Revision

What you just wrote sounds perfecto It varies with me, sometimes I do maybe 3 hours a day + on the weekend i do quite alot. I spend the whole day (with breaks breaks breaks) practically studying! Your plan sounds pretty good hehe

What you just wrote sounds perfecto It varies with me, sometimes I do maybe 3 hours a day + on the weekend i do quite alot. I spend the whole day (with breaks breaks breaks) practically studying! Your plan sounds pretty good hehe

Lol feel free to steal it!

Haven't started yet, have some French coursework to get out of the way first. Probably start sometime during the Easter holidays, but some of the subjects I'm doing (like French) are quite difficult to revise for.

We have an assembly today (year 13), that he told us we should start studying now. Most of us havn't.

i mite start my revision durin the easter holidays

I look through my notes on recent work occassionaly to understand them better, but I'll most likely start my proper revision around Easter.
I have still so much to actually learn...

Fcccckkkkkinnnnnn helllllllllllllllll. 5 hours a night OMG! You must be a very driven individual! But I think maybe 5 hrs per night at this stage is a bit too hardcore, an hour would be fine! It's still a fair while till exams, 5 hours a day is the time you should be spending when it comes to easter/study leave.

Last year I started 2 weeks before - too late but I still got the grades. I'm starting at Easter this year, just to avoid the stress of cramming later on.

Another reason why you shouldn't be doing 5 hrs a night - you'll finish too early, which is never a good thing, its good to feel under pressure towards exams (for me anyway) - I get more done. Like for Psychology AS I did lots of revision in the 2 weeks prior to the exam, but crammed like mad the day before. It works for me.

how do you all revise; i can't really find the right way for me. I've tried timetables but never stick to it. Ive tried doing reading...lose it. And i can't get the motivation to do any revision because whatever i do is unsuccessful. The only think that works for me is short term revision, like the days preceding the exams...anyone got a better strategy for someone with a short term memory?

PK

Timetables have never really worked for me either, so what I do is just plan it roughly so I know what I'm doing. For example, if I know I need to 1.5 hours of revision in an evening, I'll do it in 3 30-minute sessions and decide on the subject and topics, but I won't actually commit myself to a certain time. That way, if you have dinner earlier/later than usual, have more/less homework than usual or there's a TV programme you want to watch at a certain time, it doesn't screw up your revision. I don't think just reading actually works; you need to be active. You could try reading a paragraph and then writing down what you can remember as bullet points, a spider diagram or something like that. Some people find it helps to stick these on the wall where you'll see them regularly, or if you learn by hearing things, you could record your notes on a tape and play it back. Revision cards are good for making sure you pick out the key points and you could try making up a set of questions for each topic.