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The document provides various exam revision tips and techniques, including creating a revision timetable, practicing exam questions, collaborating with peers, taking regular breaks, and using revision flashcards. It also emphasizes the importance of managing exam stress through self-care, maintaining a routine, and seeking support from friends or trusted adults. Additionally, it offers memory tips such as repetition, chunking, and active recall to enhance learning and retention.

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Exam Revision Tips

The document provides various exam revision tips and techniques, including creating a revision timetable, practicing exam questions, collaborating with peers, taking regular breaks, and using revision flashcards. It also emphasizes the importance of managing exam stress through self-care, maintaining a routine, and seeking support from friends or trusted adults. Additionally, it offers memory tips such as repetition, chunking, and active recall to enhance learning and retention.

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EXAM REVISION

TIPS AND TECHNIQUES


METHOD EXPLANATION

Getting organised helps you to focus and motivates you. It also helps you
Revision timetable to identify how much time you need to spend on different areas. It is a
great starting point from which to build.

You don’t need to endlessly practise papers – although some wholepaper


practice is good. Break the paper down into question types and think
Exam practice
about what skills/content is repeatedly required for those types of
questions. Start with the ones you find most difficult.

Revising together does not mean just socializing, but it can be really
productive to revise with a friend and share notes/tips/ideas. Test each
Collaborate
other orally on your knowledge and peer assess each other’s written
answers.

This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t do anything at all, but you should
give your brain a chance to reboot. Make sure you have healthy snacks,
Take regular breaks
water and get plenty of exercise in between revision sessions – prepare
these beforehand so you don’t waste time throughout the day.

Make a set of revision flashcards – these could have a term on the front
Revision flashcards:
with a definition on the back. You could also use these for sequencing,
key facts/
learning processes, quotations or for essay planning. They are
quotations/terms
multipurpose and will be really useful.

Reading your notes endlessly isn’t the way to do it. Create mind maps,
Don’t just read notes
flashcards, written responses and other visual aids.

Decide on the key things you want to know by the time you have finished
revising that topic and create a test before you begin. You can then use
Test yourself
this test to ensure your revision has been successful. If it hasn’t, try some
new techniques for this topic

Spreading your revision out over time (rather than rushed at the last
Spread it out minute) is proven to be far more successful. Spend a small amount of
time on everything you have to learn and repeat regularly.
MANAGING
EXAM STRESS

TALK TO REACH OUT TO


SOMEONE FRIENDS
Speak to a parent, teacher or trusted adult
If you have friends who are also taking exams, they
about how you are feeling. You could also
phone a helpline if you would prefer to will likely be experiencing many of the same thoughts
speak to someone anonymously. They will and feelings. Talking to your friends can make you
be able to provide support and feel less alone and help ease feelings of anxiousness.
encouragement and offer a different Arranging revision sessions together can allow you to
perspective to help you find practical maintain some social interaction while also helping
solutions to cope with how you are feeling. you to prepare for your exams.

TAKE CARE
SET
BOUNDARIES OF YOURSELF
Make sure you are eating properly –
including healthy snacks to maintain
Although talking to others in the same situation as
energy levels while revising – and drink
you can sometimes be helpful, it can also be a
plenty of water. Exercise can help to clear
source of more stress. Avoid surrounding yourself
your mind and relieve stress, so take some
with people that constantly talk about the exams
time to go for a walk, cycle or swim, or
and how stressed they are, as this is likely to make
take part in a group activity such as
you feel more overwhelmed.
football or netball.

GET ENOUGH STICK TO A


SLEEP ROUTINE
Getting enough sleep is important in allowing your
mind to rest and reset – most young people need Having a regular routine can help to relieve feelings
between 8 and 10 hours of sleep a night. Don’t stay of stress and anxiousness. Try to make sure that
up too late, and find calming activities to help you
you go to bed and wake up at the same time every
wind down before bed. Avoid stimulants such as
caffeine and sugar too late in the day as, although you
day, and incorporate things that you enjoy within
might feel more energised in the short-term, these your daily routine. This can include watching TV,
can increase feelings of anxiousness and make it playing games or socialising with friends – it doesn’t
more difficult to get to sleep. all have to be about revision!
ASSOCIATION
This technique involves connecting new
REPETITION information to something you already
know. This can be done by creating
connections between the new
VISUALISATION
Repeating information several information and existing memories, such Visualising information can make
as making a mental image, using a
times helps to encode it into mnemonic device, or connecting the it easier to remember. This can
your memory, making it easier to information to an experience. For involve creating mental images of
recall later. This can be as simple example, “Every Good Boy Deserves the information, such as
as saying something out loud, Fudge” can be used to remember the imagining a picture in your mind
musical notes on the lines of the treble
writing it down, or reviewing it clef: E, G, B, D, F. or using diagrams and images to
multiple times. help you understand and
remember complex information.

MEMORY TIPS

CHUNKING ACTIVE RECALL


Chunking involves breaking down Practising recalling
complex information into FOCUS AND information from memory,
smaller, manageable parts. For
example, instead of trying to CONCENTRATION rather than just passively
reading it, can help to
remember a long string of Paying attention to the strengthen your memory. This
numbers, you could chunk them information you are trying to can involve quizzing yourself,
into smaller groups, such as remember will help to encode it writing down what you
phone numbers or credit card into your memory. Distractions, remember, or teaching the
numbers. such as multitasking or being in a information to someone else.
noisy environment, can make it
more difficult to concentrate and
remember information.
HOW ARE YOU FEELING
TODAY?

Your feelings matter, and it's okay to talk about them.


Our School Counsellor is available to help.

Ms Carmen
School Counsellor
Assistant Boarding Parent
[email protected]

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