A Students Guide To Revision

If like me, you are a student who finds it hard to defeat the demons of laziness and procrastination and actually crack open a book,then this article is for you. So here are some golden rules i have formulated over my experence of revision:

1 - Clean your room!
It may seem like a procrastination method, but once you start studding you need to have enough room to study, and you dont need any distractions.

2 - Organize your work
If you have 5 exams, split up all your revision material into 5 piles. Place them on your floor in order of date of the exam. This gives you an easy way to tell how far you have gotten in your revision.

3 - Read and Take Notes.
Phase one of revision, you should read though all of your notes, you probably have a lot of them, but read thought them all making notes on the points you didn't know or the point you are unsure of. Do this for each pile on the floor, and now your piles are gone.

4 - Past Exam Papers / Examples
One you have done your first phase of revision you need to test to see what you have learned. Find some revision questions, either in the back of text books, past exam papers, or old tutorial questions. Do all that you can without looking at the notes you have made, but if you find a question you cannot do, imagine you are in an exam and write what you would write, and place a star next to that answer so when you revise later you will know what you need to look up.

Night Before the Exam:
1 - Look back at the notes you made
2 - Get a good nights sleep - there is not point in letting your hard work go to waste because you are tired.

One golden rule to keep you motivated. Keep to this guideline for revision 2 hours of revision = 1 hour break. Try to do maybe 4 hours a day up to a week before your exam, that way you will get loads done, and wont feel like you have been working too hard.

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