I do this. Turn everything in the house off except my pc. Unplug my internet. Open up a new Word Document. From the website, make short notes on each part, but make different parts different colors. Eg, Enzyme structure = green, diffusion red. The colors allow you to relate to them in the exam, so if a question on diffusion comes up, you have to think about the color red, and you should remember some stuff. Also, I use music to revise. I can't revise with silence..If you're the same, don't listen to new music, listen to songs you already know, because if you listen to new stuff your ears will pick up on new parts to the new music, and it creates a distraction. After making my notes, I usually read each section to a SEPERATE song. In the past, saying the lyrics to a song has jogged my memory about certain topics. Using all of this stuff, I remembered 2 years worth of AS level philosophy.
Make small revision prompt cards from your main notes - a few sentences max for each point.
Once you're familier with these condense them to even shorter notes - a few words from each sentence.
This teaches your brain to associate these words with the longer sentences and paragraphs.
Working for me at the moment. I'm in the middle of my A2 exams.
Once you're familier with these condense them to even shorter notes - a few words from each sentence.
This teaches your brain to associate these words with the longer sentences and paragraphs.
Working for me at the moment. I'm in the middle of my A2 exams.
Shadowstrike that seems pretty good actually, just wish i had more than a black pen, i'll get a pack of pens tommorow and try that as i'm doing exactly that except for the different colours at the moment.
windows media player: currently playing:- Hey Johnny Park, the colour and the shape.
@James, i used that t oa small extent with law but i think there's to much to write on each thing biology for that to be viable + fairly large and dying spider like hand writing.
windows media player: currently playing:- Hey Johnny Park, the colour and the shape.
@James, i used that t oa small extent with law but i think there's to much to write on each thing biology for that to be viable + fairly large and dying spider like hand writing.
lowl there was a thread just like this last year. Get some friends and have a study group one night at someone's place. Make sure you invite a nerd who can teach you everything.
Me and my mate are both geeks, we are both screwed in the same manner except he's decided not to retake module 1 like i did, git. Besides it would just turn into a random dossing / having a laugh night.Aries_37 wrote:
lowl there was a thread just like this last year. Get some friends and have a study group one night at someone's place. Make sure you invite a nerd who can teach you everything.
I just have to look at things logically and make it make sense to myself, or try and relate things one way or another.
If its a topic that isn't logical or illogical I just have to find parallels with something that is, or something I am so familiar with that I won't forget anyways.
Also last minute cramming.
If its a topic that isn't logical or illogical I just have to find parallels with something that is, or something I am so familiar with that I won't forget anyways.
Also last minute cramming.
Easy:
Taking notes, doing past exam papers and starting early rather than cramming. You digest the information rather than very temporarily just store it.
I found that especially with IB biology I did better because I studied over a period of time.
Taking notes, doing past exam papers and starting early rather than cramming. You digest the information rather than very temporarily just store it.
I found that especially with IB biology I did better because I studied over a period of time.
Revise by reading your notes or whatever.Then:
Highlight keywords.Learn them by heart.Write them.
Highlight keywords.Learn them by heart.Write them.
I think the key in all of this is what ever method you use, write something down. Do not just read it because most people learn nothing from reading.
Lol, u obviously never had to learn more than 10 pages, try getting 500 pages of economics done in 30 minutes, good luck to you sir.SamTheMan:D wrote:
just read through your notes 30 mins beforehand
its pointless revising or doing stupid mock questions days before the test
it just annoys you
Put your books under the pillow when u sleeping before the exam...
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For the module you're doin, get a load of pat papers, work through until you find something you dont know how to do, then work through it with the aid of a textbook, then do some more questions on it until it sticks.
Jut reading stuff will never work, you actually have to do it
Jut reading stuff will never work, you actually have to do it
Ive always been shit at revising, just can't really be arsed. What I found for me was the best thing was going through the course notes and writing it out into a more compressed form, then doing the same again, it embeds it in your mind.
Or just read the required text over and over again, of course thus depends on what you are studying.Markooo*Est wrote:
Put your books under the pillow when u sleeping before the exam...
Good luck neverless cuz