what's your revision method?

[Kyle]

Once I read something and understand it it's pretty much there forever, so I go over my annotations of lectures after each class, type them out as short as possible (pref 1 side of a4) and file them away until I need to recall them. I do research for and write a lot of essays in preparation for essay-based exams. I tend to do all of my 'revision' no more than 1-2 weeks after learning, that way I have very little to stress about and don't need to be one of those people with neatly written colour-coded timetables forcing them to revise for X amount of time per day leading up to exams and can get drunk instead.

[Sho]

I write lists. For some reason my brain likes lists so I rewrite lists over and over until I remember them word by word lmao


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[Matt]

When I'm doing study notes I have to be in a group so I know it's right (and I feel more comfortable comparing notes with others). When I'm actually wanting to take it all in, I need to be on my own and in a totally quiet environment. I can only ever do /study/revision/any of my uni work at all if I'm at home. I find it so hard to complete assignments in the library or at Uni - I'm like a child and get distracted at everything.

[Matthew]

last minute all the way

nah but it depends on the subject. For my a level/gcse history I just used the notes i'd made in class and condensed them and did lots of essay practice. For maths, didn't do anything at home, just the past papers we did in class. Further maths, did a fair amount of past papers at home and economics I just read through the text book the night before lol

poor revision methods i know but it worked (thankfully).

[buttons]

so if am revising for an exam/presentation it goes:

- write out every point from the slides of the topic im going to write about/talk about
- condense each point into a word/few words
- try to write an essay using these words

then:
- from the essay, try to remember the key words used
- match them with the original key words used
- memorise the ones i missed

then final stage:
- keep writing an essay from memory
- forget some important things in the essay/presentation anyway.

[Elegance]

well rosie when doing my french gcse and a-lvl revision i found it very useful to keep rewriting out lines until i learnt huge paragraphs and even whole essays word for word which was quite useful for writing and speaking exams

also instead of paper flashcards you could use the app quizlet which is AMAZING and you will learn lots of vocab in no time

and yes i can't do revision around other people but i do like a bit of background noise or music

for my french vocab i write flashcards with 1 french word and the english translation on each side then i get a family member to test me on them but i know some people in my class all have a group or something on quizlet where one person puts all of the vocab into the app and everyone else uses it, i might try that in future cos the way i do it is so time consuming & i also have written out loads of french essay phrases and i have a book called mot á mot which basically has loads of a-grade phrases written in for you to use, then for each topic that we do i have a like a pour/contre list of arguments which really helps me when i need to write essays but i struggle so much trying to revise/learn tenses and grammar concepts

[lemons]

for my french vocab i write flashcards with 1 french word and the english translation on each side then i get a family member to test me on them but i know some people in my class all have a group or something on quizlet where one person puts all of the vocab into the app and everyone else uses it, i might try that in future cos the way i do it is so time consuming & i also have written out loads of french essay phrases and i have a book called mot á mot which basically has loads of a-grade phrases written in for you to use, then for each topic that we do i have a like a pour/contre list of arguments which really helps me when i need to write essays but i struggle so much trying to revise/learn tenses and grammar concepts

yes all sounds very good i had mot á mot as well but never used it lol i was so awful at grammar and tenses but there are some good conjugating apps, most you have to pay for all the tenses but should help

[scottish]

my method was to skip every lecture, the day before the exam read the lecture notes, take my own notes based off those and after about 5 hours go back to whatever game I was playing at the time.

[lawrawrrr]

I used to write and rewrite everything. My learning methods were way better tactile, I have a bit of a photographic memory too so I remembered where things were on a page. I used to use tons of different colours and make it all pretty! I'd then either stick it on my walls so I'd keep looking at it or have them in flashcards which I'd re-read.

I'm very glad I don't have to revise any more.


oh, here's a pic of all I wrote out from revising for my AS levels....

[-:Undertaker:-]

i usually just write out important points and memorise a page of them so when i go in exam i write them down first in a list and refer back to them when i need them