1. What motivates you? Any-thing else? Treats and rewards:
Revision Memory Techniques 2011
What motivates you?
Treats and rewards:
A sense of achievement:
A sense of progress:
Any-thing else?
Sustaining motivation
Praise:
Future goals:
Working with others
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2. What’s wrong here?
Possible answers (clockwise from top left) but other ideas & interpretations are fine:
Working late into the night & not getting enough sleep
Thinking that you won’t do well anyway
Being bored and unmotivated
Trying to work with too many distractions
Trying to cram at the last minute
Trying to work at times when you’re not alert / awake
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After this slide, do the Good & bad revision tips activity
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3. Revision: 2 parts.. What do you need to know?
How will you need to use it in the exam?
Learn it
Practise using it
2nd part appears when you click;
This is to draw attention to the fact that it’s important to think about BOTH aspects of effective revision.
Then focus on remembering – activity on slides 5-9
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4. ? Learning and recall Remembering more: Longer, more effective recall:
Organise material into meaningful, connected sections
Use techniques that suit you personally – people remember best in different ways
Longer, more effective recall:
Repetition – review material often
Adopt active strategies & practise using the material
Use memory aids ?
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5. Work with your strengths
People are different and remember/prepare best in different ways:
These prompts are just to encourage students to think of all the ways they might revise effectively (NB – yes, sing! Why do so many ads use music and jingles? And dance – some people are helped to remember by setting things to actions)
Students in small groups discuss which techniques they already use and why; which others might be useful for them and why
Suggestions for pictures:
Cue cards on key-rings & carry them round – test yourself in spare moments eg waiting for bus, queue for coffee
Charts /diagrams – put labels on post-its and stick some on every time you walk past
Mnemonics of all kinds
Test each other
Use past exam papers
Text each other questions
Make concept maps, diagrams, charts, graphs etc
Make up case studies / questions for each other & discuss answers
Set it to music and/or actions
Adaptable study skills pack: Revision