Brumby Mentor Team

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Brumby Mentor Team

• Revision and Exam Techniques

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Parents Guide

• There is information on this website for students
  to help them with revision and exam preparation.
• This parents section contains much of the same
  information but with added information about how
  you can help you child during the run up to exams
  and the time when they are taking them. We hope
  that you find it helpful.

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Time Management

• Good preparation is vital
• Reduces stress and worry
• Dont overload
• Dont mix up subjects
• Plan frequent breaks
• Plan time with friends
• Allow time for exercise and fun
• Stick to your plans!!!

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Know your brain!!!To get the most out of your
brain, you need to try to use both sides of your
brain at the same time.E.G. Turn a list of
points into a mind map.

• Right
• Imagination
• Creative
• Intuition
• Likes music and pictures

• Left
• Analytical
• Logical
• Likes reading and writing
• Listening
• Words and numbers

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Concentration Spans

• Concentration spans for teenagers is roughly your
  age plus one min
• Concentration Span Chronological age one
  minute
• This is only a guide but useful to keep in mind
  when working and revising. You may think you are
  getting a lot done by revising for two hours at a
  time but how much will you actually remember?

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Learning Styles

• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinaesthetic

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Visual

• Visual learners remember a picture of what they
  saw in their head
• Effective revision techniques for visual learners
• Mind Maps
• Creating pictures/diagrams
• Using timelines for remembering dates
• Using pictures, diagrams, charts, film, video
• Using colours or shapes use coloured paper or
  draw shapes round notes to remember them

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Auditory

• Auditory learners remember sounds
• Effective revision techniques for auditory
  learners
• Hearing a presentation or explanation
• Say things out loud when going through notes
• Making up rhymes and songs
• Playing music and associating songs with the
  subject that you were revising at the time
• Using a tape recorder

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Kinaesthetic

• Kinaesthetic learners remember muscle movements
  they made when they did something.
• Effective revision techniques for kinaesthetic
  learners
• Highlighting/underlining key points
• Sticking post-it notes around the room with key
  points/questions on for revision
• Making a jigsaw (see next slide)

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Kinaesthetic Jigsaw
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Which one are you?

• Take our test to find out what kind of learner
  you are to get the most out of your revision
  time.
• W\Mentor Paperwork\What is your learning
  style.doc

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To conclude

• You can get an exam and revision preparation pack
  from the Learning Mentors. In this you will find
  exam and revision techniques in more detail to
  help you.
• We hope that this information has been helpful to
  you and we wish you every success with your exams
  and the future.