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How to Revise the Smart Way
So you’ve bought the revision guides, and you’ve got highlighter pens galore. You come up with a timetable and the record cards are piled up to make flashcards. You sit down at your desk and your mind goes blank. What should you start with? What if it doesn’t work.
Here’s my top tips to help you revise in a way that works for you:
Understand your learning style
We are all different. You need to make sure that you are working and revising in a way that works best for you. Here’s a few ideas for the VARK learning styles:
Visual – mind map with colours, find visual representations of things. I like this.
Auditory – record your revision as a voice note and listen back to it. Use songs.
Reading/Writing – Write out what you are learning and read it back to yourself.
Kinesthetic – Try and do something else whilst you are studying. Use flashcards which you turn over to see a definition or answer.
Need to find our your learning style? Get my free VARK learning style questionnaire here
Use practice questions
Practice, practice, practice makes perfect, or so they say. Well maybe not perfect but you will definitely begin to understand and feel more comfortable with similar questions. You’ll also learn from your mistakes.
I always recommend getting a workbook alongside your revision guide so that you have plenty of practice questions. If you don’t know which revision guide to get for maths, then written a handy guide, for less than the price of a coffee!
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Another place to get practice questions are websites and apps. I’ve written handy guides for them too. Why not get the bundle of all three guides for less than a fiver!
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Learn the language
Every subject has its own vocabulary that you need to understand and be able to use. Maths is no different and learning the language is so important. I wrote a blog post on this.
Keep a vocabulary book, so you can record the meanings of words. You can also play hangman with a friend with maths words.
I recommend that you learn the spellings even though you don’t get tested on them, as you will feel more comfortable using the word. I once set the password to a maths website for my school to isosceles. I was hated for a time but it had the desired effect!
Secure your weaknesses
Don’t spend time going over what you know. Be smart and focus on what you don’t know. It doesn’t matter how easy that is, if you don’t know your timestables get learning them now! Go back to basics and shore up that foundation.
Go back over what you learn
Last week I wrote all about the forgetting the curve. Make sure that you are using the forgetting curve, and revisiting your learning. The time you spend on a topic can reduce, but if you don’t revisit it you are likely to not remember it all.
For even more hints and tips on revising read these blog posts.
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