Revising for Yr11 GCSE's

[Karma]

WEll am going into Yr 11, in a few days and I need tips on revising and when about starting to revise in the year? and other useful infomation you dude's can give me, Cheers :)

[Concentric2]

tbh the best revision you can do is pay attention in lessons and do the homework/practice.

[luke-p]

Pay 100% attention
Put in all the effort
Do all homework
Start revising your work months before your exams
Past papers <-- They were the most useful to me
Make mnemonics for tricky things, maybe science... One I made was

Some Really Silly Rabbit Met Emma Rooney [For science]

Meaning:

Stimulus Receptor Sensory neurone Relay neurone Motor neurone Effector Response - That was for the relay arc
Good luck, you will get what you deserve :)

[Ramones]

Iv'e just been in year 11 and seriously, everyone makes such a big deal out of it and i don't think it was that big. They told us to start revising at christmas holidays which nobody did as it's like 5 months before the exams, i started revising about a month or two before they started and came out with 10 passes lowest one B.
It depends on how confident you are in how much you know, don't start worrying about it yet but at Christmas if you think crap i think im gonna do crap because i'm crap in those crap practise test thingy's, then you can start revising. But if it's all going good i'd do the same as me and just start revising a few months before. safe

[edible]

When you do start revising, take 15 minute breaks every so often, like an hour or 2, cos otherwise it'll just go in one ear and out the other.
Take notes.
Make up little mnemonics like Luke said, i remember when I was in year 7, my science teacher use to teach all these things to us like this one -
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.
cheesy, i know.
But thats how I remembered the order the planets went in.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

Also, Im a girl, and I use my mirror in the morning a bit, whilst I get ready, do my hair and that, and I stuck post-it notes around the mirror and as I was doing that I read them.
Draw big attractive posters, with like all information on.
Read them, Cover them, Try and say some of them.
Get your friends or family to test you on them.
Read them before you go to bed, that always helped me.

[today]

People make up that doing GCSE's are really hard, there not.

Tbh i never really tried hard and never revised for the exam's yet i did good. So tbh, stop panicking just listen in lessons [:

[.:.K13ran.:.]

Well im also going into Yr11 in a few days.

I think if you give school your 100% and do Homework/Coursework, and revise hard before the exams you shud do well, Should'nt wory that much about it tbh

[JPARMAR]

Start revision early.. learning the syllabus for 10+ subjects in a short space of time isn't easy.
If you don't understand anything.. ask teachers to figure it out quickly..don't leave it till the last moment.
can't really give many tips on revision because people tend to learn in different ways from each other. Mindmaps worked well for me.
try to experiment with different types of revision eg. plain reading, mindmaps with pictures, pacing up and down a room while revisiong etc to see whats best for you.

good luck mate

[Charles]

Woooowww, you're starting to revise now? I wasn't even thinking about it at the start of Yr 11. I revised for my GCSE's through the revision lessons a couple of weeks before the exams, just pay attention in class and you'll good^^

[God..]

The best advice anybody can give is just lisen, revise for it, and take mock tests.

If you didn't get the GCSE you wanted. You can always go back and do them ;).

[kooldude23]

One of the best methods for revision I think is where you get a page in a text book/your notes book and you write it out taking out the unimportant parts. Then with this new page you just wrote, write it out again taking out more information. Keep going untill you get about a paragraph of solid knowledge. All the writing out helps you to memorise what you are reading.

Once that is done you have great revision material, break it up into sentences and use post-it notes and posters and things to drill it in.

Good luck in year 11 ;D