Best Revision Strategies

Essay Revision, net BEST REVISION STRATEGIES MAKE A REVISION PLAN: Create a Revision Timetable Balance your subjects Identify key topics Arrange your revision material THREE KEY REVISION METHODS note-taking/ note-making drafting model answers memorising NOTE TAKING/ NOTE MAKING - organise your notes so that they are clear and logically ordered - read them through, underlining and highlighting - devise your own colour coding system - write-out more and more concise versions of your notes MEMORISING - look at your notes for a topic on three or four occasions - predict a page of notes in mind before your look at it you - use the letters of a word, or the initial letters of a phrase, to trigger associations - think of a picture of the topic - last-minute revision of notes is generally helpful DRAFTING MODEL ANSWERS - Analyse the question. Using past exam papers, think about the wording of questions - Generate ideas. You are going to need at least 5 or 6 major points or arguments with which to answer most questions - Think of authors and controversies - Look from other angles - Check for errors and irrelevant points - Write under exam conditions Source: http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/studyskills/assessment_evaluation/ assessment/revision_strategies.html