1. Skills 2 learn
Exams

2. Feeling stressed? How much does stress affect you?
How much are u prepred to admit?
Does stressss stop u from starting any type of revision?
Stress affects all of us in very different ways
Which one of these are u?

3. We’ll be fine, leave it till later!
Human nature-the 4F’s.
Not doing it! I give up.
You can’t make me!
I’m outta here!
We’ll be fine, leave it till later!
Flight
Fright
Fight
Flock
If you’re put under pressure which one are u?
How do you cope with this
Knowing the problem is half of the battle but how can you overcome it?

4. How do you eat an elephant?
How do you eat an elephant? In small parts over a long period of time and mix the nasty bits with the nice ones.
The same goes for revision
On to confidence charts

5. Memory mapping
A great skill for remembering lots of facts about a topic
Gets everything you know about a topic on one piece of paper
Condenses information as you can use words and pictures
Is personal to you and your memory
Can be stuck on your bedroom walls or even your ceiling!

6. Revision mind map A specific place to work 50 mins No interruptions
Space
Time
Planned
Any help
Revision mind map
Communication
Any problems
you have
No Junk
food
Healthy eating
Can’t do it
Stress control
Regular
Food breaks
Plenty of water
Plan treats
The ideas at the end of the coloured lines come on at the end
Invite friends
round to your house
Plan rest
Avoid distractions
Plan TV time

7. Paired activity Create a mind map about your partner
Find out about their family, hobbies, likes and dislikes (food, music), style, ambition
Don’t forget to use colours, pictures and words to record your research.

8. Let your fingers do the walking!
Talk yourself through what you’ve found out.
We need ana activity to go with this will provide the resouce. Simply be a list of words to learn on a page which they will have to memorise by walking the fingers over the page.

9. Test yourselves! Cover your sheets up
Show your partner how much you remember.
Imagine that your memory map is in front of you
Get those fingers walking!

10. Are you a post-it person?
Sort out your sequence and get sticking
On the stairs
On doors
Round the kitchen
Round your room or the bathroom
Around the mirror for when you’re perfecting that hair!
Good for learning your novel, key facts about a topic (history), or steps in a maths solution

11. Revision Technique
Index Cards
This ia used a lot in science

12. Index cards are a really great tool for revision
There are two main ways to use index cards to help you revise:
Summarise key information on the cards. Use a different card for each topic and colour code the facts
Write a question on one side of the card and the answer on the reverse. Test yourself or get a friend / parent to test your knowledge!

13. Summarising Information
Topic: Magnetic Attraction
A magnet only attracts certain metals. This attraction is called magnetic attraction.

14. 2. Question and Answer Topic: Magnetic Attraction Question 1.
How can you block magnetism?
(Answer on the reverse of the card:
By putting a piece of magnetic material in the way.)

15. Teamwork Share the load Get together a team of up to 4 people
Give each person a topic to revise
Each person creates index cards or Q and A cards for their topic
Get together and teach it to each.
Always give each other a test to see what still needs to be learnt.

16. Test out your teamwork! On the next slide is a short poem.
It has eight lines in two stanzas.
Your team needs to learn it.
You will have one and a half minutes to look at it.
You have one minute to organise your team!

18. Uncle Ben was not a hen, But when he laid an egg, He did it quite professionally By lifting up a leg. He studied it and prodded it, And said, “I’m mystified.” And then he took it to the kitchen, Where he had it, fried.

19. Use your skills to avoid stress
Memory mapping (V and K)
Index cards (V, K and team)
Post-its (V and K)
Use audacity to record onto MP3 (A)
Teach someone else (A and team)