Revision

I know it is quite a broad topic. How should I revise? Methods? I'm in year 10 and I want to prepare for my GCSE's early so I can get a head start. My goal is to get 8's and 9's in all my subjects (Geography, Spanish, Maths, PE, the 3 sciences, English, Philosophy,) and I was trying practice questions because my teacher recommended it for me but I just wanted some more views on the topic of 'how to revise'. Thanks!

Well done for opting to get a head start on preparation! It makes it so much easier in the long run if you begin to equip yourself now. Do make sure you don't burn yourself out though - little and often will pay off far more than slugging through hours and losing all motivation early on.

What I would say for year 10 is to make sure you have all the revision resources and methods set up for you so that year 11 isn't a mad rush to get organised. For example, I made flashcard sets on quizlet for all my topics to combine class and textbook notes into a central revision point.

The most important thing when revising is that you are using active rather than passive methods, so don't waste time rewriting notes or highlighting them. Always try to use active recall, which means testing yourself on information. So for example, making flashcards on all the information you will need for a topic, and testing yourself to learn it. That way, you practice retrieving the information as you would need to for an exam. Then, try exam questions to apply what you've learnt.

If you don't like flashcards (I personally found them really helpful), you could try methods like blurting, which is where you write out everything you can think of about a particular topic on a piece of paper without any notes, and then go back through your notes to see what you missed or got wrong. This is really useful for developing ideas when revising English literature.

For maths, the best advice is always to do as much question practice as possible - you will quickly find that a lot of the exam questions follow a very similar structure.

Always try and revise thoroughly for topic tests and mocks, as this will make revision for the real exams much easier and less daunting. The more you revise a particular subject, the more easily the information will come back to you the next time you revise.

I have been making flash cards on actual card rather than making them on Quizlet, but do you think that making them on Quizlet is more productive for trying to achieve those 7s,8s and 9s?

I know it is quite a broad topic. How should I revise? Methods? I'm in year 10 and I want to prepare for my GCSE's early so I can get a head start. My goal is to get 8's and 9's in all my subjects (Geography, Spanish, Maths, PE, the 3 sciences, English, Philosophy,) and I was trying practice questions because my teacher recommended it for me but I just wanted some more views on the topic of 'how to revise'. Thanks!