1. Revision!
How can we help?

2. Didn’t bother to revise ?
Revision Technique
Didn’t bother to revise ?

3. How do you revise? Read through your notes?
What are the other Options for revision?

4. Revision Technique
Left brain?
No brain?
Right brain?

5. Revision Technique – Left brain? Right brain?
LEFT BRAINED PEOPLE PREFER:
Working in a linear way – first point, then second point etc.
Written information
Working to deadlines
Checking their work
Structure
Clear instructions to follow
Reading & writing
Being organised

6. Revision Technique – Left brain? Right brain?
RIGHT BRAINED PEOPLE PREFER:
Learning from a video, role play or watching a demonstration
Open-ended tasks
Self-selected tasks
Setting their own deadlines
Looking at the “big picture” -the whole task
Hands-on experience
Working from intuition & guesswork
RIGHT BRAINED PEOPLE MAY APPEAR DISORGANISED

7. A typical Left-brained person’s revision area
Revision Technique – Left brain? Right brain?
If you’re mostly right brained :
you tend to live for the moment and not think too much about consequences.
you like to be creative and imaginative when tackling tasks.
you have good ideas about tackling tasks – but aren’t necessarily good at completing that task.
you don’t like deadlines and they may cause you stress.
you should incorporate videos, graphs, mind-maps, computers and colour into your studying.

8. A typical Right-brained person’s revision area
Revision Technique – Left brain? Right brain?
Left brained or Right brained?

9. How to Revise What kind of person are you ?
Some students are early birds.
They will definitely want to use the morning session.
Late risers will avoid mornings like the plague !
Night owls will do their best revision in the evenings.

10. How should you revise? Where should you revise? Warm
Well lit (a reading lamp reduces eye-strain)
In a quiet room
Have a clock or watch nearby (time your revision sessions).

11. Study at the right time and in SHORT bursts
(20 solid minutes followed by a break and then another 20 minutes is FAR better
than an hour of staring at a book)

12. Don’t study in the WRONG place!

13. 90% of what we read, hear, see, say and do!
When we revise we remember:
20% of what we read
30% of what we hear
40% of what we see
50% of what we say
60% of what we do
90% of what we read, hear, see, say and do!

15. Spider diagrams RB LIGHT RAYS REFLECTED RAY REFRACTIVE INDEX DIVERGING
CONVERGING
REFRACTION
MAGNIFICATION
REFLECTED RAY
INCIDENT RAY RB

16. Shape Use Spider Diagrams
Revision Technique – What can I do to help me remember?
Size
Shape
Shape
Size
Size
Size to show importance
Shape
Shape
Use Spider Diagrams
Easy to read LB
And for emphasis use….
Colour

17. Revision Technique – What can I do to help me remember?
It’s no co-incidence that the BBC revision website is called “Bitesize” !
Break work down into small sections – they’re easier to handle
Highlight keywords in your notes so they are easier to spot !
Highlight
Colour code your notes to highlight different themes !
Colour code LB

18. Be Imaginative Revision Technique – What can I do to help me remember?
Get together with 3 or 4 friends
Record yourself reading your notes out loud
Each create a PowerPoint on a different topic
Play it back whilst relaxing or doing other things
Get together on MSN with 3 or 4 friends
Swap Power Points
Be Imaginative
One asks questions on a topic – the others see who can answer first RB

19. Revision Technique – What can I do to help me remember?
Build a REVISION WALL !
Be Imaginative RB

20. Example
Every subject has a page like this one explaining what will be in the exam, what to revise and where to get extra help. LB

21. Why not make your own Revision Podcast(s)?
1. Download Audacity Software
2. Obtain a Microphone
3. Plan what you are going to do!
4. Start recording
5. Broadcast to the world!
More information: RB

22. Videos for GCSE Revision… RB

23. Walk n’Talk
You can also use different rooms in the house to represent different ideas
toilet
my bedroom
main bedroom
kitchen
lounge
To learn the ideas walk around the room or house, looking at the points you have written. Say them out loud; point to each piece as you speak. Use lots of arm movements RB

24. Chain image-First person narrative-Time shifts
Book mark
Glance at the bookmark each time you start and finish your leisure reading.
Great
Expectations
- Dickens
Make a bookmark with important information written on it and keep it in a magazine or book that you are reading for pleasure.
PLOT
Pip’s journey to maturity
CHARACTER
Pip - Joe-Magwitch - Estella - Miss H
THEME
Love-Growing up Ambition-Class
STYLE
Chain image-First person narrative-Time shifts RB

25. Time Line LB 1915 1916 1917 June Flanders Offensive
1914 August 4
Britain declares war on Germany
1915
1916
1917 June Flanders Offensive
1918 November 11 Armistice signed
April-May
2nd Battle of Ypres
July-Nov Battle of the Somme
September
Battle of the Marne
October Victory at Passchendale
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918 LB

26. Use a Flow Chart
Food
Digestion
Nutrition
Energy LB

27. Revising with mind mapsLB

28. EATING TO BEAT STRESS DO Eat Breakfast
Keep hydrated (DRINK WATER while thinking)
EAT! Little and often can be easier for a stressed stomach
Eat brain food - Omega 3 Oils (found in fish)
Keep protein intake up
Eat five portions of fruit & veg a day

29. The importance of breakfast