2015
The next 5 months
“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the
thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
Exam Preparation
•Where?
•When?
•How often?
•How?!
SAM Learning For Revision
• Centre ID:
BS15JC1
• User ID: ddmmyy followed by initials
eg: 170297HJ
• Password:
as above
Pick a subject to work through...
Revision Timetable
http://getrevising.co.uk/timetable/intro
Organising your notes
Technique: Subdivide and Minimise
Organising your notes
Technique: Subdivide and Minimise
Skim quickly through the notes to be revised to prime your brain,
reminding you of the work you did in class.
Subject websites:
• Tech – http://www.technologystudent.com/
• Italian – http://www.oneworlditaliano.com/
• French – http://www.francaisfacile.com/
• Languages (general) – http://www.memrise.com/
• PE – http://www.brianmac.co.uk/index.htm
• Geography – http://www.coolgeography.co.uk/
• Maths – http://www.mymaths.co.uk/ - especially the booster packs
• Business Studies – http://www.businessstudiesonline.co.uk/
• General – http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/levels/z98jmp3
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Organising your notes
Technique: Subdivide and Minimise
Skim quickly through the notes to be revised to prime your brain,
reminding you of the work you did in class.
Now go through the notes again – this time separating the work into
sections with headings on different pieces of paper.
Organising your notes
Technique: Subdivide and Minimise
Skim quickly through the notes to be revised to prime your brain,
reminding you of the work you did in class.
Now go through the notes again – this time separating the work into
sections with headings on different pieces of paper.
Make brief notes on each subject under the headings
Organising your notes
Technique: Subdivide and Minimise
Skim quickly through the notes to be revised to prime your brain,
reminding you of the work you did in class.
Now go through the notes again – this time separating the work into
sections with headings on different pieces of paper.
Make brief notes on each subject under the headings
Take a 5 minute break.
Organising your notes
Technique: Subdivide and Minimise
Skim quickly through the notes to be revised to prime your brain,
reminding you of the work you did in class.
Now go through the notes again – this time separating the work into
sections with headings on different pieces of paper.
Make brief notes on each subject under the headings
Take a 5 minute break.
Read through the notes highlighting areas of uncertainty.
Organising your notes
Technique: Subdivide and Minimise
Check back to your school notes / revision guide notes and make your
new notes clearer in those areas
Organising your notes
Technique: Subdivide and Minimise
Check back to your school notes / revision guide notes and make your
new notes clearer in those areas.
Shrink the notes. Use one or two key words to summarise each section –
the full information will come rushing back.
Organising your notes
Application: Subdivide and Minimise
Shrink your notes down as you feel comfortable, checking that the
keyword triggers work.
Organising your notes
Application: Subdivide and Minimise
Shrink your notes down as you feel comfortable, checking that the
keyword triggers work.
Your notes might go from this:
Organising your notes
Application: Subdivide and Minimise
Shrink your notes down as you feel comfortable, checking that the
keyword triggers work.
To this:
Organising your notes
Application: Subdivide and Minimise
Shrink your notes down as you feel comfortable, checking that the
keyword triggers work.
To this:
Picture it
Technique: Concept mapping
Picture it
Technique: Concept mapping
Use your notes to write down the main areas or concepts in a topic.
Picture it
Technique: Concept mapping
Use your notes to write down the main areas or concepts in a topic.
Write these as headings on a large sheet of paper turned landscape.
Picture it
Technique: Concept mapping
Use your notes to write down the main areas or concepts in a topic.
Write these as headings on a large sheet of paper turned landscape.
Draw connecting lines between the concepts labelling and explaining
what the links mean.
Picture it
Technique: Concept mapping
Use your notes to write down the main areas or concepts in a topic.
Write these as headings on a large sheet of paper turned landscape.
Draw connecting lines between the concepts labelling and explaining
what the links mean.
Test yourself by making sure that you can explain and understand how
the key areas in the topic link together.
Picture it
Application: Concept mapping
Listen up!
Technique: Revision Playback
Listen up!
Technique: Revision Playback
Use the summary notes you have with the key information and
explanations.
Listen up!
Technique: Revision Playback
Use the summary notes you have with the key information and
explanations.
Recite your notes into an mp3 player whilst playing some relaxing music
in the background.
Listen up!
Technique: Revision Playback
Use the summary notes you have with the key information and
explanations.
Recite your notes into an mp3 player whilst playing some relaxing music
in the background.
Play back your recording, listening carefully to the information.
Listen up!
Technique: Revision Playback
Use the summary notes you have with the key information and
explanations.
Recite your notes into an mp3 player whilst playing some relaxing music
in the background.
Play back your recording, listening carefully to the information.
Listen to the recording regularly allowing the information to become more
and more familiar.
Listen up!
Application: Revision Playback
The hard work of this revision technique is done in the early stages.
Fun with Words
Technique: Quiz Cards
Fun with Words
Technique: Quiz Cards
These pocket sized cards contain short sets of questions with the
answers on the back.
Fun with Words
Technique: Quiz Cards
These pocket sized cards contain short sets of questions with the
answers on the back.
They are easy to carry around and can be used to test yourself when you
have a spare 5 minutes.
Fun with Words
Technique: Quiz Cards
These pocket sized cards contain short sets of questions with the
answers on the back.
They are easy to carry around and can be used to test yourself when you
have a spare 5 minutes.
Producing the cards is actually part of the revision process too!
Fun with Words
Application: Quiz Cards
What information the Periodic Table gives us:
Fun with Words
Application: Quiz Cards
What information the Periodic Table gives us:
The chemical
symbol
23
The mass
number
Na
11
The atomic
number
Fun with Words
Application: Quiz Cards
What information the Periodic Table gives us:
The chemical symbol
- tells us what
element it is
The atomic number =
the number of protons (+) in the atom
as well as the number of electrons (-) orbiting
the nucleus
The mass number =
the number of protons + the number of neutrons
Fun with Words
Technique: Tabloid Headlines
Fun with Words
Technique: Tabloid Headlines
Using silly sentences can be a useful way of remembering lots of useful
information.
Fun with Words
Technique: Tabloid Headlines
Using silly sentences can be a useful way of remembering lots of useful
information.
Remember how you memorized the colours of the rainbow?
Fun with Words
Technique: Tabloid Headlines
Using silly sentences can be a useful way of remembering lots of useful
information.
Remember how you memorized the colours of the rainbow?
Select the keywords from the topic you want to remember in a particular
order.
Fun with Words
Technique: Tabloid Headlines
Using silly sentences can be a useful way of remembering lots of useful
information.
Remember how you memorized the colours of the rainbow?
Select the keywords from the topic you want to remember in a particular
order.
Use the initial of each of these words to make up a silly sentence.
Fun with Words
Technique: Tabloid Headlines
Using silly sentences can be a useful way of remembering lots of useful
information.
Remember how you memorized the colours of the rainbow?
Select the keywords from the topic you want to remember in a particular
order.
Use the initial of each of these words to make up a silly sentence.
Picture the scene that your sentence describes in your mind with the
headline and repeat the sentence.
Fun with Words
Application: Tabloid Headlines
Fun with Words
Application: Tabloid Headlines
Remembering the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Gamma Rays
X-rays
Ultra-violet
Visible
Infra-red
Microwaves
Radio waves
Fun with Words
Application: Tabloid Headlines
Remembering the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Gamma Rays
Golden
X-rays
Xylophone
Ultra-violet
Under
Visible
Vegetables
Infra-red
Impersonates
Microwaves
Musical
Radio waves
Radishes
Something to look forward to…
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Year 11 Prom
The Grange, Winterbourne
Friday 26th June
£35
Payment with reply slip to Mrs Fudge by end
of term 4
• No pay / no reply slip = no go!