1. Flash Cards This revision tool is ideal when you need to remember vocabulary, specific terminology, statistics or short facts.

2. In pairs, A and B. Read through both sides of the cards together. Read through four/five sets of cards. When the card returns back to you, test each other.

3. When learning vocabulary or terminology, you might find it most effective to simply write one word clearly on each card. If you are jotting down more information, be sure to keep things as simple and as clear as possible.

4. Create a flash card based on the awarding of the Victoria Cross

5. A soldier killed protecting his comrades in Afghanistan is to be awarded the Victoria Cross - the UK's top bravery medal. Lance Corporal James Ashworth's courage was hailed as "beyond words" by friends who served with him until his death last June. The 23-year-old died in a grenade attack during a fierce battle with the Taliban in Helmand's Nahr-e Saraj district. He was on foot patrol and battling his way through compounds against enemy fighters when he was fatally wounded. The cross was first bestowed during the Crimean War. It is expected that the rare VC award to the soldier from Kettering, Northamptonshire, will be officially announced later this month. The VC has been awarded 10 times to British soldiers since World War Two and only once for bravery in Afghanistan. The previous recipient of the VC in Afghanistan was 29-year-old Corporal Bryan Budd of 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, who died when he single-handedly stormed a Taliban position in Sangin in 2006. The last living recipient was L/Cpl Johnson Beharry of 1st Battalion the Prince of Wales's Royal Regiment, who twice saved the lives of colleagues under enemy fire in Iraq in 2004. The medal is the British military's highest bravery award and was first bestowed on troops during the Crimean War in 1854-55.

6. Acronyms The term acronym is the name for a word or phrase from the first letters of each word in a series of words

7. Examples Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain Order of colours in the rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) My Very Easy Method: Just Set Up Nine Planets The order of planets in average distance from the Sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)

8. Examples Some Officers Have Curly Auburn Hair To Offer Attraction Pythagoras theorem Sin = opposite/hypotenuse Cosin = Adjacent/hypotenuse Tangent = Opposite/adjacent Never Eat Shredded Wheat Points of the compass in order North, South, East and West

9. Examples Sneezy Sleepy Dopey Doc Happy Bashful Grumpy Your turn Think up an acronym for the seven dwarfs