1. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 Welcome to our REVISION EVENING

2. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 Our Objectives: To provide you with a range of revision strategies that will help you develop active, rather than passive techniques. To help parents better support their children with their revision.

3. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have The difference between try and triumph is a little umph Nothing easy is worthwhile…. Nothing worthwhile is easy

4. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 Read and write summaries of your notes but remember…. Revision Tips

5. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 The Pyramid method….

6. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 Plan your revision with a timetable

7. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 Use ‘Memory Maps’ for complicated topics - use pictures and symbols that spring to mind Put finished memory maps above your desk / bed - just above eye level.

8. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 You may need to listen to music (not the radio) when you revise. You may need to make up songs / rhymes to help you remember You may need to say things out loud

9. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 You may need to be active… cutting up ‘heads and tails’ and matching them up again.. Mouth grinds up the food Oesophagus connects the mouth to the stomach Stomach adds acid to the food to break it down Duodenum connects the stomach to the small intestine Remember labelled diagrams

10. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 Remind yourself over and over... Keep ‘topping up’. ‘Look, Cover, Write, Check’ Highlighting Make your own flash cards Make ‘jigsaws’ Get practice papers Making it Stick

11. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 Making it Stick Check with your teachers what you should know… go to revision classes Watch BBC Bitesize Videos Use the BBC Bitesize Website Work with someone else.. ‘The best way to learn is to teach…’

12. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 Making it Stick Use Mnemonics: Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain Use lots of these ways to revise as variety helps! Test yourself under ‘exam conditions’ Learn named examples/ case studies/ quotes as these get extra marks

13. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014 Success? It’s up to you!

14. Cape Cornwall School Revision Skills Evening 2014