Low challenge. Little thinking required. Makes the student think that they are ‘doing something’

More effective What are you going to do to/with the information in order that you will understand it?

Learning is the consequence of thinking.... Learning at Lady Lumley’s What are you going to do to/with the information in order that you will understand it? Learning is the consequence of thinking.... therefore your job is to think. Language is central to thinking…. therefore your job is to talk. Learning is an active process… therefore your job is to do something with the information.

Practice testing This technique has been shown to have the highest impact in terms of supporting student learning. Some ways in which you can do this easily: Create some flashcards, with questions on one side and answers on the other – and keep testing yourself. Work through past exam papers – many can be acquired through exam board websites- only when you have revised. Simply quiz each other (or yourself) on key bits of information. Create ‘fill the gap’ exercises for you and a friend to complete.

Distributed Practice Distributed practice Rather than cramming all of your revision for each subject into one block, it’s better to space it out – from now, through to the exams. It gives you some ‘forgetting time’. This means that when you come back to it a few weeks later, you will have to think harder, which actually helps you to remember it.

Graphic organisers These are a useful tool for organising revision. See some templates on the next two slides. Search- graphic organisers

Mind Maps Complete mind-maps on previous topics, without using your books/notes. This will force you to retrieve what you know and identify gaps in your knowledge. This conscious awareness of what you know and don’t know will help to embed learning, and will force you to revise what you don’t know. Use two colours- before checking notes and after

“The best revision guide is a well-organised exercise book/ folder” Shaun Allison

The Cornell System Use the margin to write keywords and key questions linked to the work on that page. Test yourself by covering the bulk of your work and leaving yourself with key terms and questions to explain and define and questions to answer.

Contents Page Create a contents page for your exercise book Note down what is on each page This will make you do something with the information and make it more likely that it will stick RAG rate each page or number 1-5 (least confident to most confident). This will help you to target your revision.

Online support- www.memrise.com

Stretch and Challenge Walls

Knowledge Organisers