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"Revision Help"

Making my revision timetable tonight starting Monday. I need some help by tomorrow.

Well, basically. I was thinking because I get in at 2:30. Revise from 3:30 to 5:30, then eat, then go out or do whatever I wanted.

3:30-5:30, revise for an hour each on 2 different subjects, splitting the hours up into either 30mins with 10min brakes. Or 15mins with 5min brakes.

Or should I revise at a later time? Or does it not make a difference? Or, I could revise that and then go over my notes in the evening sometime for about 15mins?

Any help would be great thanks.

-GªsMªs|<

(l33t me =p)

We had some bloke in as well. Weird also.
Blabbed on (for the whole day) about revision techniques.

Can't remember a word he said now.
How's that for irony?

Some wierd bloke came in to give us some talk about revising or something. Anyway, he said that if you have different areas (ie. lying on your bed for one subject, sitting at your desk for another, etc.) to revise for each subject you're more likely to remember stuff...

Sounded like utter rubbish to me. But you never know...

The best thing to remeber is that:
"It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you do SOMETHING"

Just pick up the nearest book when you've nothing to do and start revising - it'll all help you in the end. Timetables just give you an excuse to put things off.

I think it is easier to revise on a morning, you are more awake and stuff.

Revising two hours a night is a lot to start with, start with an hour a night and add 15 minutes every weeek so within 4 week you'll be doing two hours.

Just do one subject at a time otherwise you will get confused and die.

If you are tired don't revise that night.

Only do more revision on a weekend, do about 2/3 hours on one weekend day and leave the other one free to frolic and clear your head.

Good luck :-D

You know the BEST way to revise? Make notes. For sociology, I went through about 50/60 pages of my notes and shortened it all down to a few lines. Your teacher should have told you what they're likely to ask in the exams, so get that info and condense it. I had a piece of A4 paper, folded, holding my work together which had everything I needed to know about Marxism and, um... other stuff I can't even remember (shows that revising is only short term, one year later and I've forgotten it ALL)

I've done some revision- all maths though. Why did I choose Hstory AND Geography?

Urgh.

ICT, PE GCSE, Maths, RE, English, Science, French, Electronics.

In no order. French and RE suck so I wont revise them much anyways. So 20mins revision with 5min brakes for an hour on one subject then the same for a different one? Then go over my notes in the evening like for a few minutes so it doesn't all go into thin air. What you rekon?

I told myself I'd start revising from tomorrow (had one week holiday, so far, so I figure now it's time to do some work... Though I did go to a maths revision day on Thursday...)

Apparently after 10-15 mins I think it is, you stop taking stuff in so efficiently. So I'd go with 15-20 min revision sessions with 5-10 min breaks. What subjects are you revising for btw...? I find something like Maths easiest to revise as you can simply try to do a bunch of questions, if you can't do them look back for the method, then figure out what you're doing wrong. Revising stuff like History sucks as I found out last year for GCSEs...

Mmm.. well I'm not too clever and I need good grades. So I need to revise!

People actually do revision timetables? I thought it was just one of those "things" they tell you to do, but don't actually expect you to do it.

I revised like a melon farmer for my A2 exams, got As and Bs. Too bad my overall grades came out as Cs. Ah well, at least I proved (to myself) that I can work when I want to.