Effective Revision Strategies for Academic Success
Learn about effective revision techniques, how to gauge your revision progress, challenges faced during revision, and the importance of organization and focus in successful revision. Explore memory and encoding processes in revision for improved academic performance.
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Y11 Mantra Be selfish for my grade 2
Do Now On a MWB, answer the following questions then discuss with your tutor. 1. How do you usually revise? 2. How do you know if your revision is successful? 3. What do you find difficult when revising? 4. What would you like more support with in terms of revision? 3
Purposes of the Session 1. What does effective and successful revision look like? 2. How does revision actually work? 3. How do you revise? 4. Where do you start? 4
What does effective and successful revision look like? Revision should be organised. MONA TUESA WEDSA THURSA FRIA SUBJECT English Maths Science Spanish History FOCUS Keyquotesfor LadyMacbeth Shape Energy Regularpresent tense Religion in Elizabethan society MONB TUESB WEDSB THURSB FRIB SUBJECT English Maths Science Design & Technology Geography FOCUS Historical contextof AIC Graphs Humannervous system Technical Principles Erosion 5
What does effective and successful revision look like? TASK: with the person next to you, discuss what other key foci you will need to revise for each of your subjects. MONA TUESA WEDSA THURSA FRIA SUBJECT English Maths Science Spanish History FOCUS MONB TUESB WEDSB THURSB FRIB SUBJECT English Maths Science Design& Technology Geography FOCUS 6
What does effective and successful revision look like? Revision should be challenging. 7
What does effective and successful revision look like? Revision should be focussed. 8
How does revision actually work? Memory 9
How does revision actually work? Encoding Consolidation Storage Retrieval 10
How do you revise? Familiar Revision Activities Retrieval Activities New Activities Elaborative Leitner Flash Cards Quizzes interrogation Cornell Notes Retrieval by writing Concept maps from Self-explaining Seneca memory Concrete examples Revision Guides and Dual coding Workbooks Knowledge Dump 11
RetrievalActivities: 1. Quizzes 1. Who was Macbeth written by? Answer: Shakespeare 13
RetrievalActivities: 3. Concept Maps from Memory Who was Mac Bethad, historically? What genre of play is Macbeth? Macbeth: Context Where did Shakespeare s version originate from? When was the play most likely written? What is the plot partly based on? 15
Summary 1. Effective and successful revision should be organised, challenging and focussed. 2. Training your memory to recall and retrieve a range of information at different times makes those memories more secure. 3. Retrieval activities are easy to practise: quizzes, retrieval by writing, concept maps and knowledge dumping! 17
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