Revision Techniques

[Empired]

With exam season fast approaching once more, I was wondering what different techniques people use for revision.

I started my revision 6 weeks ago because I need time to get everything sorted and I just like to write things out neatly, highlight and go over and over. Then I annoy my mum in the last week or so before exams (so now lol) by teaching her about my subjects to see how much I've learned, and give her the revision sheets I've made to test me on what I know.

What do you do to revise?

[Absently]

I write all my notes out completely, then once I'm finished I go over them with a different colour pen and write my own personalised notes coming out of them and come up with little words and sentences. Then try and write questions I think will come up and answer them as best as I can.

[Alysha]

I hate spider diagrams/mind maps or whatever you call them with a passion. I avoid them at all costs.

I'm pretty simple, I go for creating little cards with all key points relating to that topic and then trying to expand on the knowledge that I have. I always make them before I've started revising, so that I go out of my way to revise the things I don't know. I'll try to colour code different topics.

When I was revising for my history exams, I would memorise all the dates that anything happened on and it was so useful when searching for answers in the exam.

[Empired]

I hate spider diagrams/mind maps or whatever you call them with a passion. I avoid them at all costs.
Omg same! I absolutely hate them and just find them so messy- I like bullet points and lists.

I'm the same with memorising as well. I have a really good memory and just can remember stuff without even really trying so that works in my favour x

[welshcake]

I write all my notes out completely, then once I'm finished I go over them with a different colour pen and write my own personalised notes coming out of them and come up with little words and sentences. Then try and write questions I think will come up and answer them as best as I can.
When I had exams this is basically what I did too

[Elegance]

I buy revision cards and print off the specification for each of my subjects then put one bullet point from the specification on each revision card and highlight it on the specification once I've finished making the revision card for this.
To revise French I've been going on Habbo.fr oops :'(

[James]

I didn't really revise too much, woops.
When I did, I just did past papers and read through my notes a few times.

[Zak]

I used to write down loads of notes then get someone to go through them with me. Most of it was logic so they could modify the question easily and I would have to work it out.

[Monotonous]

I just go through my workbooks, make formula sheets and then do past papers (for science). I haven't made many notes for my exams tbh I just used ones I found online and added to them. History I just did past papers and looked at old questions and planned them (they are a finite amount of questions so they are usually repeated/similar). I found that I already knew most stuff since we have been doing it for 2 years. But I know others make spider diagrams and flash cards but I don't find them useful.

[MotorStefan95]

I would normally write out all my notes then look over them then continue to look over them everyday until the exam. However I was only told about my exams last week and literally thrown revision notes this week. So my strategy is to now look over all my notes and write down the key points to make a more simplified version of the notes I was given by my lecturers.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I usually find writing things out in list form helps me. If I don't write things out and just look at a PC screen then it doesn't work.