Year 11 Effective Revision Guide

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Year 11Effective Revision Guide
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Effective revision for a successful future
Effective revision 3 grades per subject
Take the first step and keep going - one step at
a time
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Exam success - revision

• 1) Organise yourself (when, where, what, how)
• 2) Remember the smart way
• 3) Practice answering questions (skills)
• 4) Listen to your teachers write down their
  advice

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Effective Revision

• When? revision timetable
• Where? room, no distractions, no TV etc.
• What? notes, revision guides, past papers,
  E-learning, syllabus
• How? Smart revision study minibreaks
  memory techniques .

• Minutes revision

10 Minutes break / reward
Attention
Break
Break
0min 20min
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Have you got a revision plan?
Rewards
Day off / Light revision
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Effective revision sheet
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E-Learning

• Practice real questions after all that is what
  you need to do in the real exam.
• Recognise vs Recall - Reading notes doesnt help
  much Answering questions does requires
  recall.
• Revise what you dont know! The computer will
  tell you what you got right wrong.

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Your Wonderful Brain

• Your brain remembers unusual / strange things
  e.g. when you walk / drive to school you dont
  remember all the cars or houses you passed. But
  you would remember a giant banana driving down
  the road.
• Your brain is programmed to forget! Fix revision
  in your long term memory otherwise it will be
  lost. Refresh memory after one minute, one hour,
  one day, one week, one month
• Your brain is good at remembering pictures,
  familiar places / people (faces)
• Use stories, mind maps or memory walks to link
  knowledge together you need a way to get back
  to your memories.
• Use the above to remember - link memories to
  pictures strange things happening, link
  knowledge together with stories or journeys,
  refresh your memories.
• Keep your brain hydrated drink water.

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Memory Walks

• Fix memories on a walk from your bedroom around
  your house, or a journey to school, or in places
  around your room
• Have a conversation with a different person in
  each room if it helps.
• Think about where you place the memory, imagine
  something unusual happening.
• Why do this? by taking the walk in your mind
  you will remember what memories you stored on
  your walk. You know where to start to retrieve
  your memories

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• Memory Cards
• Take about 20 rectangles of paper / card
• Write question on front, answer on back.
• Scatter across table / floor question side up.
• Pick up one and try to answer.
• Turn over to the answer - if right put it in a
  pile, if wrong put it back on the floor / table.
• Repeat
• This system will require you to answer questions
  you didnt get right again. Therefore you will
  get more practice at what you dont know.

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• Memory stickers
• Place post it notes around the house.
• Each time you pass them. Try to remember what is
  on them and then check if you are right.

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Memory Tennis

• Memory tennis with a friend
• Chose a topic
• Then take it in turns to give an idea / fact
  about the topic
• The person who fails to give an answer within 5
  seconds loses a point.

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Mind maps A good way to summarise and remember
the main points of a topic.

• Talk through mind maps / notes (with a friend if
  you like) if you can say a sentence, you can
  write a sentence.
• Turn it face down see what you can remember.
  Turn it over and see what you forgot. Try again.

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• Notes from Bitesize on Changes to Earth
  Atmosphere
• Crust mantle core
• Plate tectonics continental drift
• Evidence continents fit together, volcanoes /
  earth quakes on joins
• Atmosphere same 200 million years Nitrogen
  78, Oxygen 21 0.9 Argon little CO2
  other noble gases.
• Oxygen in air Known volume of air over
  heated copper 2Cu O2 2CuO - measure
  reduction in volume of air after cooling.
• Noble gases Helium balloons, neon neon
  signs, argon light bulbs, Krypton lasers
• Evolution of atmosphere gases water vapour
  given out by volcanos, water vapour condenses to
  give oceans, plants photosynthesis -gt Co2 -gt 02
  Co2 disolves in the ocean lock into fossil
  fuels (Coal Oil)
• How can we remember all of this? You can use any
  of the techniques mentioned mind maps, memory
  cards, post it notes, memory walk stories, do an
  E-learning test or any other way that suits you.

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A memory walk example imagination this Unusual
tea party in your bedroom pool with floating
plates each plate has a continent painted on it
Europe, Africa etc (plate tectonics) . The
plates drift around the pool (Continental drift).
Each time they float into each other the room
shakes and fire leaps from the plates that touch
(earthquakes volcanoes). On each plate is a
crusty roll, within the roll is a man who has a
apple core in his mouth! (Crust mantle
core) Go to the next room in your mind. Imagine
200 million dinosaurs squeezed into that room
breathing the same air as you. (Atmosphere
unchanged for 200 million years). You meet a
lovely young girl whos got dangly ear rings in
the shape of an O and a glass of champagne in
their hand he she is celebrating their 21st
birthday (21 oxygen) . An old man walks into the
room using a giant N as a zimmer frame and he
says Im certainly late. You say Youre not
late He says I said I am seventy eight.
(Nitrogen 78) You look down and you see a little
elf 0.9 written on his shirt. He picks up his
wand, points it are you and says you are gone
(Argon 0.9) you disappear and appear in the
next room. The Argon elf is trapped in a glowing
lightbulb. Another elf is hanging onto a floating
balloon chuckling He, He, He, Helium). A Neon
sign saying Noble gases is flashing on the
wall. Superman bursts through the door, shoots
lasers out of his eyes and shouts I come from
the plant Krypton. (Helps to remember what each
Noble gas is used for) And so on The more
strange / unusual the better your brain
remembers strange things better than normal
things. . Retell the story in your mind several
times and check if you remember all the important
things you are trying to remember.
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Before the Exam or Revision

• Wake up both sides of your brain before the exam
  use one finger on each hand and write a message
  with the right hand and mirror writing with the
  left.
• Relax Tense muscles groups in turn for ten
  seconds and then relax. Massage your ears! Breath
  deeply by expanding your stomach and then breath
  out slowly releasing the stress do this several
  times until calm. (You remember more when you are
  calm)
• Increase blood flow to the brain (especially when
  your mind goes blank) Put your thumb and index
  finger under your collar bones and massage the
  hollows. Rub above your eyebrows.
• Gently think through your memory walks etc.
  dont panic if you cant remember your brain
  will work on it without you even thinking about.
  (The same if you cant do a question mark the
  question, move on and come back later)

Wake up
Wake up
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Why should I bother?
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• Less than 5A-C GCSEs 10,000 (ave)
• 5A-C GCSEs A Levels - 20,000 (ave)
• University degree - 30,000 (ave)
• 10,000 X 50 years 500,000 ½ million
• 20,000 X 50 years 1,000,000 1 million

Intermediate qualification (Extra year)
Much greater choice of jobs
ECDL Adult Literacy Numeracy.
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Some think about climbing the mountain and never
take the first step. Some take the first step and
never think. Neither reach the mountain top.
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Your altitude in life is primarily determined by
your attitude to life