Live Life Team
Once you have got your head around the fact that revision time is for revision and not for daytime television or the internet, you need to devise your own tactics and find some methods that work for you.
There are a few well-known ways to revise, and the best thing is to pick the one that appeals most to you. One key thing that everyone revising should do is to make themselves a timetable. Whether you choose to keep the one from school (so if you had English on a Monday morning, you revise English on a Monday morning) or whether you want to write one that suits you doesn’t matter, just make sure you have one, and most importantly –stick to it!
One method for revision is to make flash cards. You can buy a box with lots of small cards in it or you can make your own, but basically for each subject use a card to write key information – a formula, a date, an explanation or anything you feel you need to remember. Making the cards helps you learn the facts, and then you have a portable revision pack that you can take everywhere and flip through whenever you get five minutes.
Another way to revise is to use a highlighter pen and sticky notes to mark textbooks in the most important places; however this only works if you have books you are allowed to write on, which isn’t normal. It also means you aren’t rewriting information, which helps memory.
