There's no way you can escape it. Exams are a part of life that apparently determine what you can and can't do when it comes to looking for work. I wish I could make an argument that this isn't the case but in pretty much every human being on the planets case, their grades mean what sixth form/college/university course/job they can do when they're older.
If you're in Year 11, like me, you will know that exams are less than a month away. This means more work, more revision, less sleep and more panic. It also means out teachers working us harder than ever to try and teach us everything we need to know and to get our target grades and possibly above.
So, here are some of my top tips on how to revise. You might already do some of these but I just thought they might be helpful to you:
1. Take Frequent Study Breaks
Revising a lot in one go isn't efficient because your brain won't be able to take in all of that information. So my advice is to revise in small bursts of 20-30 minutes and then take a 5-10 minute break. What I do is revise for 30 minutes and then watch a YouTube video that's about 5-10 minutes long and then do another half an hour and the cycle repeats. I usually revise for a total of 3 hours.
2. Get Plenty Of Rest
If you think that the night before your exam you will benefit better by getting no sleep and revising all night instead then you can think again. If you go without sleep then your brain won't be able to function properly in the exam and you are less likely to remember everything you spent all night revising for. It's much better to get a full nights sleep to make sure you're absolutely ready for your exam. You can always quickly go over your notes in the morning.
3. Set A Time
When revising, the best thing to do is to make sure you know how much time you should be revising for each day. You don't need to revise for the whole day because that will probably make you go insane. As I said earlier, I normally try to revise for 3 hours each day which kind of seems like a lot but I'm normally awake for 12 hours+ each day so 3 hours is nothing. Obviously if your exam is the next day you might want to revise a little more than that but on average, I'd say no more than 3-4 hours of revision a day.
4. Make A Revision Plan
Something that will help motivate you to revise will be a revision plan. You can plan ahead of what you're going to revise and when you're going to do it. I normally plan a month at a time to make sure that my revision plan is up to date and as I get closer to my exams, revise the subjects that I have first. For example, up until about May half term I'm only going to revise the exams I have before then (as well as one or two others that are in the first week after half term) to make sure I get enough done.
5. Practice Papers
Your teachers may have already told you this but by doing practice papers you're able to get a feel of what the questions will be like in your exam. Obviously they won't be the exact same questions but they might be similar and practice papers can also help you practice your timing. Timing can be an issue (it is with me) in exams so the more practice you get, the better you'll be with it. Treat the practice paper like it's your real exam so don't spend any longer on it then it says on the paper.
So there are my five top tips to get through revision. At some point I am going to write a post about what to do on the day of your exam and during the exam so look out for that!
Apart from that I would like to say thank you for reading this post and I am so so sorry that it's so late.
If you have any other queries about revision then please don't be afraid to ask. And if you have another revision tip that you'd like to share then please comment down below. I'm in the same boat as you and I want us all to come out with the grades we want.
Good luck with revision!
Love Beth xx
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