Flash cards Using your revision notes and the hints and tips from “How to write revision notes” summarise your revision notes onto flash cards

Post-it notes Put key facts and notes onto post-its and put them round the house where you will regularly see them.

Mnemonics Use a set of letters to remind you of key facts

8 diatomic molecules What is this a mnemonic for?

Using more than one type of revision technique / mnemonic

Learn the “Body-pegs” memory technique and use it to learn key points. (This is a technique where you have to attach one key-word to each body-peg in turn.) Body pegs

Story boards…

Making a story Your journey to school, your route from the kitchen to your room… These are very familiar to you – and very useful! Pin an idea or concept you have to remember to different places on your route, every time you walk/drive this route repeat the story. When you need it in an exam, remember your route.

My favourite example – memorising the Electro-magnetic Spectrum in the correct order. The journey I use is from my bed to my car in the morning. I’m woken by the radio (radio waves); I put my porridge in the microwave oven (microwaves); I sit down at the kitchen table and read the paper which is a red top (infra-red waves); the sun comes up and it’s light (light waves); I leave and smell the violets growing in the back yard (ultra- violet waves); I get into my X-registration car (X rays) and go to the supermarket for some gammon steak (gamma rays).

To remember a difficult fact…. Do something unusual

Revision research…

Memory aids Today you have been looking at ways of aiding your memory and recalling key information when you need it.

Ask for help! If you need help, don’t be afraid to ask! Share your worries instead of bottling it up and ending up stressed You could ask another pupil, or you can ask a teacher for help any time