1. Starter: https://prezi.com/myshoxmh1uwv/revision-skills/
Revision
Starter:

2. Revision Read through your books
If you do not understand something ask somebody.
Choose the memory tricks that work best for you
Create posters to help you to organise information
Create cards with key points and practice
Use past papers to practise answering
questions
FREAK OUT!

3. Positive Thinking – I CAN do this!
This is a chance to show everything I have learned
Positive
Thinking
This is my chance to achieve
I am capable of doing very well in this exam
I deserve to do well, because I have worked hard
I know what is expected of me in this exam
I am prepared

4. How? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjh10kj9Y64 Exam Stress:

5. Brainstorm
Brainstorm is like a giant Spider’s Web with all the ideas around it. The spider (or main idea) is in the middle and everything is around it.

6. Power notes
This is breaking up a big piece of information into smaller chunks rather like steps in a ladder. It can be used for numbers and words.
 Try to remember this by breaking it up into chunks:
The average person can take in four numbers or words at a time, can concentrate on revision for a maximum of 45 minutes at a time and remembers information best shortly before bedtime.
Chunked:
Remember 4 words/numbers at a time
Revision max 45 mins.
Remember best before bedtime

7. Acrostic method
Mnemonics help you to remember by using short words that stand for something to help you.
Here is a Mnemonic for REVISION.
Rest
Exercise
Variety
Imagination
Structure
Individual
Ongoing
Not too long

8. Flash cards
Two ways to practice with cards: 1. Put the answers on the back, but you will need to remember more at once before you check OR 2. Use a piece of paper and move down to reveal answers as you guess the contents. These techniques are very useful for checking that you know key facts.

9. Practice
QUIZZES
PAST PAPERS

10. Story
Loci is the memory trick of memory masters. It involves thinking about a journey that you know well and the landmarks along the way. You then add in images to help you remember information. (They do not have to be famous, but things that you notice as you go by.)

11. Taking a journey from Moor Bridge to Holgate
1. On the bridge itself you see a huge book 2. You reach the large roundabout and see your teachers, your last English lesson and the person that sits next to you in class. 3. You see the petrol station on left and there stand the characters within of mice and men 4. On a billboard on the fence of Hucknall town fc you see a huge poster with your revision on it. 5. As you walk into the gate you see a huge pile of revision cards. 6. When you arrive into the canteen you see test papers set out for you on all the tables.

13. Brain Friendly Revision My Amazing Memory
listen to these words and try to remember as many as possible.
Now lets see how many you have remembered? Which words did you remember? – let’s hear as many of them as you can remember.
(Copy and print out).
TEACHERS INSTRUCTIONS: Sit quietly and listen to these words. You must not interrupt.
I am going to ask you to remember as many as possible
I will only read the list once
1. Car
2. Honesty
3. Chips
4. Black
5. Computer
6. School
7. The
8. Green
9. CD
10. Bicycle
11. Stereophonic
12. Revenge
13. Fish
14. Teacher
15. Salt
16. The
17. Garden
18. Cart
19. Washing
20. Hate
21. Calculator
22. Yellow
23. Box
24. Desk
25. Love
26. The
27. Tape
28. Floor
29. Plane
30. Red
31. The
32. Playground
33. Vinegar
34. Dinosaur
35. Pen
36. Water
37. Exam
38. Purple
39. Peas
40. Red
OK– you now have three minutes to see how many of those words you can remember. This is not a test, it doesn’t matter how many you can remember, just see how you get on.
Play slow Baroque music while the students remember the words

14. Brain Friendly Revision
You remember the words at the beginning and at the end, it’s the ones in the middle that get lost
– why?
It helps to make categories of words in your mind – colours, modes of transport, moods etc.
It helps to make links or associations – fish, chips, peas, salt and vinegar
It helps if words are repeated – e.g. ‘the’
Some words stand out
Some words have strong emotion attached to them, e.g. ‘exams’

15. Brain Friendly Revision
OK, now we are going to try this again and this time try to focus on listening for categories and see how many you can remember this time. I can tell you there are four categories of words in this list.
(Copy and print out).
TEACHERS INSTRUCTIONS: The new list of words to remember
1. Rice
2. Church
3. fifty
4. Plane
5. Five
6 Chips
7. Hot air balloon
8. Pizza
9. Fifteen
10. Curry
11. Bicycle
12. University
13. Burgers
14. Yacht
15. Biscuits
16. Ten
17. Cinema
18. Train
19. Yoghurt
20. Hovercraft
21. Restaurant
22. Twenty-five
23. School
24. Castle
25. Cheese
26. Rollerblades
27. bus
28. Shop
29. Butter
30. House
31. Twenty
32. Scooter
33. Eggs
34. Lighthouse
35. Car
36. Hospital
37. Forty -five
38. Thirty
39. Thirty-five
40. Forty
Now spend time seeing how many remembered more than last time

16. Top tips Establish a routine and stick to it Start revising now
Take breaks, work in 20 minute slots

17. Attempt exam questions
Build in variety
Don’t become isolated
Don’t panic

18. Relax and always get enough sleep
Decide what works best for you and stick to it
Do your best

19. What kind of person are you?
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! They will work well later in the day
Just remember that, no matter when you revise, you need to go to bed at a sensible time and be able to get to sleep.
It may be that you have to read a fiction book, watch television or have a bath before you go to bed to get a good night’s sleep
Night owls will do their best revision in the evenings

20. There are many ways to revise Choose the right way for you!
You have a particular learning style and you should revise using the techniques that will be best for your learning style
Complete the quiz and identify what kind of learner you are.
It is best if you try to use a combination of ideas though from all learning styles to give you a balance

22. Visual Learners: Maps Posters Charts Spider diagrams Cartoons
Summary notes
Mental pictures
Mind maps

24. Kinesthetic Learners:
Walk ‘n’ talk
Draw cartoons
Posters & storyboards
Make a model
Role play/drama
Make a mind map
Write a story
Annotate diagrams
Make cue/flash cards

26. Exchange ideas with your friends Play quiet, relaxing background music
Auditory Learners:
Record ideas on tape
Say keywords aloud
Tell another person
Make a presentation
Get someone to test you
Exchange ideas with your friends
Play quiet, relaxing background music

27. Break it down... Science Biology topics Living organisms
Nutrition, digestion and excretion
Respiration and gas exchange
Health and disease
Reproduction
Ecosystems and habitats
Inheritance and genetics
Evolution
Humans and the environment
Nerves and hormones
Transport
Lungs and health
The impact of exercise
Exercise has immediate effects on the respiratory system.
Science
1. Biology
2. Chemistry
3. Physics

28. Spend time making a thorough revision timetable and STICK TO IT
How to Revise…
MON
TUES
WEDS
THURS
FRI
SAT
SUN
Morning
SCHOOL
HIST
- WW2
FRENCH
- writing
Afternoon
RELAX
RECAP
Evening
MATHS - algebra
ENG
– poems
BIOL
- nerves
– algebra
- poems
CHEM
– salt
- salt
Create a revision timetable
Spend time making a thorough revision timetable and STICK TO IT

29. SUMMARY… Positive attitude
Prepare a thorough revision timetable and STICK TO IT
Be honest with yourself and plan in relaxation as part of your timetable
Work for 25 minutes and take 5 minute breaks
Use a variety of revision tools and techniques