HOW TO REVISE HISTORY?!?!?

[hah]

omg i hate this subject so much lol
i have four books to revise.......ive gone through them and chosen i topics im gunna concentrate on but i dont get how to revise for it lol.......i have essays done out on topics but some of the stuff wont stick in my head
help
+rep to help

[immense]

lol ive been revising history today and yday. basically i read through everything, make notes then read my notes. if you know specific topics, like for example

ireland potato famine (lol)

think of the causes then do mind maps
then write a conclusion for each topic rather than writing out essays

i love historyyyyyyyyyy and i always get As in it so listen to me ;l

[MrPinkPanther]

Irish cant grow potatoes lolololololol

[hah]

not even doing that in history tbh lol
but yeah thanks illl try that because learned off essays isnt working for me and i have so little time
+rep

need to sprea ul for u LOL


yes we can flyduo
you aint seen out farming skills

[immense]

lmao i remember learning about an irish potato famine once

great fun

[Axel]

I'm wondering how I'll revise History to this year... for Maths is easy, it's just reading through all of the formulas and lots of practicing questions. For History, how I revised last year for AS was... not revising at all until the day before, then looking up everything on Wikipedia and spending like 8 hours revising. And somehow, I came out with full marks in the Germany/Spain paper and 90% in the British paper. ;/

[immense]

omg that's u josh and rozi who said +rep and didn't give it

fgs peeps i have like 200 points... TIGHT.

[MrPinkPanther]

yes we can flyduo
you aint seen out farming skills

have to, i know an irish person who plays farmville, she's crap.

[hah]

my farm was great until i got bored of it (H)
but yeah
anyone else got more tips

[Becca]

why don't you try doing a mind map ;s
(spider diagram) do the topic in history that you're doing then on a line put things like the dates and stuff while you're writing it it'll probs end up in ur head etc. do a one or two for each book. i don't know if it would help but it helped my sister.

[lorren]

im having this problem...and im 13. history gcse on wednesday:(

[cocaine]

for the british history AS exam just gone i made notes with sharpies and stuff and put them on the wall. make them colourful so they'll stick in your mind.

[-:Undertaker:-]

History is the easiest subject to revise for - I dont like mind maps so I just list everything to each persons reign/time. So for example that'd be Tsar Alexander II - listed dates + facts/events and the same then goes for Tsar Alexander III, Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin.

[Banana Pancakes]

I do the other history course, Charles V and all that shizzle.
Basically, I just read through my notes, that's it.

[Shar]

Use flash cards they really help, it helps by breaking down each section :)

[Geraint]

Just gone read over my notes and do some past papers.

[Grig]

You should have the typical kinda of questions that come up in exams and revise how you'd structure those. With what each para would cotain. Look at past exam questions, often a lot of them are quite similair concepts and they just reword the questions. There usually are about a few set questions that can come up for each topic, you could even predict what would come up that hasn't come up in years.

If you know what to write for each typical paragraph in a essay then your good becuase I know just reading pages and pages of history books is always good to obtain information, yet won't ever translate too well into the actual history exam.