1. Time to revise?

2. =Plenty!! The remainder of Year 11 From January 14th
17 weeks till exams
2856 hours
=Plenty!!

3. The Challenge ahead… 17 weeks to prepare for the ‘big event’
17 weeks to get into best brain health
17 weeks to maximise learning/revision in every lesson

4. The Ideal You have A revision schedule A list of topics to revise
All resources required for each subject
Materials to use for revision

5. The ideal student Boosters- Has 8+ hours of sleep per night
Drinks at least 8 glasses of water per day
Has exercise daily
Eats brain boosting foods during the school day
Avoids brain draining foods
Drainers-

6. Have endless capacity. Our amazing brains
Contain 50 billion brain cells.
Have 15 X more cells than there are people on the planet.
Have as many connections as there have been seconds, since dinosaurs walked on earth.
Can grow ,000 branches in every cell.
Potential is limitless- we are thought to use less than 10% in our lifetime
Have endless capacity.

7. Preparation? Getting started….
Gather all resources - set texts/revision guides/materials/web sites
Have topic lists for each subject
Use your exam dates to create a long term schedule – divide them into weeks and plan to be ready for each week.

8. Not in school Week one May 13 th CIDA unit 1 Btech Music unit 1
Cambridge Nat Sports Studies
RS 1
French Listening + Reading
Biology 1 H/F
Chemistry 1 H/F
English Literature 1
French writing
Week three
27th May
Not in school
Week two May 20th
English Lit 2
Geography 1
D + T
Physics 1 H/F
Maths 1 H/F
RS 2 + 3
Week four th 3rd June
History 1+ 2
English Language 1 + 2
Geography 2
Maths 2 H/F
Biology 2
Cambridge National Creative iMedia

9. Freedom!!! Week five June 10 th Geography 3 Maths 3 H/F
Chemistry 2 H/F
Food prep and Nutrition
Physics 2 H/F
Citizenship 1
Week six
June 17th
Citizenship 2
Citizenship 3
Freedom!!!

10. Next steps… You need a short term plan i.e. week by week
Plan around commitments in and out of school
Prioritise subjects e.g. ICT does not have the same amount of content to cover as History or English Literature so you will need fewer slots of ICT and more of History or EL
Try to revise subjects on the day you have them in lessons to keep the loop of learning as strong as possible

11. Assembly English – R + J Study room - Geog case Studies
Week 1
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
registration
Assembly
English – R + J
 English R+ J
Lunch time/day
ICT
Study room -
Geog case Studies
After school
library -Biology
library - Chemistry
English RS
Science
Geography
Maths IT
Geog
Mocks

12. Revise in a brain friendly way
Keep hydrated
Feed your brain – not junk
Revise in a cool, bright space
Ban ‘distractions’ e.g. music, phone, tv
Sit at a desk for best quality revision
Short sharp sessions
Using colour, pattern, shapes, pictures
The more senses you use the better

13. 4 Steps to Revision Success
1. Understand
2. Process
3. Create
4. Revise

14. 4 steps to revision success
Understand –
Process -
For each topic
make sure you
‘get it’
Fill any gaps
Ask questions
Plan to revise what you need to know, not what you already know
you have to put it into your own words as a way of ensuring that you know it well enough to re- use it.
You have to ‘do something’ with it
Use your own techniques to process the information – e.g. chunking, bulleted lists, Mind Maps
Reduce everything down each time

15. 4 steps to revision success
Create -
Practise -
Find as many ways as possible to apply and ‘re-use’ the information. The more senses you involve the stronger your recall will be.
Copying the information out is not an ‘active’ way of re-using it – it is a waste of energy.
Try – creating your own quizzes, games, posters, interviews, revision cards, teaching cards etc
Revision (memorisation)takes place through the thinking processes that occur whilst you are creating the quiz etc.
To keep info in your long term memory so you can recall it for exams, you need to find ways of re- visiting the information and repeating what you know.
For example – doing sections of past papers more than once, doing revision quizzes (on-line ones, the teacher’s, your own, your friends’ etc)

16. Golden rules Use same coloured paper/Post Its
Write in coloured pens – thicker the better.
Supersize your revision! Use wallpaper and leave it up.
Copy egs/qus from text books
Make instructions- write down the steps you need to take to answer a qu – teach someone else
Make revision cards – qu on one side, answer on the other
Listen to Mozart in background
Work in short bursts, frequently.

17. Exam success or failure?
Examiners were asked to identify the most likely cause of students failing an exam.
Which of the following was their top answer?
a) nerves
b) lack of preparation
c) not reading instructions carefully

18. Fail to prepare – prepare to fail!
Answer?
a) nerves
b) lack of preparation
c) not reading instructions carefully
Your performance in exams will be as good as your preparation beforehand.

19. Final message
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”
Franklin Field

20. Be one of those that can boast: ‘I made the time!!!’