1. Revision Guidance Evening
Summer 2016

9. Revision
For Parents 26 april 2016

10. Just ask google

11. Think, Pair, Share
What revision techniques do you know?

12. Did you get any of these? Flash cards Read and memorise
Spider diagrams
Working with friends
Keywords
Summary notes

13. Don’t leave it to the last minute

14. Worst 3 techniques
From:

15. Summarising Texts

16. Re-reading

17. Highlighting

18. Why are they so bad? Low challenge. Little thinking required.
Makes you think that you are ‘doing something’

19. Top 5 techniques
From:

20. 1. Practice Testing Use flash cards
Ask friends and relatives to test you
Work through past papers
Create quizzes

21. 2. Distributed Practice Space out your revision
Revisit learned facts regularly
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22. 3. Elaborate Interrogation
Ask WHY something is true.
E.g. why does the area of a circle have an 𝑟 2

23. 4. Self Explanation Create mind-maps
Not to revise from later but to build links, the process of imaginative creation is key
Be creative

25. 5. Interleaved Practice
Revise small chunks of topics and mix them together

26. Time Management

27. Controllable Study Factors
Make a list of all the things that can stop you studying. e.g. tiredness, sickness, tv, facebook, sporting activities etc.
Then split them into two categories, those that you control and those you find hard to control. e.g.
Facebook – can control, how? hide your phone.
Think about all those things you can control and how can you control them; Will you allow your grades to suffer because you spent too much time chatting on-line?

29. Any Questions